Pâtissière in training

Vegan Mille Crêpes I always thought that vegan baking was pretty much impossible aside from weird fruit balls- but oh, I was wrong. After informing myself more about the movement and its reasoning I decided to give it a try. (I won't go into details WHY, but I encourage everyone to look at available data and decide for themselves how they want to contribute to the world.) After finding a fantastic baking paper from PETA , I was more than excited to try some of these methods. I never thought things like whipped cream, meringue and other things were possible on a plant base. So let's see... Instead of looking for a vegan recipe I simply took a regular crepe recipe and used the vegan baking cheats. Apple sauce instead of eggs, plant milk instead of milk, margarine instead of butter.  In my recipe I used 250 g flour, 500 ml oat/soy milk, 50 g melted margarine, a pinch of salt and sugar. After a few failed first attempts I redid some of the batter but it should add up to a

  Making a macaron gift box Since I was invited to a birthday party, I started thinking about what a original present would be, that pretty much anyone could enjoy. Food is always a good solution for that! I was very inspired by the look of the Ladurée  macaron boxes which pictures I saw wandering all over social media. So I simply made it all myself, and here's how. The biggest part of all was the planning. At first it was time for planning the different flavors. I wanted to bring in lots of staples like chocolate, lemon and such. In the end I decided one the flavors: Chocolate, Strawberry Cheesecake, Lemon, Cookies 'n Cream, Birthday Funfetti Cake, Original (no special flavors added) After deciding on the flavors and designs, I planned the box + design. Since I used a silicone baking mat which I was waiting to use for some time now, I could measure the size of the macarons. With that I was able to calculate the size I would need for my box and then decorated it with