There are those whose fall-filled nostalgia elicits the thought of Thanksgiving, namely the central Thanksgiving food: pie. So in order to help induce fall food-cravings, my friend and I decided to tackle the creation of a pie.

So, we undertook the challenge that is to create cupcakes and properly decorate them, like the much more skilled and highly-trained Goldberg and Valastro.

Sitting at home on a Saturday night, what better thing to do than to begin the tumultuous process of making homemade macarons. People warned me that it would be a difficult journey, but I never could have envisioned that it would turn out as horribly as it did.