Weekly baking - (deflated) grapefruit macarons

This week's baking - failed and deflated grapefruit macarons

Recipes: almond macaron with grapefruit zest and grapefruit buttercream
I call them deflated because I messed up the step where the egg whites should peak. Apparently, any trace of oil (including zest) makes egg whites impossible to stiffen up. Flavors were all there despite the cookies being chewy. Good lesson learned!

Highlights from UW campus

Cherry blossoms are blooming at the UW Quad

UW Quad

Line of cherry blossom trees

Closeup

Subtle beauty...

Also finally visited the Suzzallo Library building

Suzzallo Library exterior

The Suzzallo Reading Room

Weekly baking - gluten free muffins

This week's baking - Gluten free muffins

Recipe here - I used maple syrup instead of honey and made a bigger batch due to the portion sizes of my apple sauce cups. The right side is topped with pecans, the left side is filled with chocolate chips.

These are lightly cake-ey and mildly sweet. Very nice for those who are gluten-intolerant. Highly recommend using paper liners.

Weekly baking

So far this year, I have baked something each week. It's become sorta a weekly mission. And it's time I start posting the yummy results.

This week's fun - Orange curd shortbread bars

Recipes used: shortbread bars plus clementine curd

I needed to use up leftover curd from making clementine macarons last week. Tasty, sticky, and quite a bit thinner than I expected. Not bad though.