Chocolate Macarons

Hi guys!

Today I wanted to show you some macarons I made last night. Now this is a recipe I've been trying to get right for absolutely ages - there is always something I do wrong. This time, yes I got something wrong, which I'll mention later on in the post, but on the whole, they turned out like perfectly acceptable macarons! So if you'd like to make them follow this recipe by David Lebovitz.

First of all a photo of my batter (sorry it wouldn't rotate).

You should whip your eggs only until they start to form peaks. This is a mistake I kept making - I didn't follow the recipe properly but last night I beat the eggs until they became almost like meringue but they were still a little bit gloopy. I also had to use caster sugar as we were out of granulated, but I think this might have actually been a good thing as the egg whites became all shiny and smooth.

Okay, now I'm going to tell you my big mistake. I started piping the macarons and as I got to the very last one, I looked over and realised I'd left about 1/5 of the powder mixture in the other bowl! DUH! So yes, make sure you add all of the mixture unlike me.

Anyway fast forward about 30 minutes and here is my end result

I also salvaged what I could out of the piping bag and added the rest of the powder mixture as I didn't want to waste it. It's erm... interesting.

So those are my macarons! Next time I am going to hopefully do EVERYTHING right.

These are some pictures of an attempt I made last year where they came out almost perfect. Ever since then I've been trying to recreate them and failed.

As you can see I'm trying to find something useful to do in my agonising wait for A level results... and yeah I'm not succeeding in finding much to do. But hopefully these macarons will make me feel better today! 

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Liebster Blog Award

Hi guys! I was given this blog award a VERY long time ago and only just realised recently (if you've read this blog for a long time you'll know by now I'm not exactly the best at doing things on time), so first of all thank you to Abbi of http://abbihau.blogspot.co.uk/ for this. Please go and check out her blog! She has some great product reviews which I've found really helpful, and a recent skin care post which I think is definitely worth a read. 

I think this blog award is a really nice idea as the rules say that you can only give it to 5 blogs with 200 followers or less. Here are the 5 people I choose:

IDOLS CRAVING BALLERINAS - Okay I've cheated slightly because Jess has 208 followers, but it's only slightly over... Anyway I thought Jess deserved some recognition as her blog is definitely one of the most honest and intelligent I've come across over the years. She posts about many many topics, including art, literature, fashion and politics! In a nutshell, Jess is one of my favourite bloggers and has a lot to say that I feel is worth reading.

The Peppy May - I started following this Parisian blogger recently because she really stood out to me as quite unique from what I'd already seen. Also, she's got bloody amazing hair! 

Blackberry Sherbet - Another new find of mine (I can't remember how) - you'll find loads of inspiration posts on here like I have. 

Madison's Assortment - Another blogger with hair that I envy and lots of outfit posts. Check her out!

Sadie Francis - Another new one and one to watch I think :)

Okay so hopefully I can count after doing Maths A Level and that's 5 people! So the people I've "tagged" can pass this award on if they want to, but if they don't, that's fine! To be honest I never really expected to get one and appreciate it but I think the main use of it is finding new and interesting blogs. If you have any recommendations, please let me know as I'm always looking for blogs that aren't just related to fashion (i.e. politics, food, books etc).

x

Exclamation Mark Troubles...

People may have noticed that I have some photos and then a load of exclamation marks. Yeah Picasa decided to delete all of my photos so I'm going to have to just delete them as I don't have all of them backed up :( Pretty sad as those posts with my own photos were some of the most commented on posts! But hey ho, I managed to fix the banner with a new one (what do you think?) and hopefully the rest will be sorted soon.


New post coming today x