vivre sunday

Last week, made two batches of macarons all at once:

earl grey cookie with chocolate ganache filling
hazelnut cookie with chocolate ganache filling

For the earl grey, I took 2 teaspoons of loose tea and ground it up with the almond and icing sugar. For the hazelnut, the almond volume was halved and replaced by ground hazelnuts. Both [...]

I’ve always avoided eating dried coconut. Macarons, I thought, were the same as macaroons (made from dried coconut), so when I visited Paris last Christmas 2007, the lineup at the Champs Elysées branch of Ladurée wasn’t worth joining. Bah, how great can they be?
But now, since I’ve found out how delicate and pretty these little [...]