It was a case of third time lucky yesterday when I made another batch of chocolate macaroons to take to our Mothers Day celebration. (The Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook refers to them as macaroons so that is good enough for me!) Now that I have mastered the chocolate version (made with some delicious Dutch cocoa) and using the recipe from the book that Susan gave me, I can see many more of these in my baking future.
We had a wonderful time catching up with all the extended family and there was loads of yummy food to eat. Sarah made some Macadamia and White Chocolate Chunk Blondie’s
and some Hazelnut Crescents.
I made some Thai Chicken Sausage Rolls
and my Mum made a wonderful Cupcake Tower. Needless to say we didn’t need any dinner after all the afternoon tea 🙂
Hope all the Mothers had a wonderful day yesterday!
I really need to know …. do you put on weight from all of that amazing deliciousness?? I gain just looking at your photos!
Those macaroons look fantastic. I am well impressed!
Wooohoooooo…they worked! How perfect do they look too? Great job Lisa…your persistence has paid off. Sarah’s baking looks wonderful too…it’s making me hungry 🙂
such a wonderful spread, oh my goodness how delicious!!! sounds like a lovely day
your macarons look perfect! congrats!
How good are you lot at baking, all looks so tasty. The macaroons look as good as the ones in the french patisserie in my mums village in France, so well done !
Wow!! Congratulations on your macarons!! They look delicious!!!!I haven’t seen that WW book before. My DD gave me a macaron baking book for Mother’s Day, so I will be trying to cook some soon too!…Do you have any hints???
Oh yum hazelnut crescents are my ab fab favourite. Glad i wasn’t at your house yesterday, it wouldn’t have done my diet any good, i would have had to try everything.
xx
Wow, what a decadent day! I have always wanted to try macaroons, so thank you for sharing the link to the recipe you tried. Sounds like a lovely day!
You have made my mouth positively water. Those macaroons are seriously impressive and very beautiful. Oh to have one now with a nice cup of tea! Glad you had such a good Mothers’ Day.
It’s not right to tempt me with all these lovely food creations this early in the morning! I have HOURS until lunch and I am not even going to feast on anything even close to as yummy as this!
Sigh… hehehehe
Ah, I was eyeing off that ww book today, now I’ve seen what you have made from it, I think I will have to splurge, though I don’t think mine would ever look like yours! Next time you have an extended family afternoon tea, I’m coming!!! Fabulous xo
They look wonderful and sounds like you had a great day
wow, the macaroons look amazing! you’ve got to divulge some of your lessons learned. now only if I could try one 😉
cheers ~ elizabeth
i’m sure you had a happy day (a yummy one for sure!). happy mom’s day just a tish late!
Oh, yummy, yummy! Ummm—good. Love it all. I love the cupcake tree. I could eat them all in one sitting! Yes, really!
Oh those look divine especially the chocolate macarons!Bravo!
Your chocolate macaroons look so mouthwateringly delicious!
What a wonderful selection you baked for the celebration!
I’m sitting here eating a yogurt, but I want a chocolate macaroon! Everything looks yummy!
Amazing looking macaroons! All of the goodies look just wonderful. Happy to hear that you had a wonderful Mother’s Day!
x
Mmmmm chocolate, cake Mmmm, sorry just had to wipe the drool from my chin, what a yummo arvo tea.
Wow! The macaroons have turn out great, they are so tricky to make. All the lovely biscuits and pasteries are making me hungry.
Congratulations, those macaroons look just like Emmanuels 🙂 Everything looks ever so yummy, no wonder you didn’t need dinner.
I hope you had a very happy mothers day… and that you saved me one of those chocolate macaroons 🙂 Yummy!
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such a nice comment about my bag. Susan was just the best at showing us what to do. I just love my bag so much.
Wow Lisa! Your macaroons look fabulous! Thanks for linking to the book too — you never know, it might appear here sometime, and I’ll know what it looks like. I haven’t tried chocolate yet, but yours sure make them tempting!!!
oh. my. HECK!!! Those macaroons look AMAZING!
Yum, those chicken sausage rolls look gooood!
It all looks so yummy! Good cooks obviously run in your family, Lisa.
Belated Happy Mother’s day to you!
Congrats to a perfect, delicious ‘bakery’! Have a lovely weekend! Love/Eva
Lisa, I gained 5 kilos just looking at all that yumminess!!! What I would give to live over your way and drop by for afternoon tea…of course, I may never leave, so perhaps you are sighing with relief about now. LOL!!
Oh my gosh! What a feast! I love the look of your chocolate macaroons. Delish!!!
What a delicious (and beautiful!) celebration! And I am very impressed with your macaroons…