When I am asked to provide anything for an afternoon tea (not that I am very often, but still) my default offering is always macarons. It gives me an excuse to make them. I was invited to an afternoon tea hen do for a friend, and this is what I brought. The orange macarons are orange and vanilla flavoured and although you cannot see it on the picture, they are sprinkled with edible gold glitter - as was most of my kitchen after I had finished. The blue ones are blueberry and vanilla and are stacked a little taller than I wanted but the macaron circumfrence|blueberry height ratio was a little off. Anyway, they tasted great as the sharpness of the blueberries took away a bit of the sweetness of the macaron.
This batch are pretty damn good ones and I think they cook better if you leave them for as long as you can. I left these babies for about an hour whilst I tidied the kitchen up and de glittered myself, and I think they were all the better for it.
I adore macarons)
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