PrintSugar Rush: New Macaron Flavors at Eleven Madison Park
Eleven Madison Park rolled out a new line of macarons on their dessert menu last week. The flavors range from the curious to the rather delicious.
From left to right in the above photo: hazelnut and brown butter, peanut butter and jelly, chocolate-banana, candied violet, black olive and white chocolate, pistachio-rose, and toasted sesame.
Peanut butter holds a bright smidgen of jelly in the center, black olive and white chocolate is a memorable combination with a savory tang, but the pistachio-rose was my personal favorite. Flavors are among the most interesting we've seen recently, though its tiny size—smaller than a typical macaron, but larger than the ones served at Jean Georges—make it impossible to achieve macaron perfection in terms of texture. As far as the classic macarons in this city go, Itzy Bitzy Patisserie still holds the crown (here are the special flavors for April).
Eleven Madison Park
11 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10010 (map)
212-889-0918
elevenmadisonpark.com
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Aloha,
Thanks for putting up the picture of the new macarons at Eleven Madison Park.
I've had them as well. I don't think they are too small though, they are just the right size for what they are, mignardise.
At Paul Bocuse's L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges and at Taillevent in Paris, the mignardise macarons are the same size. I don't believe there is a typical size macaron. It depends on the purpose of the macaron. For example, at Pierre Hermé, there are the smaller macarons, the larger individual size and the very large entremet size. Everyone makes their macarons different sizes.
The size does not affect the texture. A small or large macaron from the same appareil, baked according to size, would result in the same texture.
They are independent things.
The macarons at Eleven Madison Park have good texture. To say that the small size makes it impossible to achieve macaron perfection in terms of texture is ridiculous!
kuuipo at 1:43PM on 04/16/09