diff --git a/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eacb67eb82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { TestBed, async, tick, fakeAsync } from '@angular/core/testing';
+import { CanvasComponent } from './canvas.component';
+describe('CanvasComponent', () => {
+  beforeEach(async(() => {
+    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
+      declarations: [
+        CanvasComponent
+      ],
+    }).compileComponents();
+  }));
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    window['__zone_symbol__FakeAsyncTestMacroTask'] = [
+      {
+        source: 'HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob',
+        callbackArgs: [{ size: 200 }]
+      }
+    ];
+  });
+  it('should be able to generate blob data from canvas', fakeAsync(() => {
+    const fixture = TestBed.createComponent(CanvasComponent);
+    fixture.detectChanges();
+    tick();
+    const app = fixture.debugElement.componentInstance;
+    expect(app.blobSize).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  }));
+});
+
diff --git a/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f32dbeeb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { Component, AfterViewInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
+
+@Component({
+  selector: 'sample-canvas',
+  template: '<canvas #sampleCanvas width="200" height="200"></canvas>'
+})
+export class CanvasComponent implements AfterViewInit {
+  blobSize: number;
+  @ViewChild('sampleCanvas') sampleCanvas;
+
+  constructor() { }
+
+  ngAfterViewInit() {
+    const canvas = this.sampleCanvas.nativeElement;
+    const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
+    if (context) {
+      context.clearRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
+      context.fillStyle = '#FF1122';
+      context.fillRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
+      canvas.toBlob((blob: any) => {
+        this.blobSize = blob.size;
+      });
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/aio/content/guide/testing.md b/aio/content/guide/testing.md
index 3b556ad2a7..a7518dcc3a 100644
--- a/aio/content/guide/testing.md
+++ b/aio/content/guide/testing.md
@@ -1081,6 +1081,54 @@ In this case, it waits for the error handler's `setTimeout()`;
 The `tick` function is one of the Angular testing utilities that you import with `TestBed`.
 It's a companion to `fakeAsync` and you can only call it within a `fakeAsync` body.
 
+#### Support more macroTasks
+
+By default `fakeAsync` supports the following `macroTasks`.
+
+- setTimeout
+- setInterval
+- requestAnimationFrame
+- webkitRequestAnimationFrame
+- mozRequestAnimationFrame
+
+If you run other `macroTask` such as `HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob()`, `Unknown macroTask scheduled in fake async test` error will be thrown.
+
+<code-tabs>
+  <code-pane
+    path="testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts"
+    title="src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts" linenums="false">
+  </code-pane>
+  <code-pane
+    path="testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts"
+    title="src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts" linenums="false">
+  </code-pane>
+</code-tabs>
+
+If you want to support such case, you need to define the `macroTask` you want to support in `beforeEach`.
+For example:
+
+```javascript
+beforeEach(() => {
+  window['__zone_symbol__FakeAsyncTestMacroTask'] = [
+    {
+      source: 'HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob',
+      callbackArgs: [{ size: 200 }]
+    }
+  ];
+});
+
+it('toBlob should be able to run in fakeAsync', fakeAsync(() => {
+    const canvas: HTMLCanvasElement = document.getElementById('canvas') as HTMLCanvasElement;
+    let blob = null;
+    canvas.toBlob(function(b) {
+      blob = b;
+    });
+    tick();
+    expect(blob.size).toBe(200);
+  })
+);
+```
+
 #### Async observables
 
 You might be satisfied with the test coverage of these tests.
diff --git a/packages/core/testing/src/fake_async_fallback.ts b/packages/core/testing/src/fake_async_fallback.ts
index 7971726465..9e4c2aa028 100644
--- a/packages/core/testing/src/fake_async_fallback.ts
+++ b/packages/core/testing/src/fake_async_fallback.ts
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ export function flushFallback(maxTurns?: number): number {
  */
 export function discardPeriodicTasksFallback(): void {
   const zoneSpec = _getFakeAsyncZoneSpec();
-  const pendingTimers = zoneSpec.pendingPeriodicTimers;
   zoneSpec.pendingPeriodicTimers.length = 0;
 }