Making Macarons?

My mum has been making coconut macarons ever since I can remember. And even though it's so hard for me to name out my favourite food, I can, however, say with confidence that macarons are one of my favourite foods ever!

Until I discover that there are actually more, different types of macarons! It was love at first bite. However, they're always so expensive! Like, when we went to Macquarie University's Open Day last year, one macaron each was like, $3! But, again, Costco saved the day for us just a few days ago and this whole box of vanilla, pistachio, strawberry and chocolate-flavoured macarons for $6 only!

But it wasn't only recently that I've begun to venture out into the world of cooking that I've ever wondered how I can make these heavenly desserts by myself. But turns out today was a lucky day for me! I was in Big W, helping April shop for school supplies and noticed this book which they only sold for $15!

The book isn't very huge, and it doesn't have a million macaron recipes on it. But. It does teach about the basics of macaron-making quite thoroughly, from how to make the most of the ingredients, what tools are best to make macarons etc. They have some of the basic macaron recipes, like vanilla and pistachio-flavoured ones, to some of the more complex ones like 'macarons de fancy'. Ooh, fancy!

I saw another recipe book, a cake cookbook, and it was only around $7. The book has more recipes than in this macaron book, and I really want to buy it next week when I go school-supply shopping (I don't know what books I'm supposed to use for university so I'm just gonna wait until tomorrow when I'm going to USYD to ask!). Anyway. I hope I can really start making macarons, but first apparently I gotta buy these things called a 'piping bag' in order to make the shells (the patty-looking covers) for the macarons! Apparently they sell them in Woolworths, so fingers, toes and eyes crossed that they really do sell them there! Can't wait to make my first macaron!