Gold dusted macarons are striking and glittery macarons. You can add gold dust to macarons to make unicorn macarons or engagement ring macarons for a specialty cookie to serve at a birthday party, wedding, or bridal shower.
Gold dust decorated macarons are more of a upscale macaron. You can fill them with enticing flavors like bubbly champagne buttercream.
If you are wanting to paint the entire macaron gold, use the widest food safe paintbrush you have to save yourself time.
Place a pinch of gold powdered food coloring in a small jar to “make” your paint in.
Add a couple of drops of almond extract to your jar.
Mix the jar of almond extract and gold powdered food coloring together. Now you’ve made your paint for your gold macarons. If your gold paint dries out while you’re working with it, add a few more drops of almond extract.
Using a food safe paint brush, dip your paint brush into your newly made gold paint.
Hold your macaron on a steady surface, and brush your gold paint on top of your macaron where desired. You can even paint the entire macaron in gold paint if you want to. Avoid the icing portion of the macaron, and only paint the shell to make the icing stand out on the macaron. Don’t push too hard on the surface of the macaron shell as it is quite delicate to work with.
Let the macarons dries fully for about 20 minutes.
Gold dusted decorated macarons will store well in the freezer for up to 1 month, or up to 3 days in the fridge.
For unicorn macarons, you only need to paint the horn of the unicorn gold. The ears of the unicorn macaron can be painted in a light pink powdered food coloring.
For birthday macarons, you can color a number on the macarons, or birthday candles using gold dust.
Bridal shower macarons can have a ring painted in gold dust on the outer edge of the macarons.
You can also shape the macarons into a ring when you pipe them.
Pipe 1 circle macaron as normal, and then add a diamond shape on top.
Use a toothpick to make the edges of the diamond into a triangle that sits above the circle.
You can color the diamond blue, or white, and the ring of the macaron will be painted with gold dust.
Salmon fillets are pan fried with salt, pepper, and a bit of lime juice squirted on top.
To make lime hollandaise sauce, butter is melted over a hot water bath. Butter is placed in a metal bowl over a pot filled with about 1″ of water. The water should be boiling in order for the butter to melt.
In a separate heat proof bowl, egg yolks, lime zest, and lime juice are whisked together.
When the butter has melted, slowly add it to the egg yolk mixture whisking vigorously so the eggs do not begin to cook.
Once the pasta has been cooked and drained, you can drizzle lime hollandaise sauce over your salmon and pasta for a citrus, buttery sauce to enjoy.
Pasta Salad with Steak and Basil Hollandaise Sauce
Pasta salad is made with pasta, corn, cannellini beans, cherry tomatoes, butter lettuce and onions.
Steak is sautéed with garlic and butter to sear it, and then it’s let to rest while the hollandaise sauce is made.
Hollandaise sauce is made by melting butter over a hot water bath. You can put a metal bowl over a pot filled with about 1″ of water in the bottom. The water should be boiling in order to melt the butter.
In another bowl, place egg yolks, fresh basil leaves, fresh lemon juice and salt and whisk them together.
You can cut the basil leaves into strips, or chop it up finely. Once the butter has melted, slowly add the butter to the egg yolk bowl whisking vigorously so you don’t cook the eggs.
Basil hollandaise sauce has a bit of a kick to it. You can add fresh chilies as well to make it a bit more spicy.
Hollandaise sauce is drizzled over steak and pasta salad for a creamy and rich flavoring.
Olive oil is heated in a pan, and then slices of chorizo are cooked until they turn brown on each side.
Deglaze the pan with a bit of dry white wine.
Add shrimp, capers, and a bit of caper juice and cook until the shrimp turn pink. Add lemon juice to the pan, and then add cooked pasta to coat in a bit of sauce.
Prepare your hollandaise sauce by melting butter over a hot water bath. You can put a metal bowl over a pot filled with about 1″ of water in the bottom. The water should be boiling in order to melt the butter.
