June means lavender!

OK girls let's admit it.  We have a thing about lavender. At some point we must have dreamed of standing in the middle of the purple lavender field, burying ourselves in their distinct and mysterious scent.

But yet this is a dream. Only a few of us are lucky enough to visit a lavender field.
There is never a shortage of lavender flavoured pastries/drinks/dishes. However, to us there're more misses than hits. Personally we think most of the time the lavender scent is too overpowering and it gets too strong that they reminds us of air refreshener (lol). And this is the main reason that we hadn't been including lavender in our macaron menu until recently.

We bought dried lavender from a neat market in southern France. When June comes we decided to give a shot. We started testing the flavour by making lavender tea. Searching for the right tea was also a challenge because we didn’t want the aroma in the tea leaves clashing with the lavender. So we ruled out earl grey and jasmine.

We settled on Japanese sencha.        

We mixed grounded sencha and lavender with our white chocolate ganache filling. At the first bite, you will first taste the subtle aroma of sencha mixed with some floral scent. After you finish the entire macaron you can still feel the lavender aftertaste flowing in your mouth.

Just like standing in a lavender field.

Our lavender sencha macarons are now in our summer macaron menu. If you're interested email us at order@fumiotreats.com or message us on our facebook page.