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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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Le Cordon Bleu (Paris) Experience

I’m not sure how many of you know this, but I was previously in Le Cordon Bleu Paris, where I completed my Basic Patisserie cert. Since then, I’ve gotten several emails & questions here and there about how classes were, accommodation and various other miscellaneous things.

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Hence, I’ve decided to consolidate some of the questions which I felt were most pressing & also talk a bit about my experience. I actually did quite a bit of blogging while I was there (like a day-to-day compilation) so if you’re interested in reading about how I felt at that very point in time, then do hop over to Midi & Me. (more…)

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Turtle Shortbread Cookies

Aloha friends!

As you all know from my Mille Feuille post, I joined the SCS Dairy Bakers’ Challenge, with the hope of making it to the 4-star challenge. I didn’t make it in but did have fun baking something every week (as if I needed an excuse to do so!). The 2-star challenge was based on Cookies. Prior to the third round, I think most of us contestants were kinda confused as to how we were being judged for every round. Hence, everyone kept trying to create exotic & special sort of things related to the theme so that we could really wow the judges.

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I did a whole bunch of Googling & finally found a sort of cookie that I thought would be very unique & stand out from the rest. Turtle cookies! Mind you, this in no way means that I used Turtle to make these cookies. It just simply means that the cookies took on the cute little shape of turtles! It’s probably something similar to what you see on those designed macarons. Pretty and cute, although they taste no different than any other cookies.

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