Spent $80 on a digital scale and it's the only reason my macarons work now

My old cup measurements were off by enough to make hollow shells every single time. Anyone have a good buttercream recipe that pairs with pistachio?

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3 Comments

gracem321mo ago

Eighty bucks for a scale does seem like a lot to me, but hall.alex has a point about the paste.

hall.alex1mo ago

Scales are a total game changer, right? A good pistachio buttercream is just ground nuts in a basic American buttercream. The real trick is using a high quality paste, not just extract. Have you tried browning the butter first? It adds a deeper, nutty flavor that works so well with pistachio.

claire95817d ago

Oh man, browning the butter is such a good call. It makes all the difference with nut flavors. I totally get where @gracem32 is coming from on the price, but a decent scale really does help you nail the ratios every single time, especially for something finicky like grinding your own nuts. Cheap extract can taste so fake and bitter compared to a good paste.