Halloween macarons are a specialty cookie you can make for a Halloween party, or to give out as gifts.
Halloween macarons can be made into different shapes like a pumpkin, witches hat, or Frankenstein.
You can also draw faces onto round macarons so they look like a Jack-o-lantern or a skeleton face.
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Halloween macarons use a couple of different tools to make their embellishments.
You can use what you have at home to color your macarons.
- edible markers
- food safe paint brush
- gold dust (for painting macarons)
- food coloring (for painting macarons)
- almond extract (to create your paint with food coloring to paint your macarons)
- melted chocolate
Halloween macarons can be filled with a variety of macaron fillings including candy corn ganache, black liquorice, cookies and cream, or pumpkin spice.
You can use your favorite macaron recipe and bake for the exact time in your recipe to make these shaped macarons.
Ghost Macarons
Ghost macarons are made using plain macaron batter. They don’t have any food coloring in them, so they have a white color to them.
Pipe ghost macarons by starting at the head. Pipe a circle, and then bring the batter down into a point, and go back up into the head again to complete the ghost. If you need to fill it in a little, add a bit more batter to the center or any part that looks a little light with batter.
Using a toothpick, guide the tail of the ghost into a point. Push the batter down on each side of the tail so the point looks even on both sides.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
Bake and fill the macarons.
You can add eyes and a mouth using an edible marker.
Pumpkin Macarons
Pumpkin macarons are shaped into pumpkins and look more 3 dimensional with the ridges of the pumpkin popping out.
You can make pumpkin macarons by piping orange macaron batter (learn how to color macaron batter) into small circles.
Wait 15 minutes for the small circles to dry, then begin piping the rest of the pumpkin macarons.
Go over the circles with a thinner tipped piping bag to make the ridges.
Start at the side of the pumpkin and make a “C” shape on the edge of the macaron circle. Make another “C” a little further in on the macaron circle. Repeat on the other side of the pumpkin.
Pipe an upside down “J” onto the top of the pumpkin.
You’ll want to pipe the “J” going both ways on different macarons, because it will need to be sandwiched after, so it will line up perfectly.
Therefore you’ll want to pipe half with the “J” going on way, and half going the other way.
Let the macarons dry for 15 minutes.
After the macarons have been baked and filled, you can add a little paint to them to jazz them up.
Make a mix of brown food coloring (powder or gel) and almond extract. Make another mix of green powder or gel food coloring and almond extract.
Using a fine tipped food safe paint brush, you can add brown to the top of the pumpkins for the handle. Add a little green for the vine and leaves if desired.
Bat Macarons
Bat macarons can be made with black, purple, or dark blue macaron batter.
Begin by piping a triangle, but the wider part on the top should be rounded to make a head.
Then pipe the wings, start on one side of the head, and pipe a C going outwards. Then pipe 2 smaller C’s back to back and then into the triangle you made. Repeat on the other side.
Use a toothpick to make the wings and the tail of the bat pointed. Push the batter down to make it into a point.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the bat macarons have baked and been filled, you can start adding the eyes.
Add eyes with an edible marker, or melted white chocolate. You can even add fangs to the bat if desired.
Skeleton Macarons
Skeleton macarons are made using plain macaron batter. They don’t have any food coloring in them, so they have a white color to them.
Skeleton macarons are piped into 1.5″ or 2″ circles.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the macarons been baked and filled, you can add the facial features.
Add eyes, a nose, and a mouth using an edible marker.
You can make the eyes in a variety of shapes to make them happy, angry, or sad – teardrops, triangles, or oval shapes.
The nose you can make by angling 2 oval shapes in the middle of the face below the eyes.
The mouth you can draw by putting a wavy line or a “C” shape. Add stitches after by putting a few short lines perpendicular to the mouth line.
Jack-O-Lantern Macarons
Jack-O-Lantern macarons look like pumpkins that have been carved.
You can make jack-o-lantern macarons by piping orange macaron batter into circles.
Jack-O-Lantern macarons are piped into 1.5″ or 2″ circles.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the macarons been baked and filled, you can add the facial features.
You can add eyes, eye brows, a nose, teeth and a mouth using an edible marker.
Witch Macarons
Witch macarons can be made with black, purple, or dark blue macaron batter.
Pipe the macaron batter in a triangle. Then add a “C” around the edge of the wide part of the triangle.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the macarons been baked and filled, you can add the embellishments of the hat.
Depending on the color you chose to make your witches hat, you might want to use an edible marker, gold dust mixed with almond extract, or melted chocolate to make the ribbon around the bottom edge of the hat.
You can see here I used an edible marker to make the ribbon.
Next, I mixed together a pinch of gold dust, and 1/4 tsp of almond extract to make “paint”.
Then I used a food safe paint brush to make the belt buckle on the witches hat.
Spider Web Macarons
Spider web macarons can be made with white, black, or red macaron batter.
Spider web macarons are piped into 1.5″ or 2″ circles.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the macarons been baked and filled, you can add the spider web decoration onto the macarons.
Using an edible marker, draw a line across the macaron. Then draw a line perpendicular to the line you just drew so it should look like a cross.
Next, draw a diagonal line, and another one so you have 6 lines intersecting.
Draw the web by making small “C’s” in between the 6 diagonal lines.
Frankenstein Macarons
Frankenstein macarons are made by using green or dark blue macaron batter.
Pipe the macaron batter in a rectangle, approximately 2″ x 2″.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the macarons been baked and filled, you can add the facial features.
Use an edible marker to make the hair, draw the hair jagged onto the face, and then round out the edge on the top of the head.
Add the eye brow by drawing a line under the hair.
Add eyes using melted white chocolate by dipping a toothpick into the chocolate, and then gently putting them underneath the eye brow.
When the white chocolate has dried, add small dots onto the eyes.
Add a nose by making a small “C” with the edible marker.
Add a wound on the side of Frankenstein by drawing a small line at an angle to one of the eyes, and draw 2 lines through it for the look of stitches.
Add your mouth by drawing a wavy line, and then adding stitches along the mouth.
Black Cat Macarons
Black cat macarons can be made with any color of macaron batter.
Black cat macarons are piped into 1.5″ or 2″ circles.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
After the macarons been baked and filled, you can add the black cat decoration onto the macarons.
If your macarons are black, you’ll want to use melted white chocolate, or gold dust to make an outline of the cat.
Otherwise, you can use a black edible marker on any other colored macaron.
Draw the cat onto the macaron by making 2 pointy ears, a rounded back, curly tail, and 2 narrow legs and feet.
Add eyes with gold dust and almond extract using a pointed food safe paint brush.
Blood Splatter Macarons
Blood spattered macarons are made using plain macaron batter. They don’t have any food coloring in them, so they have a white color to them.
The white macaron shells are piped into 1.5″ or 2″ circles.
Before the macarons are set to dry, you can add the blood decoration onto the macarons.
Make a mix of red food coloring (powder or gel) and almond extract.
Using a flat food safe paint brush and dip it into the red paint you just made. Using your finger, push back on the bristles, and then let them go. This will give you the blood spatter onto the macarons.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
Bake and fill the macarons your favorite filling.
