Show your love, say it with macarons! These conversation pastel coloured heart macarons are inspired by the Sweethearts candy.Though I never actually had one, I fell in love with those candies few years back when looking at cards in a local stationery store in Cyprus, I stumbled upon a simple but adorable card with picture of small sweethearts candy with cute messages printed on them.That card […]
A hearty, chocolatey treat perfect for valentine’s day. I have very little experience with fondant and I do seem to find difficult ones to work with. This time I had sugar paste from one of the local Israeli brands and despite the fact that I used plenty of icing sugar, it was sticking in my counter and coloured my hands while working with it. Nevertheless this […]
Many things can go wrong when making macarons, and even when you have proven your recipe and know the technique, something can go wrong with these pretties. And that’s what happened to me last weekend while baking these yellow fellows. I wanted to flavour the shells with passion fruit and even made two different batches using passion fruit flavouring but they did not come out right. […]
Two years ago was the happiest day of my life so far, the day I married my husband, my love and my best friend, Yoav. We had been living together for over 5 years and known it was serious for quite some time but that day made it official, we’d be in this together in better and worse and while it could have felt scary […]
After years of home baking Marianne has studied pastry chef profession and worked in the field in Israel for 3 years. She is currently a stay-at-home mom eager to start teaching kitchen skills to an over enthusiastic toddler.