DIY OF THE WEEK

RANDOM FACTS ABOUT MACARONS


Soundtrack: Sweet for my sweet - The Searchers

• Macaron is a meringue based sweet confectionary. Largely made from egg-whites and ground almonds.

• Dates back to 1533, they were simple cookies back then.
• Was made popular to the general population by famous French pastry shop Ladurée. They were the first to sandwich the cookies and gave it a filling.
• The fancy way of calling the filling is: ganache - like guhnaash not ganaachey or geynaychi

• There is a Macaron day and it is on the 20th of March.

• The word macaron derives from the word macaroni or maccherone which means 'fine dough'.

• Macarons are not Macaroons

As best put by this poster from http://idobelieveicamewithahat.com/

Here are some links to cute blogs on macarons:

http://macaron-fetish.blogspot.com/

http://madaboutmacarons.com/

Happy macarons!

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