Waching daily Sep 3 2017

[I move and turn around too much. Sorry.]

Hi everyone. Today I'm going to try to make some macarons.

And I'm going to speak in French.

And I'm obviously not French, but I'm learning French.

So I thought it would be a good idea to make a video in French

where I do something French

like macarons.

It's the first time where I make macarons.

I don't cook very often, so I think this is going to be interesting...

Okay, here are the ingredients I'm using.

Egg whites, powdered sugar, almond flour, jam, granulated sugar, and blue food coloring.

I'm going to put the videos that I watched for this recipe in the description.

I'm putting the almond powder and the powdered sugar in a food processor and mixing them together.

Okay, I'm sifting the mixture into a bowl.

And don't try to sift the blades like I did...

Remove...

...the blades...

Sift, sift...

Lots of sifting.

Keep on sifting...

Okay, now I'm adding the egg whites into another bowl

And I start to whisk.

Adding the sugar

little by little.

After a minute or so,

I add a couple drops of my blue food coloring.

And then I continue to whisk a little bit more.

It's pretty.

Keep whisking.

Okay, I'm adding the dry ingredients little by little.

And with a spatula, mix everything.

Okay, add the meringue to a pastry bag

but I actually had a lot of difficulty with that so I didn't film it, sorry.

And here are the shells! (That word sounds awfully close to something else in English...)

Into the oven (even though they're clearly already done.)

Take it out of the oven.

And afterwards I add the jam with lots of difficulty (and also apparently with the word "difficulté")

because I'm holding a knife and my camera at the same time.

Here's the final product.

It's not bad.

It's a little surprising that I basically succeeded.

And now I'm going to taste it.

To be honest it's good, but a little sweet.

But I think the next time I make macarons

I'm going to use less sugar.

Yeah, I think it was a success.