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How to Price Homemade Macarons

Calculate how much a homemade macaron costs to make and figure out how much to charge in your home baking business. Learn different ways to cut down on production costs and bring more value to your customers without discounting.

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How to Fold Macaron Batter with Real-Time Macaronage Video

Real-Time Macaronage Video Ever since I posted the video tutorial on How to Macaronage in 2 Minutes, I’ve been asked many times for a real-time video on the process so that viewers can gauge how long the whole process actually takes. Today, I’m posting this real-time video of my macaronage process complete with a countdown […]

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Reader’s Macaron Baking Questions and Messages

  From now on, reader questions that I receive in private will be answered here. Since I receive a lot of requests for personal help, I have decided to publish the questions and answers publicly so that others can benefit from it as well. Please take a look through these questions and the resources I […]

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What Causes Hollow Macaron Shells

Here are the top reasons why your French macarons are hollow and how to fix them. Some of these issues include meringue stiffness, folding technique, macaronage, incorrect baking temperature and oven problems.

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How to Make a Cute Macaron Box for Your Character Macarons (Template)

    Forever Searching for Cute Macaron Boxes I have been searching for years to find a suitable box for my character macarons. It’s only in the last little while that macaron boxes for regular round macarons have been easily accessible to the general public while there still seems to be a complete absence of […]

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How to Save Time, Money and Sanity While Making Macarons

Macaron making can be frustrating, brutal and at times impossible! I’ve listened as many have shared their macaron problems with me and a lot of these problems actually share a common theme so I wrote this post to help alleviate the toll that macaron baking may have taken on your wallet and sanity! Believe me, I had […]

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How to Make Perfect Meringue for Macarons

By popular request, here is a dedicated video and instructions for preparing the meringue in macaron baking. The meringue is perhaps the most important foundation for macarons so it’s important to make it properly. I’d venture to say that most of your macaron problems will come from a poorly prepared meringue. Make sure you are […]

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How to Age Egg Whites for Baking Macarons

What is Aged Egg Whites? A lot of macaron problems derive from a poor meringue so it’s very important to start baking with a strong and healthy one. “Aging” the egg whites is the first step in acheiving this. How to Age Egg Whites? To age egg whites, start by separating the whites from the […]

  Over the holidays, we acquired this very whimsical and somewhat ironic canvas for our home. We moved in last Spring and our walls have been mostly bare as we took our sweet ol’ time to find the perfect piece to add to our home decor mix (translation: I was too lazy and not particularly motivated). […]

Do all the bears on the left look the same to you? Sure, at first glance, they all seem to look cute and cuddly but if you look closely you can see that the one on the bottom right has more clearly defined ears. I did this piping sample to show the difference between batter that […]

  Unicorn Collab with Christina’s Cupcakes This unicorn portrait inside a big unicorn macaron is a collaboration between me and one of my favorite creators, Christina’s cupcakes. I’m sure many of you already know of Christina’s beautiful work with gumpaste roses and gold frames, and you’ll recognize them in our collab. Let me tell you, […]

Today we celebrated mom’s day way up high in Top of Vancouver Revolving Restaurant. It was a lively get together which included our two moms, my family and hubby’s family. We presented our moms with these flower macaron bouquets I created for them. I’d like to say that somehow I inherited mom’s skills towards working with […]