Macaron Baking Class

Macaron or macaroon is actually a sweet confectionary made from egg white, ground almonds, icing sugar and caster sugar. It's really cute with it's round and nice shape. Macarons are actually really expensive if you buy it from any store from Malaysia. ( Do you know that the ingredients to make macarons are actually one of the cheapest in all types of pastry and yet shops at Malaysia sells them for RM3- RM4 each? D: ) The reason macarons are so damn expensive is because the skills required to macarons to get into the perfect consistency and right oven temperature is REALLY HARD because they are really sensitive to temperature. ( Short term, they are like babies. Cute and tuff)

I actually tried to bake macarons a few times. Sometimes, it come out just fine ( Uneven feet but still, it tasted ok). Sometimes, it came out horribly. I am super pissed off with it since most of the times I couldn't get the consistency right. Therefore, my mom decided to sent me to Macaron baking class since I have nothing to do these days. YAYYY! I decided to ask Yi Xuan along too!

The chef, Chef Eigen Ting thought us the history and precaution about baking macrons. (ps. He's only 20+ and he's really cute and friendly) Finally for the first time I could get the consistency right. *double thumbs up for me* I baked purple macroons for myself with the guidance from the chef while Yi Xuan baked BLUE macarons. COOL. We had a wonderful time. Finally, my macarons have even feets and they raise up evenly. ♥ We even learnt how to make Mint Ganache, Salted Caramel Buttercream ( My favourite! Hardest to do too! ), Cream Cheese Frosting and Vanilla Buttercream for the fillings. Other than the Slated Caramel Buttercream, others are really easy to make. :D The chef even maked vanilla ice-cream using dry ice in just a few minutes as a special treat for all of us. ♥ It tastes much better than 'Walls' and MCD ice cream and it could be made within 5 minues!COOL! ♥

I may not be an expert in macaron baking but I think I do know how to make it better now. Anybody wanna get macaron making lesson classes from me? I charge according to our friendship! Of course, I teach you all the technique but you leave all the macarons for me to eat. :p

Here are the pictures:

The fillings

Pipping it . :)

How is it? :D

And of course, MY MACARONS!

This is what happens when you add crushed dry ice into your ice cream batter. SMOKEY!

Vanilla ice-cream formed within minutes!

This is what happens when you add too much dry ice and the ice-cream became too cold. LOL.

The classroom.

Our chef with his sister. AWW!

My recipe book. DON'T PEEK!

Another photo of myself after the class. BYE BYE!