Macarons can be used just like a blank canvas to make flower macarons. You can paint macarons to color tulips, round petal flowers, or pointed tipped flowers.
You can use a food safe paint brush to make beautiful brush stokes on macarons to paint flower petals, vines and leaves. See video here.
How to Make Flower Macarons
Paint for Flower Macarons
You can paint on macarons to create flower macarons by using either powdered food coloring or gel food coloring with a couple of drops of almond extract.
You don’t want to use too much almond extract. If you pour too much, the color will be more like watercolor paint.
If you just use a little almond extract, the color will be strong and easily painted on the macaron. The color will not run.
Paint Brushes
You’ll need to use a food safe paint brush to make painted flowers on macarons.
A flat brush is critical to painting flower petals. See video below to watch how to make a pointed tipped flower, a round tipped flower, or a tulip shape.
To make leaves or vines on macarons, use a long fine tipped paint brush. This will let you create fine leaf shapes, or narrow vines underneath flowers painted on macarons.
When painting on macarons, make sure you have let the shells fully cool, then fill the macarons.
After you’ve filled all of your macarons, you’re ready to paint on your designs.
Edible Marker
Edible markers can be used to draw flower petals onto macarons.
You can get many different colors in edible markers to use to create beautiful flowers on macarons.
You can also use black edible markers and lightly touch the marker in the center of flower petals to make the center of the flower. It adds a bit of textured look to the flower on the macaron.
Flower Petal Shapes
Pointed Flower Petals
- Dip a flat paint brush into food coloring.
- Touch the flat brush to the macaron.
- Drag the top tip of the flat brush 45 degrees to the right to create a point for the flower petal.
- Repeat to make 5-6 flower petals.
- Make dots in the center of the flower using a black edible marker.
Round Flower Petals
- Dip a flat paint brush into food coloring.
- Touch the flat brush to the macaron.
- Push the brush in an upwards and to the right slightly, then bring it back down to the original starting point.
- Repeat to make 5-6 flower petals.
- Make dots in the center of the flower using a black edible marker.
Tulip
- Dip a flat paint brush into food coloring.
- Touch the flat brush to the macaron.
- Push the brush in an upwards and to the right slightly, then bring it back down.
- Put the brush in the original position, and then push the brush downwards and to the right. Bring the brush back up and line it up with the first brush strokes to create a tulip shape.
