Salted Caramel Zumbarons, Adriano Zumbo's macarons

Adriano Zumbo's macarons, otherwise known as "Zumbarons" and they have nothing to do 

with the Zumba dance. 

He has interesting flavours of macarons sold at his outlets and for the DIY enthusiasts, he has boxes of 

macaron kits you can DIY at home. 

There are 3 flavours available in Coles or Woolworths (Australia), and they are Salted Caramel,

Raspberry with Chocolate filling, and Passionfruit. 

I've tried the Salted Caramel one with much success and was a little reluctant to try the Raspberry one, 

But after having tried it, my only regret was not having tried it earlier. 

Here are the first batch of Salted Caramels: 

That's the DIY box you can buy off the shelf.

 

Here they were, all piped out and waiting for the skin to form. 

The kit even comes with a piping bag! 

The kit comes with a stencil that you can use to draw circles for a more uniform size when piping.

Otherwise you could print out the stencil from his website. 

It's pretty much fail-safe, the legs formed without much effort on my part. I wonder what was in the mix?

Well, ok, there is still a chance of failure, as you can see here. The baking temperature was stated as 

160 deg C or 140 deg C if fan-forced oven. And of course, I used 160 deg C fan forced. 

This was just the first batch, and it looked terrible but it tasted yummy nonetheless.