Green tea macarons

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(Green tea/matcha macarons)

To my neighbour who snores every night, enabling me to finally understand the allusion to chainsaws.

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To M who sent me a text message while dining in what is meant to be the best unagi restaurant in Tokyo. (Meanwhile, I was having a very pedestrian pasta dinner at home).

To the work-friend who readily listens when I have woes to air.

To Julia, and her obsession with macarons, begetting a how-to guide.

To Pierre Hermes, whose basic macaron recipe I use all the time.

Macaron-GreenTea

And to all those people who have been reading and leaving comments even though I haven’t had much time to return the favour of late :

Thank you.

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40 Comments »

  1. Vera said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 9:08 am

    Perfect every time!

  2. shaz said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 9:15 am

    Comment leaver leaving comment – absolutely gorgeous (as usual) πŸ™‚

  3. Megan{Feasting on Art} said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 9:38 am

    Your macarons are so beautiful! Mine always turn out so lumpy!

  4. maybelles mom said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 9:38 am

    lovely. and that must be some loud snoring if you can hear it.

  5. Veron said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 9:40 am

    I adore macarons and are quite obsessed with them. Matcha is one of my favorite flavors. Gorgeous photos too!

  6. Steph said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 11:14 am

    Your macarons look so perfect Y! I would love a matcha flavoured one right now, my absolute favourite! I only recently discovered I’m allowed to eat them, a bit scared to take the plunge and make them myself.

  7. Anh said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

    These are so perfect! Love love them!

  8. Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 2:27 pm

    Very cute indeed! Are they mini macarons?

  9. Aparna said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 2:56 pm

    And to these beautiful macarons. πŸ™‚

  10. the caked crusader said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 5:31 pm

    Elegant, beautiful and cracking photography – amazing!

  11. Esz said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 5:52 pm

    Those macarons look better than any I have ever seen in a shop or even the many photos on Flickr. Beautiful πŸ™‚

  12. Julia @ MΓ©langer said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

    Y – you know how much I love the macaron! πŸ™‚ These are so perfect, of course!! I can’t wait to try the PH recipe. Still can’t get over the light on these photos…just lovely!

  13. FFichiban said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 10:29 pm

    Oh wow that neighbour must have some talent but nothing compared to urs of course πŸ˜›

  14. Howard said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 11:12 pm

    I tried macarons and it was an epic fail, kinda like what happened on Masterchef for a few of them. They turned out flat, ended up being decent biscuits and not macarons. Your’s look every inch perfect!

  15. tara said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 11:32 pm

    The whole series is perfection, but I particularly love the first photo – the slight topsy-turveyness of the cookies and filling is just charming. All the best to you, m’dear.

  16. bowb said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 11:42 pm

    SIGHhhhhhhh. πŸ™‚

  17. Laura said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 12:02 am

    I love the delicate flavor of green tea in dessert. I had a wonderful green tea mousse cake that had red bean paste inside, it was one of the best thing I ever ate.

    Next time I have extra whites I will try the italian method for macaroons, I normally make them with a french meringue.

    Great photos as always.

    Bummer about your neighbor, I wouldn’t be able to sleep!

  18. Y said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 12:41 am

    Thank you, thank you, to everyone for the comments πŸ™‚

    Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella : Well, they were bite-sized, but not sure if I would classify them as mini.

    Laura : I used to stick to the French meringue method too, but now favour the Italian method because it seems more stable and reliable.

  19. Sophie said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 2:38 am

    Waw,……amazing! They look so tasty!! What a lot of hard work though!!

    Excellent!

  20. Patricia Scarpin said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 3:40 am

    They are lovely, just like you are!

  21. Caitlin said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 3:59 am

    Oh Y, just keep things like this coming every once in a while, and I’ll forgive you anything πŸ™‚ Just beautiful, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who makes smaller macarons. Hope everything is going well and you aren’t too frantically busy! Oh, and I loved that how-to guide, I stumbled across it a little bit ago – just wonderful!

  22. Jen Yu said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 4:15 am

    Your macs are sooooo cute! I hear ya on the no time thing, but I’d rather you have time to live life the way you like it than to while it away blogging πŸ™‚ Besides, I follow your tweets, so I always get a nice little dose of Y!!

  23. Irene said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 7:05 am

    They are beautiful! Very nice of you about the snoring — I am not so charitable to my husband when his snoring shakes the walls! πŸ™‚

  24. clumbsycookie said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 7:30 am

    My neighbour also snores… They’re beautiful!

  25. Trisha said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 8:09 am

    These are perfect PERFECT macarons!

  26. Betty said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 10:44 am

    Aww these look gorgeous!

  27. food librarian said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

    Beautiful! I love all things with matcha and these look beautiful.

  28. cakebrain said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

    perfect macarons! Matcha is my flavour of choice. I like how the green tea colours the macarons so beautifully.

  29. Cakelaw said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

    These are gorgeous!

  30. Arwen from Hoglet K said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 5:19 pm

    Oh dear, your neighbour must be incredibly loud! Beautiful presentation.

  31. Ana Powell said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 8:40 pm

    Absolutely breath taking work.
    Beautiful x

  32. L said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 9:27 pm

    Lovely, you are so talented and those macaroons are perfect in every way. I thought of you the other night when KK was on masterchef and I wondered what you were up to now. I am this far {indicates with thumb and index finger 3mm apart} from joining you in the culinary world full-time. I have had it with my paper-pushing, cubicle-bound, life-sucking and spirit-sapping existence in the suited world of civil servantry and endless bureaucratic mazes. Should I do it? Is it all sweetness and light, or is it burns, carpal tunnel and crazy ego-ridden slavedriving chef bosses?

  33. Tangled Noodle said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 10:37 pm

    Meandering through the ‘net and, to my delight, come across . . . macarons! These are so lovely. I’ve never made macarons, in large part because of perfect, unmatchable examples like yours; still, it’s certainly inspiring. In case I finally work up the nerve, thanks for the link to MΓ©langer’s how-to!

  34. anna said,

    July 15, 2009 @ 6:10 am

    Those are adorable and gorgeous! I need to try a new method maybe, I was using Tartelette’s but have had no luck with it the past few times. I want my macaron mojo back πŸ™

  35. Juliana said,

    July 15, 2009 @ 2:29 pm

    Absolutely lovely…will have to try…great pictures as well.

  36. Aran said,

    July 15, 2009 @ 7:05 pm

    beautiful Y!

  37. cindy said,

    July 16, 2009 @ 9:40 am

    lovely!

  38. cathy x. said,

    July 17, 2009 @ 11:44 am

    you know we love you! πŸ˜€

  39. Chez US said,

    July 18, 2009 @ 3:39 pm

    Beautifully said! Lovely post …..

    ~ D.

  40. Sam@BingeNYC said,

    August 12, 2009 @ 1:24 am

    Gorgeous! I love the black sesame seeds.

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