Have you ever had the stressful but delicious pleasure of making macarons? Not to be confused with their American, less diva-like cousin, the macaroon. A few weeks ago I was naively was like, I want to make a macaron that tastes like mint chocolate chip ice cream. I didn’t think they’d be that stressful. OMG was I wrong. I knew they were gonna be fickle, I just didn’t know how fickle they’d actually be. Here are some tips I learned along the way: 1. Buy almond meal. It saves a big step and just makes the whole process go so much faster and easier by being able to skip the step of making almond flour. 2. Collect all of the ingredients beforehand. I always say this but with these, I actually really mean it. 3. If you’re oven is fickle, i.e, an old oven or an electric oven, these might be more stressful than usual. You should still make them! But they’ll make you realize that your oven might have more hot spots that you thought you had. 4. Weigh everything. This recipe is in grams because precision matters A LOT with these. 5. If you fail. Like, they crack …

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