I was bitching the other day about the macaroon recipe in Baby Cakes. I decided to see just how long it would take, and just how many recipes it would take to make one batch of macaroons.
Roasting the apples
As I mentioned yesterday, each recipe pointed to a different one, and I thought I had caught all of them, but when looking at the vanilla cupcakes, I discovered that it called for apple sauce. (page78). OK, I thought, noting the time, 4:45, and I turned to page 78 to discover that the apple sauce called for roasted apples, (page 27), so I went to page 27. And there, finally there, I was able to stop, as there were no more references to go to.
Into the blender
So I roasted the apples (which meant cutting them up, roasting them in the oven, and adding cinnamon, honey (although she called for agave) and lemon juice. Then, although I tried to mash them up, as did cartoonist, we finally went to the blender and finished the job.
At this point it was 5:15 and we finally had all the ingredients to make the vanilla cupcakes, that would be used in the crumble, that would be used in the macaroons.
So, cartoonist mixed up the cupcake mix, with the apple sauce, and we put it in to the oven. We saved some of the cupcakes, but took the six for the crumb base, and at that point it was 6:15pm.
Vanilla cupcakes
Finally, we were ready for the vanilla crumb base. Finally, and so we mixed it all up, and cartoonist was so excited that we started putting the ingredients in with the vanilla crumb, forgetting that this was to be used for other recipes, and so we used the whole shebang, instead of a cup’s worth. But by then it was too late, as we had already mixed everything in. So we doubled the recipe, adding more coconut, and more honey, and hoped for the best.
crumble
At 7:15, we took the macaroons out.
Was it worth it? Eh, no. they were good, but not that good. I actually liked my almond macaroons much better, and I didn’t have to make apple sauce or vanilla crumb base to make them. And it only took about 30 minutes to make those. Those were from the Jewish Mama’s Kitchen.
Finished maroons
As Cartoonist said, those macaroons should have been DAMN GOOD, and not just ok.
Usually, if we like what we cook, we store it right away, so it doesn’t go bad overnight.
Cartoonist went to bed, and without making a move to store the macaroons, nor did I.
