Chocolate macarons.

The first week of year 2011 is almost gone.....pretty fast, right?
It had been a while that I let my Pinky and my oven stay calm in the kitchen. Time to get back to work!

I had some egg white,cocoa powder and some almonds left from last year. What else could I do besides making macarons.....angel food cake, meringue or pavlova. After thought back and forth, I ended up with macarons (again). I have tried making macarons in many flavours, but the chocolate flavour is still on the top list. Leaving macarons overnight makes it tastes even better.....don't you think so?

I love to tweak the recipe to experiment with this and that , but I seldom do it with macarons. Unfortuantely, I didn't have enough almonds to complete the recipe........no choice, I decided to go ahead with what I had on hand. In the worst case, I would get some sort of chocolate cookies, I guessed!

It seemed like baking luck was with me, I saw the feet came up after 5 minutes of baking. I would love to give my oven a big hug, if I could...ha ha. That's the joy of baking macarons. Why that feet are so important to us !!!!!!!

I just made my life simple today, filled it with salted caramel.

Now I have the reason to go shopping again since there is no more ingredients left for the next batch of my macarons.

Just snapped a few shots to record another flavor combinations of macarons that I did.

Enjoy your beautiful day.