In another bowl, place egg yolks, fresh lemon juice and salt and whisk them together.
Once the butter has melted, slowly add the butter to the egg yolk bowl whisking vigorously so you don’t cook the eggs.
Drizzle hollandaise sauce over shrimp and chorizo pasta and enjoy!
Easter egg macarons are bright and colorful macarons you can add to your dessert table at Easter.
Easter egg macarons use plain macaron batter, and then are decorated using an edible marker or royal icing, powdered food coloring, almond extract, and a food safe paint brush.
Recipe for Easter Egg Macarons
You can use your favorite Italian method macaron recipe to make Easter egg macarons.
You can bake them for the same amount of time in the recipe you use for macarons.
Just make sure the total size of the macarons are about 1.5-2″.
Easter egg macarons can be shaped piped into an oval to look like an egg. You can also just make them into a regular circle if desired.
How to Pipe and Decorate Easter Egg Macarons
Make your macaron batter. You don’t need any food coloring added to the macaron batter if you’re making a white Easter egg macarons.
To pipe your Easter egg macarons, begin by piping a small oval shape approximately 1.5-2″.
Pipe all of your oval shaped macarons the same size.
Remove the air bubbles from the macarons by banging the bottom of the baking pan.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
Bake your Easter egg macarons for the exact same time it says in the recipe you’re using, and let them cool. Fill your macarons.
To decorate Easter egg macarons, you can make royal icing for some fine detail work. Royal icing will dry hard, and you can use piping tips to create small lines on your Easter egg macarons.
Another option is to decorate your Easter egg macarons with an edible marker, and draw lines on the cookies.
To make your Easter egg macarons full of color, you can make your own paint using powdered food coloring and almond extract.
Paint your Easter egg macarons using a food safe paint brush. Criss-crosses, circular lines, triangles, circles, all look beautiful to make your Easter egg cookies.
Valentine’s day is a day to celebrate the people we love in our life.
Valentine’s day macarons are the perfect gift for your mom, sister, brother, or your significant other.
You can decorate macarons using food coloring, edible markers, royal icing, chocolate or caramel.
You can pipe your macarons into teddy bears, or hearts for a specialty cookie for valentine’s day.
See full video below.
Royal Icing
To decorate Easter egg macarons, you can make royal icing for some fine detail work. Royal icing will dry hard, and you can use piping tips to create small lines on your Easter egg macarons.
Royal icing can be hard to work with. If your icing is too runny, add a little bit more icing sugar to stiffen it up. Then you can write words with it, or make wavy lines for a beautiful look to your valentine’s day macarons.
Caramel or Chocolate Drizzle
To add caramel or chocolate drizzle, place your macarons on a large plate.
Put caramel or melted chocolate into a piping bag, fitted with #2 piping tip.
The flow will come fast, you won’t even need to squish the bag for the flow to come out.
Make one line on 1 half of the macaron. Continue making 2 more lines that criss cross a little to have an elastic band look to it.
You can add nuts or sprinkles to the drizzle to add a pop of color.
Using a food safe paint brush gently paint on your macaron. 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 on the cookie.
For valentine’s day macarons, you can paint hearts, or write words on your macaron shells.
You can write words or draw pictures on your macarons for valentine’s day.
Edible marker’s come in all sorts of colors, it’s almost like using a felt pen to draw on cookies.
You don’t want to push too hard into the cookie, since they are quite delicate.
Piping Shapes
Macaron batter can be piped into shapes instead of just a circle for a beautiful gift for that special someone!
You can use a template to create heart macarons, or you can just free hand them.
Heart macarons can be colored pink, or you can have them as plain white batter as well.
If you’re wanting to color your macaron batter, use a little bit of pink gel food coloring to color your heart macarons.
Fill your piping bag with your macaron batter fitted with a 1/2” tip.
