Easy Salted Caramel Macaron Recipe!

Hii, 

So today I made salted caramel french macarons and the turned out really well, so I thought I'd share the recipe because it was so delicious!

Ingredients:

To make the actual Macarons: (makes about 20 macarons) 
 220g (7.76 ounces) icing sugar
120g (4.23 ounces) ground almonds
120 g (4.23 ounces) egg whites (3-4 medium egg whites)
80g (2.82 ounces) caster sugar

To make the buttercream filling:

Half a teaspoon of salt

Caramel Flavouring (1 Cap full)

140g (5 ounces) Butter, Softened

280g (10 ounces) Icing sugar

1-2 tbsp milk 

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• *Preheat oven to 150C, exactly.
• *Sift together the icing sugar and ground almonds using a sieve. Get rid of  any gritty bits of ground almonds that do not go through the sieve.
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  *Beat together the egg whites and caster sugar on high speed until they are stiff enough that you can turn the bowl upside down without them falling out.  Beat for an additional 2 minutes.  Add the almond icing sugar mixture and fold in using a spatula.  Keep gently folding until the mixture looks like lava, but it can't be runny.
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  *Spoon into a piping bag or food storage bag (Like me) and pipe small circles of mixture onto  baking paper. Slide onto a baking tray and bang on the bench firmly several times on each side.
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  if you are using a food storage bag, spoon the mixture in, push down to a corner and snip of the end of the corner, this will work like a piping bag. This is an easier method than the piping bag because you can just throw it away afterwards!

  *Place in the oven (you do not need to leave them to sit on the bench with this recipe) and bake until a foot has formed and the shells are crisp.  This takes roughly 20 minutes. Don't open the oven (as I found out after my first batch) because this will crack them and make them collapse and they'll also be hollow!
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  *Cool and then gently peel off the baking paper and pair similar sized shells.
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  FOR THE BUTTERCREAM FILLING
• *Mix together the Icing Sugar and Butter until slightly combined.
• *Then add as much milk as needed to make it combine fully
• *Add a cap full of the caramal flavouring and mix
• *Spoon onto one half of the macaroon and sandwich them together
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  These would also be nice as little gifts or something like that, if you put them in a plastic wrapper like me. (I got them from home bargains for 99p!)

There You Go!

Give them a try because they are seriously so yummy!
Byyye 

Daisy xx


 *all these photos are my own, taken with my own camera.

Overnight Beauty

Hiii

As you probably know, it's super important to take all your make up off and look after your skin, so I thought that I'd share with you a couple of my things that I like to do before I go to bed to help keep my skin nice and healthy. 

*Holds hands up* I did sort of get this idea from, the post on the HSN site will probably give you a more professional way of doing it, and since I read the post, I have been using a couple of the tips ALOT. 

 

HSN-4 OVERNIGHT BEAUTY PRODUCTS YOU SHOULD BE USING

 

Feel free to go and see that post, but anyway- 

What I like to do before I go to bed is:

1. Take off my make up with Bioderma. I LOVE this stuff it's so amazing and probably one of the best micellar waters I've ever tried. It gets your make up of so quickly!

2. Cleanse my face with a Cleanser. I really like the soap and glory one, and I'd really recommend it because it works a treat!

3. Apply an overnight repair cream. I like the Argan Oil one, and it's super cheap, but I know that there are a couple of better (and more expensive) ones on the market.

That's basically all I do on a normal night. (I'm not including face masks because that's more of a 'pamper evening' sort of thing) Thanks for reading this really long post!

Oooh also, if you want to 'revamp' your night time skin care I'd DEFINITELY suggest looking at buying something off the HSN site .. I've ordered a couple of things off there after having a good look through some of the products and they look really promising!

Lots of Love

Dais xx

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Lots of Love
Daisy xx

Lush Haul!

Hiii,
If you read my last post you will know that i'm giong to be be doing posts on what I got in the winter sales, but I was spreading it out. This is what I got from Lush in their sale. I'm going to  be doing reviews on all of these, and even though its not christmas anymore, it's still winter, and you can still get these bath bombs in the sale! So, if you do like anything i'd get it while you can before its gone!

 I got the Rose Jam Shower Gel, this smells so so yummy, like roses!
This was super cheap, I think it was like £2.00!

 Santa's Lip Scrub, I think this was £2.25 (Half price)

 This is the melting snowman and it's so cute! It smells lovely too, I think this was £1.75

 This one is called 'Snowman' and it smells so nice (like all lush bath bombs)  this was £1.75 too.

 This is the Ma Bar Bubble Bar, it obviously a bubble bar, this was £1.90 I think and I cant wait to use it!

This is the Golden Wonder Bath Bomb, I'm super excited to use this becuase  it smells really nice! This was £1.75 I think,

Through the week I'll be reviewing everything here! Soooo, see ya soon? haha byeeee
Daisy xx