Monday, October 15, 2007

Blood orange poppy seed macarons. I'm really happy, this was my most successful batch. Almost all came out identical. I always had a problem for consistency, half of my batch would look okay, and the rest ran into each other, had misproportionate feet and cracked.
The macarons didnt really taste like blood oranges, rather like oranges. Maybe because the buttercream was flavoured with blood orange curd. The poppy seed flavour was too subtle, I should have added more to the macaron shells, I had enough poppy seeds to last me a lifetime.

I'm not good with colour. The finished macarons didnt look anything like what blood orange macarons should look like, with no relation to the colour of its dark ruby juice that gave it its name. Maybe more rose, and orange. And I didnt want to colour the buttercream. The oven time and temperature needs some experimenting, I think I baked mine at too high a temperature at a shorter period of time. The macarons discoloured.