10:10pm Mon Oct 26: A little Farmville play, harvest, plow, plant!
10:17pm Mon Oct 26: Check Facebook! Ah how nice a Post on the Daring Baker’s Oct Challenge: Macarons written by Sunita’s World
10:19pm Mon Oct 26: Sunita’s Macs look yummy and the post was a great read.
10:20pm Mon Oct 26: I think to myself, “Yo, John, you are a Daring Baker and tomorrow is the 27th, where in hell are your macs?!?!?” Here I go again!!!!
10:23pm yadda-yadda-yadda!!! Run downstairs and seperate five eggs and pray that the 16 hours the whites will age will be enough!!!!!
Comic relief kids, since time seems to be my weakest link……..
Fast Forward to
6:15pm Tues Oct 27: I got magma!!!
Piped Magma
6:54pm Tues Oct 27: I DON’T gots feet!! Feets done failed me now!!!
7:02pm…: Last bit of magma piped, going to let it air dry this time and see what happens.
8:0 (freakin’) 9…: Still no feet!!!! Time to admit defeat?; or is that defeet?????
Ok, so I have finally come to a challenge that I feel I shall not return to. This is not my 1st attempt at Macs, the first was last month, you can read about it here, that was a semi-success. The 2nd attempt was earlier this month, I was going to make chai spice shells with a pumpkin cream cheese buttercream, I ended up with , once again, ‘feet”less hockey pucks. Tonight’s attempt had no feet but had the classic crisp outer shell with a soft chewy core, so another semi-success. After last night’s trip into the Time Warp, I was getting ready for bed and my flavor combo hit me…
Rocky Horror (Road) Macs
So tonight’s batch was a milk chocolate shell, with a marshmellow cream filling and chopped almonds to round it out. Even though they were more a failure than otherwise, I felt you needed to see the end result.
"Feet"less Rocky Horror (Road) Macs
And now I will leave you with two things to ponder.
First the obligatory….
The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.
And lastly…
I think it is time to kiss my Macs….
Goodbye!!!!
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October 27, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Lisa
So why do you think? Not enough time drying? Not enough time for the eggs to age? What?? My failure was in the beating of the batter.. I paddled my pud way too vigorously. My magma turned into muddy river water. *sigh* I got feet though.. but I let my eggs age 3 days and they dried for 45 minutes.
Don’t even ask me about the first attempt. I have blocked it out and refuse to return to that dark place again.
Rocky Road macs sound delish though – regardless if they have feet or are two bloody stumps..
xoxo
October 28, 2009 at 5:50 pm
megan
Feet or no feet, they look tasty!
November 1, 2009 at 9:19 pm
kellypea
Whatevah on the no feet thing. They look like cute whoopie pies. I’ll bet they were pretty tasty, too. Nice crunch? Mmmmm….