Meringues, Peanut Brittle, S'mores, Brownies, and more!

What's more fun than dessert? A mini dessert table with LOTS of desserts!

Mini S'mores Cupcakes

Mini s'mores cupcakes. They taste just like the real thing, but with more marshmallow and chocolate.

These baby cupcakes have a sweet graham cracker bottom crust.

The cake is chocolate with graham cracker pieces and more graham cracker crumble on top.

The topping is marshmallow frosting, which I then gleefully attacked with a blowtorch.

So adorable and so easy to eat. Everyone had a few because they're so hard to resist! My favorite thing about these cupcakes is that they don't have to be perfect. The marshmallow frosting droops a little and sometimes they're torched unevenly, but I think that just adds to their charm.

Don't you agree?

Chocolate Macarons 2-Ways AND a Macaron Cake

I went on a macaroon-making binge. I made about 70 for an order. Then made more for a cake. Then made more for a party. I can't even tell you have many egg yolks I had in my fridge, but it was so worth it. Wanna see?

These macarons are filled with a rich chocolate ganache - my favorite!

I experimented with a few recipes. These puffy macarons were made with David Lebowitz's recipe, found here. They were tasty, reliable, and pretty easy to make, but I wanted a more shiny, classic-looking macaron.

Then I put the macarons on a cake. Why? Because I can.

By the way, this is a double chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache and fresh raspberries, covered in more dark chocolate ganache.  You can stop drooling now.

 Yes, the cake is displayed on an upside down cookie sheet. I'm a college student, don't judge. The macaron recipe, by the way, is from here. The were pretty and yummy, but kinda finicky and I'm not totally in love with this recipe yet. I'll keep searching.

And another batch of chocolate macarons, David Lebowitz's recipe again. There's something to be said for consistency!

 These little gems were filled with a marshmallow fluff/chocolate ganache swirl.

 And then they were rolled in graham cracker crumbs.

Yes, s'mores macarons! Chocolate shells, fluff/ganache filling, and graham cracker crumbs. The only thing that would have made them better is to make the marshmallow filling from scratch and attack it with a blowtorch before sandwiching them to give it that campfire taste. These kept in the fridge for well over a week and they were so yummy. Very messy because the filling oozed all over until they had some fridge time to set, but it was worth it.

You'll definitely want to be licking the spoon for these. Want to know my favorite thing about macarons?

They're so easy to eat!