Macaroons are the rage these days. Check out this post. Somehow everyone is raving about these almond and egg white confections with a crisp eggshell crust and chewy interior comprising of a chocolate/nut/cream based filling. Its like a high class oreo. Only they’re in rainbow colours, come in a multitude of sizes and are a delightful pairing of complementary flavours. I was in Central Mall for the first time today and came across a wonderful pastry shop Gobi. I bought these 6 pastries for $12.80 and they came in a beautiful box. Had trouble transporting it home though, the pastries sort of melted and smeared onto the box. A quick shot and into the fridge it went to restore its formal glory. I ate one macaroon though. The green one turned out to be mint. It was interesting. There was a grittiness that came from the almonds in the biscuit part. And I think because of the size of it (its about the size of my tooth), I couldn’t make out the flavour of the filling. My guess was that it was a mint cream. But I could be wrong. My tastebuds are not developed enough to sort out details of minute morsels. Each cake is about 4 cm2 in size. The neon toothpick is to spear the tiny things. Anyway the box was for H’s grandma who just went for a cataract op. The other 5 desserts were an opera, mud cake, strawberry something, cherry filled choc cake and an apricot choc cake. I can’t tell you how it tasted but I licked some of the chocolate that smeared on the box during transport and it was pretty good. A little chocolate will cheer any girl up, even at 84. Get well soon nenek!
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