Macaroons!

The OH bakes occasionally, when the mood takes him and I let him near the baking oven. He'd been muttering for a while about trying some macaroons and last week he finally got  around to making some. 

Herewith the photographic evidence

They were a bit of  a disappointment to him to be honest. When he added the hot sugar syrup to his beaten egg whites all the air came out of them. So the mixture ended up difficult to pipe and they came out as quite large but flat discs rather than the super little puffed up circles they are meant to be.  

Like the OH and myself, they improved with age, and tasted nicely of almond. They weren't macaroons, but they were things not totally unlike macaroons, and I daresay he will have another go one of these days. 

And maybe we will order some real ones from Betty's of Harrogate for my birthday, if we remember.