How's everyones week been? I managed to tire myself out so much that I caught a cold by the end of the week, so my weekend was mostly spent sleeping with a little bit of baking mixed in. I always want to bake when I'm feeling under the weather, I guess it's a comfort thing. It's been a while since I baked up some macarons, and this weekend I decided to make Ice Cream Cone-Shaped Macarons filled with Vanilla Ice Cream & Waffle Cone Icing. I think we've firmly established the fact that I am shamelessly willing to make macarons in any wacky shape I feel like. I was inspired after seeing a recipe for an icing that actually used melted ice cream in it from Cookies & Cups. I thought it would be the perfect filling for a cute macaron shaped into an ice cream covered with rainbow sprinkles. Pretty freakin' cute. Shaping the macarons shells into ice cream cones was pretty tricky. It
is not an easy shape to get right because it's so irregular, and this
makes the shell surface more prone to cracking. About half my batch of
shells cracked in various places (sad face), mostly because I forgot
that weirdly-shaped macarons need a LOT more drying time before they go
into the oven. And the ones that didn't crack were still a little lumpy
and funny looking, far from perfect but still cute! Sprinkles always
help. I even found these nifty mini rainbow chocolate chips in my
cupboard (my cupboard full of sprinkles is getting pretty huge), and
used the red ones as the 'cherry' on top of each ice cream cone.
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