Strawberry and White Chocolate Macaroons

I've had to think long and hard about whether to post this recipe or not. It wasn't the rip roaring success that I was hoping for and my initial jubilation at being successful with macaroons has indeed been short lived. But I did say that this blog would be a record of all my adventures in the kitchen, both the good and the bad, so I decided to post it anyway.

These were made to go alongside a friends birthday present. We were all meeting for lunch today so I was up early this morning making the macaroons and the ganache filling. I forgot to rap the trays hard before leaving the macaroons to set before putting in the oven. They didn't develop a great 'foot' at all but other than that they were OK. I'm not sure how I get the perfectly smooth dooms that all good macaroons should have, my efforts are defiantly more rustic looking. And then the ganache wouldn't set! I've had to promise to make my friend more for the next time I see her, hopefully by then I'll have this caper mastered!

To make them I used the same recipe as the peppermint and nutella macaroons, but I replaced the peppermint flavouring with strawberry and the green food colouring with pink. For the filling I used my favorite white chocolate truffle recipe.

They look a bit on the messy side, but they tasted great! They have all disappeared already!