macaron update

I made another batch of macarons this weekend with great success!

It took half a day to make a batch on my own.  I did half a batch of mango ganache filling and half batch of red bean paste filling.

The mango ones turned out perfect, but the red bean paste ganache didn't chill long enough and was runny at first.  The red bean ones were also on parchment paper instead of the silpat and also came out mis-shapened.

I had no problems with oven bake times.  I put the oven on 300 degrees and baked the biscuits in the top-middle rack about 16 minutes total.

The macarons were good but still a bit too sweet.  I think next time we can cut back on the powered sugar and compensate for the same amount of almond meal so the dry mass stays the same.

Oh and here's a recipe I found from a blog and it has pink bunny macarons.  Cute.  I will try to do some fun shapes again soon, but a bit differently.


Easter Bunny Macarons

yay!

Finally starting a new blog so I can keep try of my side projects and motivate myself to work on them.

Here's the list so far:
1. Eu Care - silkscreening for charities
2. Comics (with working titles)
- Dreamwalkers
- Tin Si City
- learn to use Manga Studio
3. Screenplay/Storyboard
4. Programming
- Comic layout/reading tool
- Story Pie
5. Facebook Apps
6. Personal Web Site
7. Sewing
- Aprons
- Monogram napkins
- plushies
8. Give Matt hair
9. Wall art
- Bruce Lee
- Tree and birds
- Mario
10. Giclee printing