But with Ben home for a few days while Uncle Duck visits, not only do I have an extra mouth to feed treats to, I also have a bit of spare time with with extra baby-adorers in the house. An extra person to eat the treats AND hold the baby? Bake-a-palooza!
I've made several attempts to get Duck's opinion on what would be good to make, but he's pretty easy to please, so just about anything would make him happy. He did, however, mention that the macarons that I made before looked good. Aha! I was off and running with flavor ideas and we all agreed that chocolate macarons, half with vanilla butter cream and half with coffee buttercream, would be a great idea.
What do you think?
I used the same recipe for macarons that I had used before, with the addition of 3 tablespoons Valrhona cocoa to make them extra chocolate-y. And for the buttercream I used this recipe here. I split the recipe in half and scraped a vanilla bean into the vanilla batch and for the coffee flavor I dissolved 1 tablespoon espresso powder in the 1 tablespoon heavy cream that I added in.
And they were good. Fudgy but light and puffy and the buttercream was magnifique.
My mind is already racing toward the next batch and new flavors. Any suggestions?
2 comments:
mmmmmm...these looked so yummy today and I was sad that I had to leave them on the plate...stupid swollen jaws!! How about Chocolate with a chocolate-orange ganache?
The saddest day of my life...was when the plate was empty.
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