UAE National Day

Today I baked cupcakes for UAE National Day and I will give away these sweets to my close friends and colleagues. I made a chocolate cake from hersheys recipe and the merengue buttercream from Martha Stewart recipe. I did well in making the buttercream for the first time, white eggs perfomed well to create a stiff volume, the eggs are of high quality while the kitchen temperature was perfect  in creating the merengue for one attempt. The buttercream were so smooth and soft and lasted for 4 days outside the fridge. 

I hope I could make merengue buttercream as easy as possible to create an actual round or square cakes. 

Happy UAE National Day folks!!!

French Macarons

The dessert that I love most are the real french macarons from la duree, paul, fushion, angelina, and jeff bourouf (i forgot the spelling!?) from it's round outer look youll know for sure that it is a great pastry. The expensive ones are with golden touch of 24K edible gold. These are from my husband's restaurant, pretty standard but it tasted good with green tea or coffee. 

I didnt read the history behind these small round pastries but definitely there are my faves, so tiny, sweet and easy to munch in. I love it!!!