Mighty Macarons

Remember the gift certificate I received from my SIL Kak Tine for my 32nd birthday last December? hehehehe.. click here to refresh.

So finally I was able to attend the class. My original plan to attend for the bread class didn't come about because the timing clashed with my other plans. I also successfully persuaded my long time best friend Jie to come and join the class! I am glad we went together because both of us were very passionate about this things! haha. right jie?

Anyway, I think I made the right choice of choosing the Mighty Macarons class, because I think if I were to try this on my own, I would have given up even before trying! Click here for more info about the class. Reading the recipe alone intimidated me and when Rohani (the teacher) briefed us, I was actually very nervous to try. Once we started making it, hey, it wasn't that complicated at all.. I mean the ingredients are very simple and easily available. The thing which makes making macarons very hard and fussy is the preparation. Of course when I attended the class, each ingredients were already pre-prepared for me, all I do was mixing them together. So I would be a little bit nervous in making them on my own at home. hehehe. But I can't wait to try!

Oh by the way, before I attended this class, I never had macarons before. So today was my first time tasting how macarons tasted like. I had coffee, chocolate, pistachio, rose and green tea. Out of all these, i think I love the coffee and chocolate ones. hehehe which my friend Jie made. Mine was pistachio and rose flavoured. My verdict: macarons are too sweet for my liking although it was yummy. I would eat them of course, but they are too darn sweet! They were yummy, but after of those, I already felt sugar sick (i dont know if there is such a phrase but that was how i felt lol) despite that, today I had .. hmm let me count.. i dunno, about 7? or 8? hahah enough sugar for me for a week!

So let's see the pics ok?

That's the main house at Bayan Indah

View from the house

These babies greeted us. This was when I had my first taste of macarons. It was seriously yummy.

My work space. Btw, we were divided into pairs... (but the one in the pic was not my partner keke) based on our chosen flavours. Oh and this is also the end of HQ pics. lol. The memory card of the camera I brought were full!!! Arrgh so frustrating. So I just have to take pics using my phone.

The wide class.. I simply love this kitchen and I wish one day I'll have a kitchen this big! lol

These are made by myself and my partner, a retired 63 year old teacher, who was very cool. On top were the rose flavoured and below was pistachio macarons, before sandwiched with filling

Aren't they a cutie? Rose flavoured macarons with lychee filling. the pistachio ones were filled with crystallised ginger. Out of these 2, i prefer the rose one. and the lychee really goes well with rose. they sounded romantic too. hehe

With Rohani, the culinary extraordinaire. heheh I am going to make her my idol. seriously i love her. haha.

With my darling Jie after class.

I really enjoyed the class by Rohani and I want to go for other classes if I have extra money. This is also the most unique and valuable gift I have ever received. Thank you Kak Tine. There are some classes which I am very interested to join like the bread class, strudels.. .. If money is no issue, I would want to go at least once a month! hahaha. The environment was very serene, beautiful and Rohani is a very cheerful and cool teacher. I've only attended one class, but I would really recommend to people to go for Rohani classes.

For more pics... click on my facebook album here.

So, did anyone miss me? hehe.