Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Hey Honey...

This weekend I decided to try some new things. I had been wanting to try and make honeycomb after I saw them doing it on the Great British Bake-off and when I finally got around to trying it, I thought what better to do with it than make macarons. Chocolate honeycomb was the flavour this time and I decided I would even create a visual diary of how I make the macarons (I did miss a few steps but the majority are below and unfortunately I didn't get to capture the honeycomb in pictures so I will have to make it again some other time).



Making the Macarons

heating the sugar syrup and colouring
 egg whites forming soft peaks
 adding the finished sugar syrup straight into the egg whites
 sifting the almond meal and icing sugar together
 adding more egg whites to form an almond paste
combining the finished meringue and almond paste to create the mixture ready for piping
 
 piping the shells
 resting to form a skin before cooking
 
 rising to form 'feet'
 finished shells ready for filling
 homemade honeycomb
basic chocolate ganache
crushed honeycomb ready to be mixed through
finished honeycomb ganache
 drizzled chocolate for decoration on finished macarons


THE FINISHED PRODUCT

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