J'ai gagnée!
Top: Chocolate macarons with chocolate buttercream
Bottom: Matcha macarons with matcha buttercream
Just in time for Lunar New Year...only thirteen attempts too late. In light of my new success, I vow to never contemplate on depriving my macaron recipe of even the slightest grain (or two grams, cough*) of sugar.
Above: Chocolate macarons
Since it's my first successful batch, I decided that the macarons deserve no less than some embellishments of brush-strokes that I meticulously hand-painted. All of my hopes that my artwork would become the next Picasso came to an end once my sister insisted that I subconsciously drew cannabis on my matcha macarons, while my guests laughed nervously and brushed them off as merely palm trees. I was shooting for an abstract concept that elicits some pensive mood, but instead, I got illegal substance and Caribbean plant.