Begin by piping one of the round tops of the heart, drag the tip downwards in a diagonal. Continue piping upwards to end at the other round top of the heart.
Take a toothpick and gently guide the point of the bottom of the heart downwards to create a sharp point of your macarons.
Let them dry for 30 minutes, and then bake in the oven for the same time your recipe says.
Valentine’s day heart macarons should be 1.5″-2″ once you’ve piped them.
Teddy bear macarons are adorable to make for valentine’s day. You can color your macaron batter brown, or leave it as plain white.
Fill your piping bag with macaron batter fitted with a 1/2” tip.
Begin by piping a round circle for the head.
Add ears to the teddy bear macaron by piping the ear and dragging the macaron batter downward into the round circle.
Add arms and legs to the teddy bear macaron by piping the batter in a “star” shape. Start piping the one arm, then drag the tip in an arc to one of the feet, then to the other foot, then to the other arm.
Fill in the body of the teddy bear.
After you have piped all of your teddy bears, remove the air bubbles from the macarons by banging the bottom of the baking pan.
Add a small circle for the mouth of the bear on top of the round circle in the bottom half of the face.
Bake the macarons, cool, and fill them.
Add the teddy bear macarons eyes, nose, and mouth using an edible marker.
Easter macarons are vibrant and beautifully colored. You can make shapes with your Easter macarons including bunnies, Easter eggs, and carrots.
You can also decorate your macarons to look like a bird’s nest, or robin’s egg using some food coloring, icing, and a couple of chocolate eggs.
Use your favorite macaron recipe and bake for the exact time in your recipe to make these enticing Easter macarons.
See full video on how to pipe and decorate Easter macarons below.
Bunny Macarons
Bunny macarons are made with plain macaron batter. You don’t need any food coloring added to the macaron batter if you’re making a white colored bunny.
To pipe your bunny macarons, begin by piping a small circle ~ 1″ in diameter.
Pipe one ear off to the side of the circle on the top. You’ll want to drag the macaron batter upward, and then let the batter drip back on to itself to create one ear. Repeat on the other ear.
Use a toothpick to guide both of the ears of the bunny into a point.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
Bake your bunny macarons for the exact same time it says in the recipe you’re using, and let them cool. Fill your macarons.
Add eyes and eyelashes with an edible marker. Draw 2 wavy lines to create the eyes, then add small lines outwards to create the eye lashes.
Add 2 “U” shaped lines to create the mouth.
Add 2 whiskers on each side of the bunny face.
Use pink powdered food coloring and a little almond extract together to make a paint. Paint the pink color on the inside of the ears of the bunny, and a triangle or round nose using a food safe paint brush.
Carrot Macarons
Carrot macarons are made by coloring your macaron batter with 1/4 tsp of orange powdered food coloring, or a little bit of orange gel food coloring on a toothpick.
To pipe your carrot macarons, begin by piping in a line, and then drag the batter back on to itself.
Guide the end of the carrot into a point by using a toothpick. Push the batter into a point to give it a sharp end.
Next you’ll want to have a very small end on your piping bag.
You might need to move the batter into a new piping bag with a small tip on the end. Your initial carrot macrons you’ve piped should sit for about 15 minutes, then you can start the detail work on them.
Go back to your carrot macarons and pipe a curved line starting at the thick end of the carrot. Pipe curved lines all the way down the carrot.
Let your macarons dry for 15 minutes.
Bake your macarons, and fill them.
Use green powdered food coloring and a little almond extract together to make a paint. Paint the green color on the top of the carrot using a food safe paint brush. You can make a triangle shape a couple of times to create the green part of the carrot.
Easter Egg Macarons
Easter egg macarons can be shaped piped into an oval to look like an egg. You can also just make them into a regular circle if desired.
To decorate Easter egg macarons, you can make royal icing for some fine detail work. Royal icing will dry hard, and you can use piping tips to create small lines on your Easter egg macarons.
