{"id":324,"date":"2012-06-24T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2012-06-24T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T15:45:12","slug":"rose-macarons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"rose macarons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"rose mac stack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/7432612144\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5116\/7432612144_b14bb6d162_z.jpg\" alt=\"rose mac stack\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve made rose-flavored macarons before&#8211; they were perfectly pink, studded with finely chopped pistachios, and they were not very rosy. I was relying only on the flavoring powers of rose water when I made that first batch, and it takes quite a bit of it to impart much rosiness. When <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=234\" target=\"_blank\">a friend<\/a> requested pink macarons as part of her cat-sitting fee, I knew I had to amp up my rose flavor arsenal and try again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"rosy ingredients\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/7432613180\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7257\/7432613180_7a3a7cec8d_z.jpg\" alt=\"rosy ingredients\" width=\"576\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a>After a trip to my favorite Indian grocery, I&#8217;d supplemented my rose water with some extract and rose petal spread, which is essentially a rose jam. It&#8217;s not the prettiest looking stuff&#8211; it&#8217;s brownish and contains tiny bits of intact petals, but it packs a lot of flavor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I got to work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=123\" target=\"_blank\">macarons<\/a>, adding only a few drops of the extract and a smidge of red food coloring. I knew I&#8217;d need only a slightly sweetened filling to foil the super saccharine rose jam, so I made a batch of mascarpone frosting that was just barely sweetened and scented with a bit of rose water. In the very center of each macaron, hidden behind a ring of frosting, I tucked a tiny bit of rose petal spread:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"rose macarons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/7432611122\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8144\/7432611122_16e6608ea1_z.jpg\" alt=\"rose macarons\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>Now, I think I&#8217;ve got rose macarons down pat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made rose-flavored macarons before&#8211; they were perfectly pink, studded with finely chopped pistachios, and they were not very rosy. I was relying only on the flavoring powers of rose water when I made that first batch, and it takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}