You may know this already, some recipes allow certain margins of error, that even when you fail, your dishes would still turn out alright :). That is not the case for French Macaroon - you either get it or not (as you can see from my pictures below, 2 weeks apart.) This is one of the dishes that I am obsessed with and have always wanted to learn. I tried my first batch in 2012, and it did not turn out close to the first picture. My second try was a month ago, and though they tasted like a macaroon, they did not look like one. Third time's the charm, I finally got it right!