It is not entirely a secret that I love baking and I have made macarons for some of the parties I've been invited to. So it wasn't really surprising when one of my university friends asked if I would teach her how to make macarons. I had never before taken the time to teach someone to bake, so I readily agreed and invited her over to my kitchen. Then another class mate overheard and said that she would also love to learn how to make them. I invited her too. In discussing the process and logistics, another friend overheard. The third person was critical mass for me and so I invited all the girls in the Masters maths class to join in on a Macaron Party, as well as a few other friends.
Music from Phantom of the Opera playing in the background, we set to work making a macaron feast. We made raspberry, pistachio, chocolate and lemon. There are bowls of white and dark chocolate ganache, along with the bowls of almond and egg white, featured in the picture above. We also made lemon curd for the lemon macarons. The recipe for macarons that we made can be found in my Halloween Macarons post. It took the whole of the morning and most of the afternoon with a brief recess for a simple lunch of Spaghetti Pomodoro and another for an oven malfunction.
It was a fantastic bonding experience and fast-tracked that awkward getting to know each other phase that new class mates would ordinarily have to go through. While I don't necessarily think any of them will attempt the recipe at home, at least they will be a little more appreciative of the magnitude of the effort it takes the next time they eat a macaron.
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