Cheryl impresses yet again with her ability to bake complex French confections without having sampled examples from the source

This time she has taken on the macaron

Chocolate macarons are my favorite

C'est très bon!

Who needs Portos when we have Cheryl! She made a batch of mini guava strudels! Delish!

Cheryl tries a new flavor of macaron ... green tea and guava

I grab the DSLR to better capture how perfect her macarons look

Her macaron are as impressive tasting as they are in appearance and texture. There's only a faint hint of green tea in the cookie, but the guava filling is delish.

Cheryl and Valerie are teaming together in an attempt to follow one of the recipes from Pierre Hermé's macaron cookbook

And if you haven't already guessed, hazelnut will be the featured ingredient in this evening's effort

Hazelnuts are Valerie's favorite nut

Valerie reviews the recipe

And OMG do they smell amazing when roasted. The excitement level ratched up quite a bit as the smell of roasting hazelnuts filled the air.

Valerie wasn't originally going to, but couldn't resist baking an apple pie...and she once again teamed with Cheryl Hasegawa to bake those unbelievably good hazlenut macarons!

Hmmmm...maybe I'll skip dinner and go straight for dessert

Bitter Chocolate Macarons, ready for my belly

Macaron Mogador shells, ready to be filled