little bombs

today i tried making macarons again and it is really starting to piss me off. i know there are a billion techniques and whatnot to the process but i was reading other people's blogs and websites and their macarons turned out perfect everytime, where i am still dragging myself along helplessly. this time though they turned out much better and had more of a macaron look to it then my first batch.
i was very determined to do everything right. i 'aged' my eggs and by that i mean shoving them in the microwave, but that is basically the same thing so it should work. i grounded my my already fine almond meal and icing sugar in the food blender, even when i hate loud noises. i sifted it through twice and boy my patience was not very happy. i even dried the mixture in the oven as well. so i was whipping the egg whites and when i had put in all my sugar, i realized that i forgot to halve the sugar quantity so my eggs weren't whipping properly, but never fear i just made them into meringues so i didn't waste it. so there i was whipping the eggs, making sure that i wasn't overbeating the eggs, well i actually don't know how to tell when your eggs are overbeaten so i'm just assuming. then i folded in the powder mixture and carefully mixed it together. then i think i might of over beaten it again. i'm so stupid after all the care i put into it, at the last step i had to ruin it. its just that i love mixing things and i always tend to overdo things, its not my fault that i like the mixing action. yeah i forgot to get rid of the air bubbles as well. i didn't realise that there were air bubbles until an hour into letting it form a skin, i was like yeah it should be alright, but it wasn't readers =(. at least they formed a skin this time and some of them had tiny feet. i guess that is an accomplishment that my macarons had feet, albeit tiny ones. i'm still a bit annoyed that not all of them turned out decent. the air bubbles made the covers cracked and i don't think it rised properly, it was a little too puffy my liking. the green icing was pistachios, the blue was vanilla and the brown was chocolate.

oh yeah i should really learn to spread my icing evenly as well.

i think i'm dedicated sunday as my macaron making day. i will get better and they will look perfect one day.

i went to coles before and they had curly fries on sale so i bought two packets, man i should really stop eating such unhealthy foods, why do they have to be on sale??? now i am slowly digging into my junk food pile that i have accumulated over the week. i really need to go for a run stat.

Love Squealer.