So, how else can I bring the holiday flavours without the artificial nastiness? Well, around that time, Meow's FIL brought back from France two macrons books...
Yes, you may hate me now for owning this
LEGEND...wait for it...ARY book.
Unfortunately, Monsieur Herme didn't have anything inspiring, or rather, easy to make in a home kitchen. However, there was a recipe in the Macarons et Gourmandises book that seemed intriguing, and it involved this:
You've guessed right if you said "spiced wine"! Though the recipe in the book lets you make a spiced wine jelly. Well, jelly is kinda slippery and can't exactly be transported, so I figured if I can make it into a buttercream. Meow's logic goes that if you can put fruit puree and other goopy stuff into a buttercream to flavour it, then this could work. So, Mr. Meow got to decipher the French because he was about to clobber me over the head for reading it in an awful accent.
