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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...

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 (23...

I've been doing a lot of baking lately.. and you will see a lot of it on things that I will be posting soon. This started when I made those Chocolate Chip Cookies of which I blogged about here . I've always loved to bake since I was young and that stopped when I moved here in Dubai 7years ago. Work was too much that I just want to rest when I go home and do nothing. lol!  But having more free time now has led me back to one of my favorite hobby, which is what i said..baking. It's easier for me to go back to it since I already have the equipment to do basic baking.  I bought this box of Betty Crocker French Vanilla Cake a year ago, i planned to make them for Chief but then I got busy until I totally forgot about it and now I have to make it because it's about to expire! lol! I promise that this will be the last time I am baking something from an instant box. To make up for this I will be making frosting from scratch. I just followed instructions nothing too ...