do you know the the macaron??

My fingers were at the ready. It was the first of October and I was riding high on the back of my puff pastry successes – what would this month bring? I was hoping for something pretty. Something delicate. Something I hadn’t even thought to do before… and then I saw it:
The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.

      chocolate and hazelnut macaron

Don’t get me wrong. I actually rather enjoy making macaron. It’s a calming, methodical process – and the reactions you get to a batch of the freshly baked! Oh! These delicious little morsels can extrude squeals of delight that no cake can (regardless of how multi-faceted and hair-tearingly complex said cake can be to make).

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