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Popping Passionfruit Macarons

28th October, 2015 By: Cath1 Comment

On a somewhat recent shopping trip I came across some freeze-dried fruit powders from The Melbourne Food Depot at a local store. As I was checking out the different varieties, I spied the passionfruit powder and immediately picked it up as the hubby and I both looooooove passionfruit.

It did take me a little while to get around to using it, which is normally the case for anything, but as I was in the mood to make macarons for some folks we had coming around, and it also turned out to be October’s Daring Bakers challenge, I decided to grab the powder and an extra ingredient, to make Popping Passionfruit Macarons.

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Passionfruit Créme Brûlée

12th July, 2015 By: Cathcomment

Passionfruit is yet another of my favourite flavours. I always loved drinking the Pasito soft drink growing up, and now the hubby makes a more adult drink by making passionfruit liqueur. If there is an option for something passionfruit, I will generally take it, including the fruit itself.

When we recently had friends over for dinner, I wanted to make something with passionfruit and given B said she liked créme brûlée it was decided I would make Passionfruit Créme Brûlée.

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Vanilla Sprinkle Cake (Gluten-Free)

3rd May, 2015 By: Cathcomment

A couple of years ago a tutorial from The Cake Blog appeared in my Pinterest feed for a DIY Rainbow Sprinkle Cake. Of course I pinned it straight away, but in true Cath fashion, it has taken a couple of years to actually have a go at it.

I did not make the cake in rainbow colours as Kate from The Greedy Baker did in the tutorial as I was going to have five macaron colours to match the cake (however in the end, I only ended up with two) but as there would be a few gluten intolerant folks consuming this cake I converted my favourite vanilla cake recipe into a gluten-free version so no one was left out.

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Jaffa Macarons

28th December, 2014 By: Cathcomment

I had grand illusions of another macaron tower recently with five brightly coloured, different flavour macarons to go with a sprinkle cake I was making. One would be the old favourite of Cherry Ripe Macarons, and the other four brand new ones I have had on my wish list to make.

Well for three of them I made the buttercream, but that was as far as I got, but one did end up with its shells and I am glad they did because I was very happy with how these Jaffa Macarons turned out.

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Chocolate Macarons

4th May, 2014 By: Cath8 Comments

Following the Easter long weekend, the hubby and I took the following week off as well to enjoy a short break. Whilst we went away over Easter, when we returned home we pottered around the house and had a little stay-cation. Of course I had big plans of catching up on the ironing, sorting out some of the kitchen cupboards and cooking a whole bunch of meals to put in the freezer, but alas, none of that eventuated.

The kitchen did end up getting a bit of a workout last weekend so stay tuned to the blog over the next few weeks as there is some deliciousness in store for you my friends.

First on the agenda was a batch of macarons. It has been over six months since my last macaron post, and on this occasion I thought I would whip up a batch of simple, but very tasty, Chocolate Macarons.

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Seed Mixture (ALPS Blend)

13th April, 2014 By: Cathcomment

Way back in 2012, there was a health and wellbeing initiative called the 1 Million Kilo Challenge where Australians were encouraged to sign up and receive meal and exercise plans to collectively shed, you guessed it, one million kilograms.

I signed up to a team with some friends and family with one recipe sticking with me for the years since. It isn’t a crazy, full on recipe, something rather simple with so many uses. In the meal plan they called it the ALPS Blend, but the hubby and I simply call it Seed Mixture and eat it everyday.

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Salted Caramel Macarons

22nd September, 2013 By: Cath15 Comments

One of the most popular flavours around these days is salted caramel. I see it in tarts, biscuits, cupcakes and certainly macarons. So when B requested Salted Caramel Macarons for her part of the 30th birthday macaron tower, I was excited to give it a go.

There are numerous recipes out there for salted caramel macarons, and the one I used was from one of my 100+ cookbooks being Secrets of Macarons by José Maréchal. It is an awesome little book with lots of info on how to make these fiddly little things and I refer to it regularly.

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Orange and Almond Cake

25th August, 2013 By: Cath2 Comments

Where I work, on your birthday you bring in a cake to share with everyone but if truth be told, any day is a good day for cake in our office. Recently it was K’s birthday and the cake she made was an Orange and Almond cake. After the first few bites, there were a few requests for the recipe and I decided to give this moist, gluten free cake a go myself last weekend.

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Homemade Vanilla Sugar

21st July, 2013 By: Cath4 Comments

It is a given that chocolate is one of my favourite things in this world and it is no surprise that it is the key ingredient behind one of my favourite desserts to make and eat, going by the name of chocolate mousse. In my eyes I have the most perfect recipe, which I have made a thousand times over, and one of the ingredients is vanilla sugar. After becoming annoyed at buying the small bottles of it from the supermarket, which frankly aren’t the best tasting, I decided I would try my hand at my very own homemade vanilla sugar.

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Fruit Tingle Macarons

30th June, 2013 By: Cath22 Comments

The hubby and I were off to spend a few days with friends and as the hubby was taking some of his home made beef and pork jerky for P (the boys love their jerky), I thought I would take something sweet for B seeing as how sugar is our weakness. Given it has been a while since I last made macarons I thought it was a good time to whip up one of the varieties that I had on my macaron Pinterest board for a while now.

Steph from Raspberri Cupcakes, a blog I have been following for years now and was the inspiration for the Checker Board and Honeycomb Cake as well as the Snowmen Macarons on my White Christmas Cake, has used a fruit tingle icing for an orange cake and then also used it to top some passionfruit cupcakes, with the leftovers being used for some macarons. I fell in love with them as soon as I saw them and knew that the upcoming trip would be the perfect opportunity to make some fruit tingle macarons of my own.

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Popping Passionfruit Macarons

Passionfruit Créme Brûlée

Vanilla Sprinkle Cake (Gluten-Free)

Jaffa Macarons

Chocolate Macarons

Seed Mixture (ALPS Blend)

Salted Caramel Macarons

Orange and Almond Cake

Homemade Vanilla Sugar

Fruit Tingle Macarons

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