Successful macarons!

Ok, so by now you may have realized that I obsess a bit about stuff.  Some may call it OCD, others ADD, I call it being awesome.  I could barely sleep last night thinking about the macaron mayhem that I got myself into yesterday.  When I finally realized that I had under mixed the batter, I resigned myself to a morning of making more macarons.  I had to redeem myself.



Mixing in the first batch of sugar/almond four.  John picked purple today!



This is how the batter should look, like thick ribbons folding back upon itself.  I was afraid to over mix because of deflating the egg whites.   This is what you need to do though, otherwise you end up with gnome hats.

Getting ready to pipe.  What do you do with your wedding crystal?  This is what happened to mine.



I like to call this one, "Early morning sun on perfectly piped macarons"



This is what they should look like when baked, please note, no points and little feet!



Perfect, purple perfection.  I made a little bit of lemon butter cream and voila!  I can sleep at night again.

-Jenny