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Hey Everyone! As promised on my previous blog I am sharing the pistachio buttercream frosting I used as filling for my Macarons.  The ingredients are: - 1 cup (200g) of granulated sugar - 3 eggs - 1/2 cup (50g) ground pistachios - 1cup & 2 tbsp. (230g) chilled unsalted butter Pretty simple right?? But the taste?? Amazing!  Let's make our frosting shall we? 1. Beat together sugar and eggs on one bowl with an electric mixer at high speed. You want your batter to double in volume & become fluffy This is how it should look like after mixing.. 2. Pour the mixture in a saucepan & stir in ground pistachios.  3. Heat over medium temperature & stirring continuously until the mixture forms a compact batter. 4. Pour in a container and cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge. 5. Cut up butter in small pieces and beat in a bowl until it expands in volume & becomes fluffy. This is the consistency we are aiming for

Guess what??!! I am officially a baker.. I recently bought this new baby.. Its the Moulinex Masterchef Gourmet. It comes with a meat grinder, blender, chopper, slicer,juicer.. cool right? I was actually eyeing to get a Kitchenaid Mixer.. I was saving up for it since it costs a lot. It is an investment for kitchen gadgets to have. I told Chief that when we move to our final home where we want to finally settle (not in Dubai) I will get this little baby.  As for now I am happy with my Moulinex mixer. It does the job and so much more. Chief is excited to make his burgers from scratch using the meat grinder..lol! Well, this then inspired me to make French Macarons.  Since I wanted to make it more special, I decided to make a special pistachio butter cream frosting which deserves it's own blog entry.  Here are the ingredients to make French Macarons: - 4 large egg whites in room temperature - 1/3 cup (70g) caster sugar - 1.5 cups (230g) icing

Hey guys! What's up with everyone? How's summer treating you so far?  This may be the best season for other countries because of the opportunity to do more activities outside without battling rain or cold. It is quite the opposite here in middle east. Summer is difficult when you live in a desert. It gets scorching hot!!!!  This is the time when we spend more time indoors to protect ourselves from the heat.  This is why I've been doing a lot of baking!!!  I've always loved baking since I was young. I remember the weekends when my mom would ask me to bake something that we can have as a snack for afternoon weekends. I would then have my demanding brothers go back and forth in the kitchen to ask if what I'm making was ready. lol!   Now I've put my baking to the next level and been trying out more complicated recipes and so far I am enjoying the challenge :)  Few weekends ago, I made Japanese Cotton Cheesecake and here are the ingredients: -228g crea

Okay guys.. I know I've been missing in action (M.I.A.) lately.. and it's not something new lol! The thing is, my weekends have been completely occupied since I went back to baking and I enjoy it so much. It just takes my weekends to the next level which resulted to me not updating my blog...sorry!! I will be posting a lot of it soon and just to make you guys excited on what's coming let me show you thing's I've baked in the last weekends.. French Macarons with Pistacio Buttercream frosting.. Japanese Cheesecake... 'Til my next post everyone! CIAO! -CARMI