Another option is to decorate your Easter egg macarons with an edible marker, and draw lines on the cookies.
To make your Easter egg macarons full of color, you can make your own paint using powdered food coloring and almond extract.
Criss-crosses, circular lines, triangles, circles, all look beautiful to make your Easter egg cookies.
Nest Macarons
Nest macarons are made by making royal icing, and coloring the icing brown.
Using a large star tip, pipe the icing in a round circle to make the nest on top of the macaron.
Place 3 colored chocolate eggs into the nest, and they will dry into the nest so they will stay put.
Let the nest dry for at least an hour before storing your nest macarons.
Robin Egg Macarons
Robin egg macarons are made using a sky blue color to make your macaron shells the perfect robin egg color. You don’t want it to be too colored, just a hint of blue is ideal.
After the shells have come out of the oven and cooled, mix together brown food coloring and vanilla extract.
Create the “speckled” robin egg by using dipping a food safe paint brush into the vanilla extract/food coloring mixture and flicking it onto the cooled macaron shells.
Carrot macarons are adorable cookies you can make using orange macaron batter.
Carrot macarons go well alongside bunny macarons, and can be made for a child’s birthday party, or brought to Easter as a specialty dessert cookie.
Carrot macarons are decorated using green powdered food coloring, almond extract, and a food safe paint brush.
You’ll need to pipe the carrot macarons using 2 piping bags.
One piping bag should have a larger end on it (half inch piping tip), and the other should have a narrow tip on it (quarter inch piping tip).
The top of the carrot is the detail work, which is piped after the base of the carrot macaron has dried for about 15 minutes.
Recipe for Carrot Macarons
You can use your favorite macaron recipe and bake for the exact time in your recipe to make these carrot shaped macarons.
You can color your macaron batter by adding 1/4 tsp of orange powdered food coloring, or a little bit of orange gel food coloring on a toothpick.
How to Make Carrot Macarons
Make your macaron batter. You’ll need to add orange food coloring to the macaron batter to make the carrot color. You can add 1/4 tsp of orange powdered food coloring, or a little bit of orange gel food coloring on a toothpick and add it to your egg whites when making your almond paste.
To pipe your carrot macarons, begin by piping in a line, and then drag the batter back on to itself.
Check to see how the carrot macaron looks. If it has a nice point to it, you can make your next carrot. If you need to make the batter into a point for the end of the carrot, guide it by using a toothpick. Push the batter into a point to give it a sharp end.
Pipe all of your carrot macarons in the same way.
Remove the air bubbles from the macarons by banging the bottom of the baking pan.
Next you’ll want to have a very small end on your piping bag. You might need to move the batter into a new piping bag with a small tip on the end. Your initial carrot macrons you’ve piped should sit for about 15 minutes, then you can start the detail work on them.
Go back to your carrot macarons and pipe a curved line starting at the thick end of the carrot. Pipe curved lines all the way down the carrot.
Pipe all of the lines on the carrot macarons.
Let your macarons dry for 15 minutes.
Bake your carrot macarons for the exact same time it says in the recipe you’re using, and let them cool. Fill your macarons.
Use green powdered food coloring and a little almond extract together to make a paint. Paint the green color on the top of the carrot using a food safe paint brush. You can make a triangle shape a couple of times to create the green part of the carrot (see video below).
Let dry for 20 minutes.
Store your carrot macarons in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days, or in the freezer for up to 1 month.
Bunny macarons are adorable cookies you can make with plain macaron batter.
You can make colored bunny macarons by adding brown, grey, or black food coloring to the macaron batter if desired.
Bunny macarons can be made for a child’s birthday party, or brought to Easter as a specialty dessert cookie.
Bunny macarons are decorated using an edible marker, pink powdered food coloring, almond extract, and a food safe paint brush.
Recipe for bunny macarons
You can use your favorite Italian method macaron recipe to make bunny macarons.
