RASPBERRY MACARONS WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE

raspberry macarons with white chocolate

Had a hankering for pink macarons...and I had these dehydrated raspberries in my cupboard. What the heck I bought the dehydrated raspberries for initially, I don't remember. I grated the little raspberries over the freshly piped macarons before I let them rest the prerequisite 20 minutes. The raspberries started to crumble; so I put some in my Bullet and ground them to a powder and dusted them over the tops of the macarons.

dehydrated raspberries add an intense aroma and splash of colour to the shells

freshly baked raspberry macarons

The macarons out of the oven smelled of raspberries and looked cool. Being a lazy butt, and mind you, I am still preoccupied with dispensing eyedrops in my newly "Lasik-ed" eyes every hour--I decided that instead of a white chocolate ganache, I'd just melt the white chocolate and pipe it between the macarons. I figured it couldn't taste that bad, right? It's chocolate! I suppose I could have gotten fancy and put a blob of seedless raspberry jam in the center before piping a circle of white chocolate around it, but I didn't. Maybe next time.

raspberry macarons with white chocolate filling

here the macarons are being packaged for delivery by bebe to her preschool teacher!