Saturday, December 27, 2008

Green Tea Macarons

Green Tea Macarons



Baked another bacth of Green Tea Macarons. Successful!!! So Happy!!!

Ingredients
50gm almond powder
100gm icing sugar
5gm green tea powder
25gm icing sugar
50gm egg whites
Temp 150c for abt 6/7mins (Feet form), reduce 10c after every 1min till 100c and baked for total of 22mins
*Sprinkle the 100s & 1000s on the macs before popping them into the oven.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Chocolate Macarons with lemon curd

Chocolate Macarons

The lemon curd goes well with chocolate Mac. This is another bacth I tried today. Nearly half got no feet. Don't know what went wrong.

Ingredients
10g cocoa powder

50g Almond powder

80g icing sugar

25gm castor sugar

50gm egg white

Temp: 150c for 18mins

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Coconut Macarons with lemon curd

Coconut Macarons

This is coconut macaron filled with lemond curd. Another attempt with fine feet. Happy still!
The recipe is adapted from 'I love Macaron'. Instead of using coconut powder. I used dessicated coconut (toast & grind)

Ingredient
20gm Coconut powder
50gm Almond powder
50gm egg white
80gm icing sugar
25gm castor sugar
Temp 150c for abt 7mins (Feet form), reduce 10c after every 1min till 100c and baked for total of 22mins


Friday, December 5, 2008

Lemond Curd


Still have some yolks left in the fridge. Other then using it for fried rice, I used it for lemon curd which can be use for mac later on. Happy!!! Finally can try out new cream for my mac.


LEMON CURD

Ingredient

20gm corn flour
30gm sugar (Original 50gm)
100gm water
1 egg yolk
2Tbsp lemon
1/2 lemon zest


Method

1) In a saucepan mixed corn flour and sugar together
2) add in water and stirred the mixture
3) Bring (1)(2) to boil under small fire and stirred continously till translucent.
4) turn off fire and stirred in the yolk
5) add lemon juice and zest
6) Serve when cool

Coffee Macaron


This is the 11th attempt: Coffee Macaron...very untidy feet. Look more like UFOs.....
Coffee Macaron
Ingredients
2 Tsp instant coffee powder
60gm almond powder
50gm egg white
100gm icing sugar
25gm castor sugar
Temp: 160c abt 18-20 mins