Jungle Macs

The MacTweets Macaron challenge this month was Adventure.   I don't have much of that in my life currently.  Don't get me wrong.  I love my life.  I really do, but I am on the tail-end of parenting.  The most adventure I've had lately is the drama of trying to attend every end-of-the-school-year function.  Deeba and Jamie wrote a great post using the jungle, Tarzan, Jane, and Cheeta pictures.


This is my "Cheeta".  He is the sock monkey from Itty-Bitty Toys by Susan B. Anderson that I just happened to have been knitting for a awhile.  I finished knitting him today.  I rushed home from the knitting session and put together my macs (again the adventure was trying to get them finished on time). 

I've been experimenting with different nut flours.  This time I used peanut.  What monkey doesn't like peanuts? And bananas, and coconut?  And these macs just screamed out for a little chocolate ganache; the best jungles should all be stocked with chocolate, in my humble opinion.


 I laid out half of my macs and put vanilla Italian meringue butter cream on them, and sprinkled some flaked coconut and chopped peanuts on top.  The second half of the macs were covered with ganache and a thin slice of fresh banana.  When you "smoosh" (that's a technical term) the two sides together, make sure that the fillings totally enclose the banana slices or they will turn brown.

 Just refrigerate the macs for a few days and then devour them.  You'll want to - I promise.  THESE ARE GOOD!  Not the average mac, but so tasty and flavorful and the banana is the hidden surprise.  Now that's adventurous, right?

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