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White coconut cake with coconut frosting from Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe

Nice crumb on the cake texture, and the frosting is not overly sweet. The directions are very detailed to ensure your success. The only change I made was to toast the coconut for garnishing, just a personal... read more >

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MACARONS

By CLAIRE DAMON, AKIKO IDA
MARABOUT (ÉDITIONS) - 2000

I was disappointed with this book. I bought it based on the fact that Claire Damon (Paris pastry chef/baker) was listed as the author. This is not true. The real author is Jose Maréchal, and while the book is ok, it's not what I thought I was buying. It didn't help that there was a 2-month delay when I pre-ordered it on Amazon.

This book does give instructions in french to make macarons, both the shells and the fillings, but no new information that I didn't already have in other cookbooks.

For a single-subject book, this might be ok if you have never made macarons before and don't have any other books with recipes for them, but I can't recommend the purchase.