Anyway, I happened to notice the Lindt Concept store in Collins street, and seemed to remember someone mentioning something on Twitter about a new flavour of their intense range, so I popped in and noticed Blueberry Intense (which is on for dessert tomorrow) and as I was paying for it – a range of macarons.

Oh well, nothing to lose…bought a pack of six, although if it had been less crowded and the girls in front of my less ditzy about ordering the bloomin’ things, I would have grabbed a couple of different flavours.

They came nicely packaged, and they survived the tram trip home mostly intact (which is sometimes no mean feat for a human, let alone a macaron)

The flavours I think I have landed are Champagne, Strawberry, 70% dark chocolate, hazelnut, pistachio and umm…passionfruit.

Other flavours Milk chocolate, Vanilla, Blackcurrent, Peach, Roselli, Coconut. The Roselli needs to be tried, Rose, ginger and white chocolate ganache.

I decided to “sample” the pistachio before I have to share with JB as it was a “bit squished”.

The shell was coloured, but not flavoured and was chewy with a smooth crispy thin shell, the ganache was nice and soft as I’d been carrying them around with me all afternoon, and they haven’t been refrigerated and it had an OK flavour of pistachio, with a quality white chocolate taste.

Not bad really – certainly better than I expected

Bet they’ll run out the door with all the Masterchef BUZZ about macarons.

**the Champagne one was fragile (broke lifting it) and weirdly smelt boozy but tasted of nothing much at all.

Update: The “strawberry” one actually had no flavour at all besides eggwhite and white chocolate. I was disappointed with the artificial flavour of the passionfruit, I’m not a huge fan of hazelnut flavoured sweets , and therefore the 70% chocolate flavour stood out as being a plausible flavour, and quite a nice one.