The Great bake-off 2; biscuits

Signature biscuits

When I was little, we used to make fork cakes. They are good. :-)

Finnish Fork cakes

100 g / 3 1/2 oz softened butter
1 dl / 1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
3 1/4 dl / 1 1/3 cups flour
3/4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg whisking it in.
Mix the dry ingredients and mix in the batter.
Roll the dough into a log and cut into 30 pieces. Roll into bolls, put on a baking paper on the oven sheet, and push down with a floured fork.
Bake in 200C about 10 minutes.

Though I think those are way too simple and... basic :-D

Maybe sandwich them together with something nice. It's a very neutral biscuit flavor, so it goes well with anything. I think I'll fill it with Nøtte (which I remember as a combination of caramel and hazelnut butter, but apparently there isn't any caramel in it, it's just sweetened hazelnut butter made with roasted hazelnuts. But mine would be caramel (or kinuski, to be honest) and hazelnut butter. About 50% of both.)

Technical challenge; brandy snaps

I think it's hilarious that they have ginger snaps as technical challenge, because oat snaps were about the first things Finnish and Swedish kids bake, because it's so dang easy! And even though they are often let to dry flat, they are as often let to dry curved or "cigarred". Yeah, you have to move fast. 

Showstopper: macarons

maple bacon

orange cream

poppy macarons (red with poppy seed filling)

mahogany (caramel au beurre salé, noix de coco et compote de mangue)
So... perhaps replace 1/3 of the almonds with coconut, pulse it a bit finer than shredded coconut, but not to coconut flour
Fill with salted caramel butter cream and some mango jam.

chocolate banana

Pierre Hermé's Mahogany

I am sorry but at the age of internet, you cannot excuse your failure with "I really have no idea what they are supposed to be like, what the mixture is supposed to be like, what the finished product is supposed to be like".

Tasty.co has a very informative video about macarons. They go through basically EVERYTHING. And you can see very clearly what the mixture is supposed to be like, what the finished product is supposed to be like. 

Sally's baking addiction has also a very good tutorial on how to make macarons

And here's a video with absolutely perfect macarons:

And then check out some macaron eating ASMR video to get a sense of what they are supposed to be, if you are still uncertain about it.