Anyway for this reason I decided
to try and bake something that was festive but not the typical Christmas cake
or pudding as those will be eaten in a few weeks’ time. So the next most Christmassy food (bar
sprouts and turkey) is of course the Chocolate Orange.
If you have never had one of
these at Christmas you need to sort yourself out. Seriously.
So the chocolate orange macaroon
torte seemed like a good bet. It is basically a chocolate orange mousse on a
macaroon and as I have never made a mousse or a macaroon it was all new to me!
It was actually relatively
simple, there was a lot of whipping involved (thank the lord for electric
whisks, is all I can say) and after that you just kind of plop the mousse on
the macaroon that I made earlier and put it in the fridge over night to set.
However….. I don’t think I did it
completely right….
The macaroon base was quite moist
but the author describes it as being firm…. So that is obviously not right. I
don’t really know what went wrong consistency wise but the taste was good
despite being quite adult as the chocolate was 70% cocoa. But it was good and
the orange really came through.
I decorated it with orange peel because I felt it would add a bit of colour to a very brown pudding
make it more jolly!
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