MDBD - Nerdy Nummies Edition - Moon Phase Macaroons

Zoey absolutely loves the YouTube show Nerdy Nummies and the host Ro. She could watch her videos all day. She loves her so much that I almost considered driving 8 hours to take Zoey to see Ro when she was doing her cookbook tour. However, reason got the better of me and we didn't go. Zoey did get the Nerdy Nummies cookbook for her birthday and she will spend hours reading it to herself. Anyhow, when she got the cookbook I decided that I would spend 2016 making recipes from the cookbook each week for Mommy Daughter Bake Day. It's taken a couple of weeks to get going with it, but today was our first MDBD Nerdy Nummies Edition.

When I asked Zoey what recipe she wanted to make she initially picked the Earth Cake. However,  decided that was a little too ambitious for our first recipe, so I made her pick a different one. She ended up going with Moon Phase Macaroons, which I figured we could manage. I was wrong!!!!

What they are supposed to look like (pg 95of the cookbook)

Now normally when I do a MDBD blog post I go through the recipe and list everything out. I am not going to do that this time because as far as I know the recipe has never been published online and Ro has not done a video for this one. I don't want to break any copyright laws.

Ready to bake

 

 Zoey's Introduction

Ingredients for the Macaroons

Tools We Needed (Zoey's favorite part of the cookbook is pg 16-19 where it lists all the tools and candy)

Using our new sifter for the first time

So during this phase of the process, everything seemed to be going ok. I can not pinpoint anything that I should have done differently. I'm guessing that maybe I needed to beat the mixture for longer than I did, but that is just a guess. What happened is that when I piped the batter onto the cookie sheet, the batter spread out a little bit. Nothing crazy, but enough that I noticed it. When they came out of the oven, they had not puffed up as much as they were supposed to and the foot layer spread out more than the top layer.

 

 Filling Intro

Ingredients for the filling

The filling is probably the only part of this process that didn't have any problems. It all mixed up ok and I got the coloring right. Wish I would have taken a picture that showed the filling better. 

 Frosting Intro

Ingredients for Royal Icing

This part is the straw that broke the camel's back. I could deal with the kind of flat cookies, but the icing mistake made it so these looked nothing like they were supposed to. I 100% know what the problem here was. I ran out of powdered sugar and did not have enough to get the proper consistency. I tried to ice them anyhow and it was way to runny. The icing literally ran out of the piping bag. I just gave up after the first three. We also put too much gold food coloring in and I couldn't get the right yellow as a result. 

Finished Product

My final grade for this MDBD was a D. They looked terrible, but they still tasted pretty good, so they weren't a total fail.

Zoey's Post MDBD Analysis