My macaron journey

Did you ever wonder how I went from the above macaron #fail to this:

Today I am guest posting on The Merry Gourmet so if you are interested in reading how you, too can strive for (and sometimes even achieve!) macaron perfection, head on over and check out my post!

And just so you know those pretty babies above are not a fluke or a one-off, look at these ones I brought to my lucky colleagues on the last day of school this week:

These succeeded even though I was absolutely exhausted from my Haitian cooking experience with Grade 6, proving that sometimes, going into mac making without too much thought (and fear!) may actually be the trick!!

I hope you enjoy my post!

37 thoughts on “My macaron journey”

  1. You’re inspiring me to make macarons….but I’m waaaaay too nervous! Especially when I have 2 kids always ready to distract me!! Next time, next time…I’ve already saved / bookmarked your macaron recipe!

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  3. Your journey gives me hope that trial and error is the key to success. I learn from my mistakes and thanks to you and other’s encouragement, I’ve gain more knowledge than I could imagine. Thanks.

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  4. ha… I agree, your “fail” macaroons look great to me!! 🙂

    the others are BEAUTIFUL! gorgeous summery colors… I have never attempted, I’d love to try just because it’s another excuse to use color in baking 🙂

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  5. Can I pretend that I had at least a small hand in pushing you to achieve perfect macarons? Oh well, but I am more than proud of you and think your macs are now fabulous!

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  6. What a journey and so well shared. I’m glad we’ve been together for part of it, and can see the feet attaining perfection! One day my ‘FEET’ shall be perfect too, like yours Mardi, I have a dream!! {HUGS} xo

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  7. My, does this fairy tale have a happy ending. Maybe you could make a children’s book about the whole process.

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  8. Having been inspired by so many bloggers I attempted my first batch of macarons 2 days ago – out of 7 trays of macarons I ended up with a grand total of 8 macarons that I considered perfect! I cannot tell you how happy I was. My attempt was a culmination of reading about fails and successes from a range of fantastic bloggers including yourself. I knew all the different things that I could expect both in failure and success and so was not disappointed with the results but was so happy I had achieved a couple of beautiful macarons. Thank you so much for detailing your journey and I hope that like yours, my journey too ends up with such spectacular results.

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  9. MM. We are watching Masterchef Australia and the contestants are in London’s Langham Hotel and they are trying to make – macarons! Is everyone that obsessed with them? They look beautiful!

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  10. Adorable. I lived in Paris for the spring and I had soo many lovely macarons. It was wonderful. Thanks for an inspiring post!

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  11. I posted a comment yesterday which appears to have ended up in that cyber graveyard we all know about but have never seen. My comment was in the form of a question: what’s the attraction for you of a macaron – its taste, its appearance or the clear difficulty in making them? And, if you were able to get a really good macaron in Canada, would you still bother to make them?

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