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Mao Shan Wang Durian Macarons Recipe

So in my last post, I talked about how I made 200 macarons in a day. I also talked about how I made lavender macarons and another macaron flavour with a very strong smell. If you tried to guess, you’d probably have gotten it right. Durian macarons!

Mao shan wang durian macarons

Now, huge disclaimer here: I do not like durian at all. I’ve tried it many times as a kid, as a teenager and have just decided never to eat it anymore since I don’t like it at all. I’m completely fine with the smell and the texture – it’s just not something I really appreciate.

So why durian? Everyone I gave these macarons to asked me that question. Well simply because all (or most) Singaporeans LOVE durian. I sacrificed my lovely hands to reek of durians for the rest of the day just for the sake of macarons. Yellow macaron shells with dessicated coconut I know, I do not believe it myself.  (more…)

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Lavender Macarons

I’m back again with another macaron recipe. Sorry if anyone is bored by this – maybe I should call my blog Macarons are the new black at this rate haha.

Lavender Macarons

Anyway, the Hari Raya weekend just passed in Singapore. It was really awesome to have a 3-day weekend after working for the past 7 weeks. Yet, I decided to optimize the way I’d spend my weekend, arranging for a baking date with Jancy (my #le2petitgirls buddy who went to Le Cordon Bleu with me) on Monday, the public holiday itself.

Ever since our trip to Paris last year, the two of us haven’t really met and while we still bake a lot individually, the last time we baked together was in 2012. We decided to meet on Monday & play around with some fresh & new macaron flavours.

Lavender Macarons

We discussed the flavours over dinner & we were bursting with ideas. We seriously could not settle on just two flavours & kept suggesting new flavours during the days leading up to our baking date. Finally, we decided on two very strong smelling flavours. The first recipe I will share with you is the Lavender one (hint: the other one isn’t quite as nice smelling!). Most recipes we saw online used Lavender paste/essence or only incorporated it into the shells. We didn’t want to pair it with lemon or honey buttercream like most of the recipes do but rather, have a nice lavender buttercream.

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Rose Macarons

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In the past few weeks, I’ve been working on moving my little space to a self-hosted domain. Of course, as a person who has ZERO idea on how to self-host & what not, this wasn’t an easy decision.

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There were several reasons why I made this choice: Firstly, while wp.com offers the option of simply giving me a domain name, I figured that the long-run costs would exceed that of self-hosting. Next, with more reads & followers, I figured it’d be a good time to update the space & give myself the option of having more customization. As much as wp.com offers beautiful free themes & widgets, a self-hosted blog using the wp.org Jetpack allows me to have awesome plug-ins & a whole lot more customization. Also, I didn’t want to build up a whole lot of subscribers to my wp.com & then have to shift them over (I can’t actually do that so they’ll have to do it themselves… a whole lot of trouble). Finally, my Facebook Page has reached that 1000 likes mark. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me, be it my friends, family or just fellow bakers & recipe lovers! (Of course, I wouldn’t want it to be stagnant at 1000 likes – do share the love if you enjoy reading this hehe)

 

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