I heard about Ladurée before I went there. Supposedly the best and most unaffordable macaroons on earth. And indeed, it all turned out to be true. Just before leaving for Switzerland, I decided expensive or no, it was the perfect treat to bring Christoph. I got a little box of eight: Two pistachio, two rose, two caramel, and two vanilla. BUT, for the sake of research (and while they were fresh), I had to try just one on the train. And I still had 5 hours of train ride left. I DID put the box neatly away in between each one, determined not to eat them all before I got there. Sigh. Christoph got four, which isn't bad, considering.
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I have read about Laduree and had my doubts about whether or not their macaroons could really be THAT good. But if you say so...well, I guess I'll just have to squirrel some money away for my macaroon budget.
Well, to tell you the truth, I got my chef taste buds out and discovered they are much like the macaroons I make with hazelnut meringue and ganache, but they use a finer sugar for the mirigue and flavor it, then fill it with flavored butter cream (for example, we could add pistachio paste or rosewater to the butter cream. I will be trying this as soon as I have a kitchen. It makes me feel better to pay a lot of money for them though, when I consider how much it would cost me to make them myself. I tried a couple of other places just to make sure it was really worth it. It is.
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