You can bake them for the same amount of time in the recipe you use for macarons. Just make sure the total size of the macarons are about 1.5-2″.
How to Make Bunny Macarons
Make your macaron batter. You don’t need any food coloring added to the macaron batter if you’re making a white colored bunny.
To pipe your bunny macarons, begin by piping a small circle ~ 1″ in diameter.
Pipe one ear off to the side of the circle on the top. You’ll want to drag the macaron batter upward, and then let the batter drip back on to itself to create one ear. Repeat on the other ear.
Use a toothpick to guide both of the ears of the bunny into a point.
Pipe all of your bunny macarons in the same way.
Remove the air bubbles from the macarons by banging the bottom of the baking pan.
Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
Bake your bunny macarons for the exact same time it says in the recipe you’re using, and let them cool. Fill your macarons.
Add eyes and eyelashes with an edible marker. Draw 2 wavy lines to create the eyes, then add small lines outwards to create the eye lashes.
Add 2 “U” shaped lines to create the mouth.
Add 2 whiskers on each side of the bunny face.
Use pink powdered food coloring and a little almond extract together to make a paint. Paint the pink color on the inside of the ears of the bunny, and a triangle or round nose using a food safe paint brush.
Let dry for 20 minutes.
Store your bunny macarons in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days, or in the freezer for up to 1 month.
Avocado cream sauce is a sauce made out of avocados that is blended with yogurt and herbs to make a tangy, citrusy sauce for tacos.
Avocado cream sauce is made with thick plain yogurt which gives the crema a thick base.
The yogurt mixed with avocado makes the sauce creamy and full bodied. It has a strong lime flavor to the avocado crema that finishes the sauce off well.
Avocado cream sauce is made by combining plain yogurt, avocado, cilantro leaves, minced garlic, fresh lime juice, olive oil, and a little salt in a food processor. To keep the sauce full and thick, the mixture is only “pulsed” in the food processor until it combines.
You can use avocado cream sauce and spoon it onto the tacos, or you can use it to coat a mixture of coleslaw, and place that inside your taco.
Chipotle lime cream is made by combining sour cream, chipotles in adobo sauce, fresh lime juice, lime zest, honey and salt and blending them together. You can thin out the sauce with a bit of water if desired.
Chipotle lime crema goes well with fish tacos, cauliflower tacos, or chicken tacos.
Jalapeno sauce is made by adding mayo, sour cream, diced jalapenos, cilantro leaves, tomatillo salsa, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper to a blender, and blending until smooth.
Jalapeno sauce works well for pork tacos or steak tacos.
Sour cream, mayo, and lime juice are mixed together to make the sauce a medium thickness.
Cumin, coriander, dill, oregano, chipotle chili powder, capers, diced jalapeno, and cilantro leaves are added to the base of the sauce and mixed together.
Fish taco sauce has a creamy tangy flavor, with a hint of spicy chipotle.
Salsa verde is made with roasted tomatillos. Tomatillos are green tomatoes that come in a paper husk which needs to be removed prior to roasting them.
Roasting tomatillos neutralizes the acidity of the tomatoes, making it a savory base as a salsa.
After the tomatillos are cooked, they are placed in a food processor with finely chopped onions, serrano pepper, fresh lime juice, cilantro and cumin.
Once the salsa has been “pulsed” until the tomatoes are broken up, it’s ready to serve.
Salsa verge is a tangy, spicy salsa for tacos.
Tomato Salsa
Tomato salsa is a juicy, chunky salsa that has a little bite to it.
Salsa adds a ton of flavor and compliments tacos well as a topping.
Salsa can be paired with guacamole well for serving on top of steak tacos.
Tomato salsa is made by adding whole canned tomatoes, and a can of diced tomatoes with green chilies (Rotel tomatoes work well) as the base of the salsa.
Finely chopped jalapeno with the seeds removed are added to the salsa, as well as some diced onions.
