Day 5: Macaroons (Advanced)
Sweet Sweet Macaroons Day 5 - Advanced Cooking Group - Blog by Aiden C Day 5 of the Art Of Cooking J-Term kicked off for the advanced cooking group with a far more cautious-than-normal attitude. Today we were making Macaroons, a dish made of a delicate cookie sandwich filled with a flavored ganache. Macaroons, unlike other dishes, have a property that makes them quite different to make. Not only does the dish require very specific mixing amounts to make sure the egg whites come out correctly, but we also wouldn’t be able to know if we had done everything correctly until a step near then end, when it was far too late to go back. With this in mind along with detailed instructions from our recipe books and from Chef Jessica, we got started. Isa Sifting Powdered Sugar Our first step was to choose what flavors we wanted to go with, and our group chose to make chocolate-raspberry macaro...