Saturday, 24 August 2013

Pink Choco-Burgers ;D

Commonly known to food folk as Macarons :D :D :D
It's such a weird name, Macaron. Like if someone squished the words "car" and "moron" together and said: "There, that's a great name for my dessert." I just did some research on it and was presented with a Wikipedia explanation:
 "The name of the cookie comes from an Italian word meaning paste, maccarone. About the origin, culinary historians claim that macarons can be traced to an Italian monastery of the 9th century. The monks came to France in 1533, joined by the pastry chefs of Catherine de Medici, wife of King Henri II. Later, two Benedictine nuns, Sister Marguerite and Sister Marie-Elisabeth, came to Nancy seeking asylum during the French Revolution. The two women paid for their housing by baking and selling macaron cookies, and thus became known as the "Macaron Sisters".[5] Recipes for macaroons (also spelled "mackaron," "maccaron" and "mackarom") appear in recipe books at least as early as 1725"
 So there you go.

Today I was feeling rather bored and so I made some macarons!
 I also made a mess, but as long as I didn't make a mess of the macarons, it's fine :3
They're actually relatively easy to make. I made around 22 with my sister before finding out we had one shell left over, so I had a little fun with that :)
They tasted good too!

Anyways, on Monday Lady Deathly, Cherry, Mr.Tic Tac and I will be going to Ballarat for choir! I'm mostly looking forward to pokemon card tournaments. Speaking of which...

NOTE TO LADY DEATHLY & MR.TIC TAC:
BRING YOUR CARD DECKS.

That is all,
Pie :3

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, yeah...I'll bring my deck(s?)...

    You made a mistake, those are macarons...macaroons are a different thing...they're similar but different...

    A macaroon is essentially just a biscuit of almonds and egg whites whilst a macaron (what you made) is a 'double' biscuit made of primarily egg whites, sugar, almonds, with a butter cream, ganache or jam filling/centre.

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