Shropshire baker's macarons are sweet perfection
With their beautiful colours, delicate, melt-in-your-mouth texture and endless flavour combinations, macarons are a sweet treat enjoyed all over the world.
Keen baker George Evans set himself the challenge of perfecting these attractive French delicacies at the start of 2019.
Now he sells his macarons to customers up and down the country and is a regular face at artisan fairs and events around his home county of Shropshire.
"I'm not professional trained but I've always baked from a young age with my mum. I lost touch with it when I went to university where I studied geology, more because of money than anything else.
"When I came back home and started working, I got back into baking properly," explains George, who lives in Telford.
With his passion for baking reignited, he applied to become a contestant on the Great British Bake Off in 2019.
"I got to the penultimate audition round. On the back of being so close to doing something with baking, I wanted to find a way of carrying on.
"I was thinking about what I could do and I landed on perfecting macarons. I wanted to learn how to make them properly. The process is very technical, there are lots of things that can go wrong. I wanted to be able to make them without a hitch.
"I bought a book and studied it. I inhaled kilos of icing sugar, burnt my hands countless times on baking trays and cracked hundreds of egg shells, but I mastered it and I was pleased with the product I could consistently turn out.
