#failedmacarons

I think I took about 2-3 hours making them! Fun! I need to work out and get stronger arms so my arms don’t get tired holding the hand mixer. I refuse to go ahead and buy hand mixer now when I can’t even easily beat eggs to make meringue holding hand mixer.  Recipe I followed is: https://youtu.be/LAH3fukydOo Improvisations and notes: - Used 40g of Almond Flour and did not use clumps that did not make it through sifter. - Kneaded(?) mixed using regular size spatula. - Used 40g of egg whites. - For Merigue, took 6 minutes total with hand mixer-- after 1min, added little bit of sugar, then repeated that til I used all 35g. Then I beat 4 min on high. - When tapping out bubbles, shape remained stiff, it seemed like it did not pop out any bubbles b/c the batter had to be more flowy. - FLAVOR: I made shells just plain as is and for filing, I made my own WHITE CHOCOLATE GANACHE. I looked up several ganache recipes but I didn’t want to go get “heavy cream” so I improvised using oatmilk and using butter cream method from chocolate mini roll cake filling.  ((Oatmilk White chocolate ganache method:  Simmer 1/3 cup of oat milk, melt 4oz white chocolate in it. Separately, beat stick of soft butter, gradually adding 100g of confection sugar little by little so it doesn’t get grainy. Then, beat the chocolate mix into it. It tasted reallllly good and white chocolate-ly)) I thought I can give them away to a lot of people but my family actually liked the taste so much and ate so much, I didn’t have any left to give away. HEhe.. soo.. I was kind of proud of myself.

Bowls to show so I know how many to whip out next time before starting :)

After tapping out(?)... but didn’t go anything.. :(

Left it out for at least an hour to let the shell form skin. I think this helped a little bit than 1st time from cracking/slouching as not so much,

After baking 300F for 15 min. Maybe I should have baked a little less since my macarons are tiny?

I’m thankful this pic was taken. I didn’t realize shells were baked unevenly.

Actually put 2 on the left from 1st ones (I baked the day before) compared to right ones I baked for the 2nd time. You can see the texture difference.

Crying.

At least they look kind of cute.