French Macaroons (Macaron) with Chocolate filling

The 2009 October Daring Bakers? challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming?s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.

For a person who has never heard of Macaroons before (leave alone a french one at that), is completely lousy at making pastry/meringue based desserts, who laughed at the term ‘feet’ when talking about cookies, I really had this coming – thanks to this months Daring Baker’s Challenge. You would think that with such a handicap I would have started the challenge the first thing in the month? Nah! I am never going to prosper – last minute yet again it was and this time it punished me severely! 8 BATCHES of Macaroons are lying in a zip lock bag in my kitchen right now – looking like anything but Macaroons – Utter failure! And when I finished off all the aged egg whites, almond flour and the powdered sugar – I see a little light at the end of the tunnel.

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