Between the months of September through the end of November, I have attempted and failed at making over a dozen loaves of pumpkin bread. The goal was to have one for the morning of Thanksgiving as a nice treat while everyone waited for supper to be ready. The search for pumpkin bread started in...
For now, I have no recipe to share on choux pastry. But I will show you how my attempt at learning how to make choux pastry for the first time in my life. Remember, I have a right arm, my dominant side, that cannot bend or move in most ways. It was indeed a challenge! One day, I may try again. But...
Thank you all for sticking with me on this fabulous journey on learning how to not make french macarons. I remember being in school and being told WD40 was named as such because it took them 40 tries to get the end product. Something about that story makes me persist when I want to give up. It was...
Okay, if you have stuck with me on this rather long journey, you have stamina! I know, it's exciting to find that we were so close on the last attempt but not quite there. Perhaps today will be the day! After all, we are going to attempt to fix it by heating the egg whites. Every time a mishap...
If you are following along, this is lesson #10 of my macaron mishaps. I will call this one renewed hope. Last time I attempted the world's most difficult cookie, I nearly gave up. Every mistake possible happened in that last batch. But then something amazing happened. After finding out my oven's...
By using a second oven thermometer, you will avoid over-baked or under-baked goods. This cheap investment will save you hundred in wasted ingredients. Let me explain by sharing my plight. Feeling defeated over the nine failed attempts of macarons, I decided to make shortbread. The easiest cookie...
Ever since I started trying to make macarons, there have been so many goof ups. Macaron mishaps I like to call them and this is a series of posts about my learning to make macarons and how with failure, you get ever so closer to success. Today, every mistake possible was the result. Let's recap....
More adventures of macaron mishaps. For those that haven't been following along, I decided to learn how to make macarons and it's not going as planned. Let me tell you, I failed the "no fail, guarantee!" recipes. So I started documenting my progress. Coming over from lesson seven, I have decided...
The last lesson of macaron mishaps was an invaluable one. Doing basic research is always a good thing when learning how to make anything new. So my first thought was to begin by adjusting the temperature higher. Perhaps it was too low since I had baked them for nearly 20 minutes prior and the...
More of the story behind learning how to make macarons develops below. I decided to spend the evening researching the recipe for the french macaron after last time. There had to be an answer to cracking the code on these gorgeous elusive cookies. Everywhere I read or watched, they spoke about how...
Still continuing my lessons on how to make a macaron, I decided to remove one of the variables and make a plain old cookie. After all, I was determined to make this cookie even if it took me years. I had plenty of time and eggs. And there was a sale on almond flour. Batch after batch of broken...
Continuing my lesson on the search for the perfect macaron, I will now discuss footless and puffy cookies. Since I'm now trying this for the fourth time, I'm getting smart. Starting by taking notes, pictures of the process and changing only one thing at a time.I took the time to weigh the...
Cracks and domes, flat and hollow, expect the unexpected when learning to bake a french macaron. Macarons are indeed a finicky little sandwich cookie. It's not called the world's most difficult cookie to be cute. It took me lots of tries to crack this little beast. I decided to document these...
While learning to make macarons, there are going to be many macaron mishaps for the typical baker. Perhaps you've already read part one of this series on my journey of learning to make the most difficult cookie? I call this learning period Macaron Mishaps. This is the story of making hollow...
Join me in my journey of learning how to make macarons. Macaron Mishaps Speckled and Suntanned is part one and it gets funnier as time moves on. Eventually, I cracked the code on how to make macarons, but it took a while. In the meantime, enjoy my mishaps so you can perhaps avoid them altogether....