Macaroons!

Our Stitch group got together yesterday to have a Bake Off making French Macaroons.  It did turn into something quite chaotic with several batches being made at once, all with different colours and flavours being added.

The rest of the family did not seem to go a bundle on the electric whisks and shrieks of laughter that appeared to be emanating from the kitchen, but never mind.  We managed to produce these!

We made about 3000 of them, but it was these lucky 12 that were just the right consistency.  We followed a Lorraine Pascale recipe off the BBC Food website.  And there are enough ingredients left to have another attempt.  We did share them out between us, and I would have put a picture of the lovely ones I got to keep, but unfortunately, I ate them today before I switched on my camera.

Despite all their loveliness, macaroons are incredibly sticky.  I am still finding hot spots around my kitchen now...