A few herbs like garlic and cumin are added, and then the salsa can be “pulsed” only in a food processor. Don’t overmix the salsa until it becomes a mush.
Pulse the salsa 7-10 times to get it just perfectly chunky.
Guacamole
Guacamole is a chunky sauce made with mashed avocados.
Guacamole is made by adding diced tomatoes, tomatoes, chopped cilantro, and a pinch of garlic salt to mashed avocado.
Olive oil is heated in a saucepan with finely chopped shallots and minced garlic for a couple of minutes to let the aromas come out of the shallots and garlic.
White wine is added to the sauce and cooked until it reduced about 1/3 in volume.
Butter and heavy cream are added to the sauce to make it rich and creamy.
Once the sauce has thickened, it’s removed from the heat.
Fresh lemon juice and dill are added to the sauce for a citrusy herb flavor for the salmon dipping sauce.
Freshly squeezed lemon juice, dill weed, salt, and pepper are added to the base of the sauce and mixed together.
Creamy dill sauce is a citrusy and dill flavored sauce for salmon.
Tzatziki Sauce
Tzatziki sauce is a thick, tangy sauce with a hint of dill and cucumber.
Tzatziki sauce has a base using Greek yogurt.
Greek yogurt is strained through a cheesecloth for about 2 hours to remove the liquid from the yogurt, leaving a thick base for the Salmon dipping sauce.
Olive oil, dill, grated cucumber, vinegar, salt, and minced garlic is added to the yogurt to create a creamy, dill and cucumber flavored dipping sauce.
Butter is warmed in a saucepan, along with fresh lemon juice and garlic powder.
Lemon butter sauce only take a couple of minutes to come together, and has a refreshing lemon flavor with a hint of savory garlic for dipping salmon in.
Freshly squeezed orange juice, orange zest, white wine, and shallots are heated in a saucepan over medium heat until it turns into a syrup consistency.
Cold butter is added to the sauce and whisked into it to emulsify the sauce. It’s added only 1 tbsp at a time, and whisked constantly, preventing the sauce from coming to a boil.
Add salt and pepper at the end of the cooking the citrusy beurre blanc salmon dipping sauce.
Celery is a crunchy, textured vegetable you can dip in a lot of foods than just ranch!
You can use celery for dipping into baked brie, hummus, cheese balls, almond butter, blue cheese dip, and lime yogurt sauce.
Roasted Garlic Hummus
Roasted garlic hummus is a homemade chickpea appetizer with hints of garlic, and spicy flavors.
Roasted garlic hummus is made by roasting garlic in the oven.
You can make the roasted garlic by cutting off the top part of garlic to expose the cloves, and then drizzle olive oil on the cloves. Cover the garlic with tin foil, and place in a heat proof dish. This way, the oil drippings will end up in the dish, instead of in your oven.
When the roasted garlic is finished cooking, and has cooled down, squish out the roasted garlic cloves.
To make the roasted garlic hummus, chickpeas, tahini, roasted garlic cloves, lemon juice, olive oil and water are added to a food processor. The mixture is blended until smooth, and then places on a serving dish.
Jalapeno Corn Dip
Jalapeno corn dip is made by combining cream cheese, sour cream, finely chopped jalapeno, jack cheese, and corn in the slow cooker and cooking on low for 2 hours.
Jalapeno corn dip is a cream cheese based dip that’s cooked in the slow cooker, and served with tortilla chips or corn chips for dipping.
Remove from the slow cooker and mixed with bacon bits. Top the corn appetizer with more bacon bits, fresh cilantro leaves, queso fresco, and a squeeze of fresh lime juice.
Mayo and sour cream are mixed together to create the base of the sauce.
Chives, parsley, dill, garlic powder, onion powder, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper are added to the dipping sauce and mixed together.
Ranch sauce needs to be refrigerated for at least 30 minutes prior to serving to let the herbs infuse into the dip.
Serve with celery sticks.
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