last night i went down to the lower east side to dessert trucks cafe for a macaron baking class! i fell in love with macarons in paris at laduree, and im really a horrible baker, but i thought it would be fun to know how to make them for parties every day (lets face it, anytime is a good time for a macaron)
it was a nasty, rainy night but braving the weather was so worth it for these yummy treats!
dessert truck’s cute cafe…
the store-made macarons…
time for the workshop! the guy in the picture in the top right corner was the pastry chef….vincent, from france…
in the kitchen, whipping the merengue…
piping the cookies in spring colors…
putting the topping on the cookies (lavender, coconut, cocoa, and sesame seeds)…. i piped the first two vertical rows…
my little bag of treats to take home!
if you are in the lower east side neighborhood i HIGHLY recommend you check out dessert truck for their amazing sweets. and if you are anywhere in NYC, check out their website to see where their truck will be traveling around to that day!
after all those sweets, it was time for dinner! husby met me at katz’s deli (the deli in “when harry met sally” with that famous scene “ill have what shes having”).
this place had ambience out the whazoo! it was so old fashioned and i loved it for that reason.
the cash register…
see the sign hanging that says “this is where they sat in where harry met sally”…
corned beef, pastrami, and full-sour and half-sour deli pickles with lots of spicy brown mustard! yum!
you can tell it was really raining in this last shot. matt said i am just like my dad because ill do anything for a photo. i take that as a compliment 🙂
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