With 15 years in the pastry business, a French baker says only in the last few years has the macaron scene exploded.

Since 2011, Sandrine Martin has been baking macarons for International Macaron Day. The event hails from France, and is celebrated with proceeds from the bake sales going to local charities.

Martin, with her team of eight employees at Sandrine French Pastry and Chocolate, makes anywhere from 50 to 200 of the colourful treats a day.

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Made in house at the store91裸聊视频檚 location on Dilworth Drive, the pastries are also sold at Urban Fare and at Kelowna General Hospital.

Martin always had a passion for food and comes from a family of chocolatiers, pastry chefs and bakers.

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With two children, who were six at eight when they moved to the Central Okanagan, she said that it91裸聊视频檚 an easier industry to transition into anywhere in the world.

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The biggest challenge she said, was not adjusting the baking to suit Canadian palates, but more the communication of what the products actually were.

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For first timers, she recommends the macarons and the mille feuilles cake.

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