Macaroons - YUK Almonds who would have thought!!!

I have recently been watching the great British bake off, a simple premise for a feel good programme, Paul and Mary being wonderful and even when they had to say something was bad, they were so nice about it, and made the contestants feel OK about the comments.  Any way I digress,  I decided to have a go at some of the things i had seen on the show, on of which being Macaroons,  i purchased the ingredients and read and re read the recipe - (not a usual trait)  and set about making my first ever macaroons,  they were to be pink to please my 6 year old whisking and beating went on for several hours and finally they went into the oven, 12 minutes later and after a little cooling - my first taste of my not to bad looking macaroons, ..........
YUK they taste of almonds and like those awful amaretto biscuits my mother loves except without the alcohol !!!  it then occurred to me that the ingredients had included ground almonds amongst the egg white and icing sugar............ but i had expected them to taste like they looked like tiny meringues..... man was i disappointed!   still learnt something valuable, ground almonds make things taste of almonds.   I think i will stick to making the victoria sponge and vanilla biscuits and put thoughts of Great British Bake off out of my head,  although i can say the golden syrup cake from the pink whisk website is MEGA and definatly doesn't taste of almonds!!!!!!!