The Daring Cooks October 2009 Challenge: MACARONS

THE DARING COOKS OCTOBER 2009 CHALLENGE: MACARONS The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S . She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe. My first time at the Daring Bakers! I already read some awesome things about them and I thought it would be just great to join them. And by doing this having the opportunity to try some new recipes and at the same time learn a lot and have some fun! So finally, after the summer, I signed up and waited till they revealed the new challenge! When I saw it was all about French Macaroons, I was just thrilled!! This is something I would never have tried myself, it looks quite difficult and I am also not much of a "cookie-baking" person. I DO love to eat cookies but baking them... mmmm, actually no. And before I am offfending anyone here with the cookie-reference, a macaroon is of course not a cookie, it is a MACAROON ;-) I already read about...