Perceiving

Finally got a chance to make this recipe from the 2010 holiday edition of the LCBO magazine. Making the cookies are a little tricky. A lot of them turned out cracked or malformed. I got about 60% yield on the 24 cookies I made. Some lessons learned: After piping the mixture out to form the cookies, do not "top up" with extra cookie mixture at the end. Otherwise you get this nipple effect (picture below, left). Flattening the  macarons out with the back of a spoon dipped in warm water is a bad idea. While it is effective in flattening the peaks, it causes ugly bubbles like this (picture below, right) to form on the surface. Malformed cookies: (left) "nipple" effect. (right) bubbling on the surface I had a lot of leftover caramel in the end. If you don't have a super sweet tooth like me, you can get away with making just half the caramel recipe. The final product: Macaron on a plate with caramel oozing out Tin of macarons to share w