Macaroons by Donna Hay

When I made macaroons for the first time, I didn't pass so I made them for the second time on the 26th of March. This time to make macaroons, I used Donna Hay's making macaroons box which contains all the ingredients in it and the instructions.

A macaroon is basically a sweet meringue based confectionery made with eggs, icing sugar, granulated sugar and ground almonds. It is commonly filled with Ganache, buttercream or a jam filling. It can be found in a wide variety of flavours. I filled my macaroons with a chocolate ganache which required chocolate and cream. 

From my experience of making macaroons, I think that they have a very easy recipe but they are very hard to get right. The temperature, the consistency, it all matters a lot. But even though I passed and my 10 dishes are over, I will make macaroons again until I get it perfect. 

MARKS: 

	Sanya (me)	Rakesh (dad)	Rekha (mom)	Sonal (sister)	Katya (friend)
Presentation	4.5	4	4	4	4
Taste	4	3.5	3.5	3.5	4.5
Texture	4	3.5	4	4	5
Overall	4	4	4.5	4	4.5

TOTAL: 21/25

Marble Cake by Rachel Allen

On the 17th of march I made my tenth and final dish which was Marble cake. I used Rcahel Allen's recipe to make it. Marble cake is a cake with a streaked or marbled appearance which is achieved very lightly blending light and dark batter. Normally vanilla and chocolate. The ingredients used are very easy to get.

To get the marble like texture, first you have to make the vanilla cake batter and then divide the batter into 2. Next you have to add the cocoa powder into one of them. To prepare the tin, the spoon the 2 mixtures alternatively and then gently make swirls through the mixture. 

Making it was a lot of fun, specially doing the marbling effect. The main problem in the dish was that the chocolate parts in the cake were dry and not so tasty, but the vanilla part was amazing and also the cake looked really nice. 

MARKS:

	Sanya (me)	Rakesh (dad)	Rekha (mom)	Sonal (sister)	Katya (friend)
Presentation	5	4	4.5	4.5	4
Taste	3.5	3	4	3.5	4.5
Texture	4	3	3.5	3.5	5
Overall	4.5	3.5	4	4	4.5

TOTAL: 20.5/25

Link for the recipe: http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/recipes/8976/chocolate-and-vanilla-marble-cake

Cheesecake By Nigella Lawson

Yesterday, in the afternoon I decided to make my ninth dish. I had chosen my recipe since a week now and finally I made it yesterday. I chose Nigella Lawson's recipe for this dish.

Cheesecake is a dessert consisting primarily of a mixture of soft and fresh cheese, sugar and eggs. It is often spooned on a crust made from hard biscuit crumbs, pastry or sponge cake. It may be baked or also unbaked. It can have various toppings and flavours.

My recipe was a filtered and an easier version of the normal cheesecake and it consisted of very few ingredients.

The experience was fairly new to me as I have never made a cheesecake before. It was quite exciting and easy to do. I was never really fond of the idea of cheesecakes until recently when i tried a cheesecake in a cafe called big chill and since then I wanted to make it myself. After making it, I had to let it set for a minimum of 3 hours. 

Marks:

	Sanya (me)	Sonal (sister)	Rekha (mom)	Rakesh (dad)	Katya (friend)
Presentation	4.5	3.5	4	3	4.5
Taste	5	4	4.5	3.5	3.5
Texture	5	4.5	4.5	4	4
Overall	5	4	4.5	4	4.5

TOTAL: 22/25

I am quite satisfied with my marks and now that I can make a normal cheesecake, I will definitely explore more variation of it. 

Link for the recipe: http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/cherry-cheesecake-34