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Learning from the Macaron King
Thanks to Caroline Bligh from Cav Con for inviting me to this special event to watch Adriano Zumbo teach 12 lucky winners the art of making the perfect macaron. The event was held in the kitchen of Caffe Dante located on Level 1 in the MidCity Style Space. Once the aprons were on it was down to business and all hands on deck, or piping bags for that matter. The biggest challenge of the night was piping the perfect macaron on the baking trays. Adriano and his Sous-Chef Rhian skillfully demonstrated the art of piping the shells but plenty of practice awaits the kitchen crew to reach this level. It was interesting to see how they apply the shimmer on the macaron shell — I always wondered how they made them look so shiny. During the night mini versions of Adriano's desserts were served including the Story Cloud (Blueberry Meringue), Rock the Cradle (Coffee cheesecake with coffee jelly) and Houdini (Macaron with fresh strawberry, raspberry and basil curd) — how does he come up with these names? The promotional flyer mentioned desserts will be matched to a selection of drops from Rolling wines but unfortunately for some reason this didn't seem to prevail.
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Learning from the Macaron King
Thanks to Caroline Bligh from Cav Con for inviting me to this special event to watch Adriano Zumbo teach 12 lucky winners the art of making the perfect macaron. The event was held in the kitchen of Caffe Dante located on Level 1 in the MidCity Style Space. Once the aprons were on it was down to business and all hands on deck, or piping bags for that matter. The biggest challenge of the night was piping the perfect macaron on the baking trays. Adriano and his Sous-Chef Rhian skillfully demonstrated the art of piping the shells but plenty of practice awaits the kitchen crew to reach this level. It was interesting to see how they apply the shimmer on the macaron shell — I always wondered how they made them look so shiny. During the night mini versions of Adriano's desserts were served including the Story Cloud (Blueberry Meringue), Rock the Cradle (Coffee cheesecake with coffee jelly) and Houdini (Macaron with fresh strawberry, raspberry and basil curd) — how does he come up with these names? The promotional flyer mentioned desserts will be matched to a selection of drops from Rolling wines but unfortunately for some reason this didn't seem to prevail.
It was a long but fun night for all which resulted in making from scratch four kinds of macarons and I'm sure everyone learnt some very valuable tips about making macarons. If there's one thing I've learnt from the night is that I'll probably buy my macarons rather than cook them — I'm a lazy cook and life is too short to waste when you have experts like Adriano Zumbo creating the perfect macaron.
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SNAPSHOT REVIEW:
PROS: Learning how to make macarons from the experts, Tastings, Didn't have to clean up
CONS: Gets a little crowded in the kitchen with 12 cooks and 2 chefs, Sugar high
MUST TRY: Stormy Cloud (Blueberry Meringue), Other macaron flavours
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How fast can you pipe macarons?
Winners are grinners
Adriano and the lucky winners of the macaron cooking class
In the kitchen with Adriano
The mini Zumbo desserts
Plate of plenty (of sugar)
Gift pack of prepared desserts and macarons for the guests
Adriano taking photos of his handy work
Adriano Zumbo and Me — I think I'm nearly as tall as him
Adriano's foot wear — at least it's not black shoes with white socks :-)
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7 comments:
oh how exciting Simon! You got to hang out with Zumbo :D I'm jealous :P The macarons and mini desserts look amazing too... drool!
wow, nice shots ! haha
I love those mini sweets, all are so yum ! The golden macaron got too much gold? :P
Great photos! I saw Zumbo making the macaron tower at Mid City a few weeks ago, but the macarons were already made. Was this after that event? PS: I'm eating a Zumbo salted caramel mac as I'm reading this. PPS: I'd give almost anything for a mini Houdini...
After took this class, I totally agree with you that I should buy macarons instead of making my own. Although, I really want to give it a go :D
gah!!! u lucky duck! u must share his macaron making secrets at the picnic or ill hunt u down with a whisk and spatula
Aww, I walked past this whilst late night shopping on Thursday and I was wondering what it was! The houdini looks amazing!
hi sharon, was very interesting seeing how they're made, i had no idea.
hi bean sprout's cafe, i found the mini desserts were a good size too. i don't think i could eat a larger version of them.
hi bel, i was at that event too but had to leave early so i didn't get to see him finish the tower. this event was a few weeks after. i haven't tried his salt caramel macaron but have tried the baroque one which was very nice.
hi nugmeg, i think it's great to know how much effort goes into making them to really appreciate a good macaron. there's certainly an art to making the perfect one.
hi sugarpuffi, i'll be happy to give you any tips i can although i didn't write down the recipe. practice practice practice comes to mind though.
hi missklicious, you were so close. i'm sure you could have stuck around to watch and take photos as well and learn a few things too :-)
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