Here are pretty flowers Matt sent me for Valentine's Day. Matt was in the States celebrating his mom's birthday and this was better than going out to dinner at a fancy restaurant where the expectations are high and the service is never as good as on a normal day. I prefer to eat at home usually.
Over that same weekend I attempted macarons from Bakerella. These were harder than they looked on her website - getting all the cookies the same size and not touching. Plus I thought I was breeding a bacteria farm keeping the egg whites out for over a day. My new Silpat is a bit bigger than my cookie sheet - so that batch ended up quite ovally.
I was too lazy to make ganache so I just used Nutella and dulce de leche for the gooey middle. DB definitely preferred to dulce... :)
Wow, that macaron looks perfect! My attempts at making them at home never turned out very pretty.
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