The key is to use as finely ground almonds as you can get.

(I think I over beat the mixture, but we'll never know for sure.) Humble's seminal French Macaron 101 to try and trouble shoot my failed slut macs. Out came the food colouring and violet liqueur, and I re-read Ms. As I was just giving up, the Purple Rain Lamingtons jumped out at me, tantilizingly, from the side of the page. (And no, you can't see them - I deleted the photos.) But needing inspiration and being short on time (I had exactly one day before leaving on another trip, my first since the ash disaster - fingers crossed we have no repeats of that!), I decided to trawl the net for some ideas. I just ate them, right off the baking sheet, and moved on. My first time must have been pure luck these are tempermental cookies!Īnyway, I wasted no time on the failed pinkies. Which were also strange shapes - turns out you were right, Mardi. His are basically the street walkers of the macaron world! I first thought to try to turn out a batch of hot pink macaron shells, and sandwich them with a spicy, cinnamon infused slut-red ganache, but I didn't add enough colouring to the macaron batter and ended up with cherry blossom coloured macarons. I mean, have a look at what Pierre Hermé gets away with. The only ones that repeatedly caught my attention (and still do) were the Purple Rain Lamingtons they were so delicious.Īs a tribute to Delicious Delicious Delicious' latest puff quote, I wanted my next batch of home made macs to be 'an explosion of colour', too, like the ones you see in the food halls of trendy department stores.

Then I added more pictures and forgot about the lams for a while. It started with the lamingtons, because making them was such fun that I wanted a permanent reminder of those crazy coconut and crumb filled blue-gray Winter days on the blog's front page. The pictures I choose to border the text on my blog are the ones I am relatively happy with (you all know of my ongoing struggles with lighting and basic inability to take a decent shot of anything I make) and don't really want to forget about. The man who spends ages trying to make his food look pretty forgets about it once it is up here on show. But it's true that there is a lot of colour in the sidebars, and do you know what? I tend to forget it's there. Since its birth last year, the blog has had a fair few different looks - three columns, two columns, three columns again, several different templates. A friend recently told me that Delicious Delicious Delicious has undergone a makeover and is now 'an explosion of colour.' I didn't really know what she meant, but I suppose actually the description is fair.

Yamy xox five nights at pinkies