Fall macaron flavors come in different tastes from sweet to savory. Fall macaron flavors are made with pumpkin spice, cream cheese, apples, caramel, cinnamon and chai tea.
Fall macarons can be made with a flavored outer shell, such as adding cinnamon, freeze dried apples, or vanilla beans.
A few of the autumn macaron flavors include 2 center fillings to give them a burst of flavor.
Pumpkin Spice Macarons
Pumpkin spice macarons are made with a flavored outer shell. The outer shell has all-spice, cloves, and nutmeg mixed into the almond batter to give the macarons the “spiced” part of pumpkin spice.
The pumpkin spice macaron filling is made with a butter cream base. Pumpkin puree, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg are added to the buttercream filling.
When assembling the macarons, the filling is a ring of pumpkin spice macaron filling, and then the center is a small amount of caramel sauce.
These pumpkin spice macarons have a little bit of a sweet finish with the caramel sauce center.
Caramel Apple Macarons
Caramel apple macarons are made with an apple flavored outer shell.
Granny smith apples are freeze dried, and then blended in a food processor to get a fine apple flavored powder.
The powder is places into the almond flour base and mixed into the macaron shell. Once the batter has been made and piped, a sprinkle of apple powder is dusted on the tops of the macarons to let them dry into the macaron shells.
The center filling is made with making a caramel sauce. There is an option of making the caramel sauce into a salted caramel sauce if desired.
Apple Pie Macarons
Apple pie macarons are made with an apple sauce filling and a cream cheese icing.
The apple sauce filling is made with apples, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. The sauce is thickened and cooled prior to piping.
The cream cheese icing is vanilla flavored. The cream cheese icing is piped around the edges of the macaron to make a ring.
The apple sauce is placed in the center of the macaron. These macarons have a spiced apple and cream cheese flavor, creating apple pie tasting macarons.
Pumpkin Macarons
Pumpkin macarons are made with a flavored pumpkin outer shell. The outer shell is flavored with pumpkin spice bakery emulsion.
An emulsion is similar to an extract in that it gives the flavor to the baked good. The filling is made with a buttercream flavored with pumpkin puree and cinnamon for the perfect fall macaron treat.
Chai Tea Macarons
Chai tea macarons are made with a hint of cinnamon in their outer shells.
The filling of the chai tea macarons is made by heating heavy cream with chai tea. The tea is left to steep for 30 minutes to infuse the chai flavors into the heavy cream. The cream is strained, and then poured into a stand mixer with butter and powdered sugar.
Cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, vanilla extract, and ginger are added to create the chai buttercream filling for these chai tea macarons.
Cinnamon Roll Macarons
Cinnamon roll macarons are made with cinnamon and nutmeg in their outer shells.
The center filling is made with a cream cheese buttercream icing. To add a little bit more sweetness, there is a caramel sauce filling to the center filling as well.
Orange and Dark Chocolate Macarons
Orange and dark chocolate macarons are made with a vanilla bean outer shell. The center filling is a orange zest infused dark chocolate ganache.
Orange dark chocolate macarons have a rich and citrus flavor.
The outer shell is colored with orange gel food coloring or powdered food coloring to give it the vibrant orange color against the dark chocolate filling color.
