Mascapone Macarons

Baking and desserts isn't really my thing I often have great intentions but fail to follow the recipe closely enough and the results just don't live up to expectations. However that all changed yesterday with a very successful batch of melt in your mouth macarons filled with raspberry and chocolate ganache mascarpone cheese.

At the start of the weekend I had purchased the ingredients for a sugar rush sensation called "very chocolatey hazelnut pavlova" a recipe from the April edition of Sainsbury's magazine.

Over a break dominated by chocolates of the eggy variety I began to realise that this would be a completely over the top pudding to complete our Easter dinner.  I did however need to use both the mascarpone and the (recently defrosted) incredibly useful product Two Chicks egg white.

Meringue was the obvious choice but after a bit of searching I came across this macaron recipe https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/easy-macaron-macaroon-recipe/  with a brilliant walk through video containing tips that made all the difference to the finished product. So very many thanks to food blogger www.howtocookthat.net for the inspiration to try something new.

I followed the instructions to the letter with no shortcuts this time getting perfect results. The fillings were marscapone flavoured with a chocolate ganache the chocolate (a lindt chicken) melted in a little hot double cream and raspberry jam made from that glut of last summer gently heated and strained to remove the seeds.

Happy Easter days!