Speckled macarons are gourmet cookies you can make for Easter, Halloween, or bring to birthday party.
You can make them look like a robins egg, or like an Easter egg, depending on the color you’re going to speckle them with.
Speckled macarons can be made with any color or macaron batter.
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You can use your favorite macaron recipe and bake for the exact time in your recipe to make these unique macarons.
If you’re wanting to make robin’s egg macarons, you can color the macaron batter light blue. Add 1/4 tsp of blue powdered food coloring, or a little bit of gel food coloring to the macaron batter.
You can also just have a plain white macaron that doesn’t have any color to it.
The macaron shells can be piped to the normal size of 1.5″ or 2″ circles.
Before the macarons are set to dry, you can add the speckled decoration onto the macarons.
Make a mix of a pinch of powdered food coloring or gel food coloring that you want to speckle your macaron with, and a little almond extract.
Using a flat food safe paint brush and dip it into the paint you just made.
Using your finger, push back on the bristles, and then let them go. This will give you the speckled look to the macarons.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
Bake and fill the macarons your favorite filling.
