I had a very busy baking week last week because my brother asked me to make the cake for my niece’s First Holy Communion. You can read all about that here. Originally he asked for a Macaron Piece-Montee , which knowing my brother he did partly to see if I would be floored. In the…
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Macarons – the reason for all those steps
The macaron is a beautiful but tricky little thing. It started life as an ordinary biscuit back in the Middle Ages but in the 1930’s it was elevated to the world of haute couture petits-fours to become the beautiful and complex thing we know today. You can read more about the history here, but this post is all…
Macarons – a biscuit with many ancestors
If you have read my blog before you will know how this bake came about, but to summarise I was asked to bake a cake for my niece’s First Holy Communion, with a specific request for a Macaron Piece-Montee. It didn’t quite work out that way as you can read here, but it made an…
The Cottage Loaf 