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I think my pie making evolution has started after I fell in love with these shortbread cookies. They are crumbly, buttery and really simple to make. Since then I decided to turn my pie crusts into shortbread crusts, and kinda gave up the pate brisee, the classic shortcrust pastry, except for lattice pie.
This is a recipe for you if you have way too many egg whites left in the refrigerator and you have no idea what to do with them. At least for me, who has been insanely making home made ice cream and ice cream cake with egg yolks, thanks to the lovely ice cream maker.
Today is Pick a Strawberry Day. Did you know that? I didn’t. But isn’t it cute that there is a day reserved to celebrate such a sweet and fun activity?! And according to these interesting facts, ancient pregnant women believed if they ate strawberries their children would be born with strawberry birth marks. Funny!
I was just trying to use up my leftover vanilla buttercream from a client’s order and came up with these adorable spring flower cupcakes. Really spontaneous and causal and imperfect.
It may make more sense that you make French macarons by using the French method, which is the traditional way of mixing the meringue with almond flour and powdered sugar. I’ve used this method all along, simply because I didn’t know of other methods until recently.