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 10 minutes.
Store the macarons in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days after baking them.
Gold brushed macarons will store well in the freezer for up to 1 month, or up to 3 days in the fridge.
You can brush gold paint onto animal shaped macarons, or heart shaped macarons using printable templates.
Unicorn macarons are almost too beautiful to eat! Gold paint s brushed onto the horn and ears of the macarons to create the glittering gold color for the unicorn.
The filling is made by creaming together cream cheese, feta cheese, basil leaves, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Diced tomatoes are folded into the cream cheese savory macaron filling.
The macarons are assembled by placing 1 macaron shell, then adding a basil leaf, the cream cheese filling, and another macaron shell to sandwich the savory macaron together.
The wasabi powder is mixed with a small amount of water to emulsify it.
Next, the cream cheese is beaten until fluffy, and then the wasabi paste mixture is added to it.
Soy sauce, milk, and green onions are added to the cream cheese base to make this savory macaron filling.
To assemble the smoked salmon and wasabi savory macarons, the cream cheese filling is piped onto the macaron shell, and then is topped with a strip of folded smoked salmon. A small amount of cream cheese macaron filling is piped on to of the smoked salmon for the other macaron shell to hold it closed.
These macarons are not able to be frozen, and it is recommended you assemble them right before serving.
Butter is creamed with powdered sugar, and then a hint of maple syrup and vanilla extract are added.
Mix in chopped pieces of bacon to create your savory macaron filling. Pipe inside your macaron shells and sandwich together for a savory bacon macaron.
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Wedding macarons are beautiful and intricate cookies that can be filled with luscious flavors like champagne, white chocolate rose, salted caramel, and red velvet.
Wedding macarons can be flavored with a variety of flavors including adult beverages (champagne macarons), or dessert flavors (white chocolate ganache macarons).
Wedding macarons can be colored white, gold, or made to be a specific color to match your wedding colors.
You can even color them blue for a “something blue” theme.
Champagne Macarons
Champagne macarons are made by adding a hint of champagne into a buttercream base frosting.
Red velvet macarons are made by adding cocoa powder, and vanilla extract to the macaron shell batter. Red velvet is a flavor that has both chocolate and vanilla flavors, making it truly memorable.
The filling of the red velvet macaron is a vanilla cream cheese icing. The cream cheese icing with the chocolate flavored macaron shells makes this flavor of macaron creamy and rich.
Vanilla Bean Macarons
Vanilla bean macaron shells can be flavored with the contents of a vanilla pod into the macaron batter.
The filling is made by adding vanilla bean paste to cream cheese frosting. You can add in vanilla extract if you’re wanting a stronger vanilla flavor.
For a bit of added decoration, you can add dried rose petals to the top of the macaron shells, right after piping them. They will make your macarons looked eye catching with it’s textured look.
The filling is made by adding rose water, and melted white chocolate to a buttercream base frosting.
To decorate the macarons, you can add a little more melted white chocolate and streak it on the top of the macaron shells. You can add a few more dried rose petals or sprinkles that will stick onto the melted white chocolate.
Lemon Macarons
Lemon macarons are made by adding 1/4 tsp of lemon extract to the macaron shell batter.
The filling of the lemon macarons are made by adding lemon zest and lemon juice to a buttercream base frosting.
Lemon macarons are tart, tangy, with a little sweetness from the frosting.
You can make white chocolate ganache macarons by heating heavy cream, and pouring it over white chocolate melting wafers.
Make your chocolate ganache the day before, and let it sit in the fridge overnight, prior to filling your macarons.
Turtle Macarons
Turtle macarons are made by substituting some of the almond flour for pecan flour to macaron batter.
The turtles are filled with freshly made caramel sauce.
Caramel sauce is made by cooking sugar in a saucepan and waiting for it to crystallize into an amber color.
Once you’ve reached your desired color, heavy cream is added to the sauce to make creamy and delicious caramel. Butter is added to thin out the caramel sauce and make it more of a rich caramel flavor.
Top the turtle macarons with melted chocolate and pecans.
Add a little chocolate on one half of a pecan and stick it to the top of the macaron.
Add drizzled melted chocolate over the pecan to make it look eye catching and complete the turtle flavor of pecans, chocolate, and caramel.
Sugar and water are combined in a saucepan white it crystalizes and forms an amber color.
Heavy cream and butter are added to give the caramel sauce a rich and buttery taste while it thickens.
Once the sauce has thickened up, salt is added to give the caramel sauce a salty finish to the sweet caramel. When filling the macarons, a little goes a long way!
Coffee Macarons
Coffee macarons are made by adding a small dusting of coffee grounds to the tops of the macaron shells right after piping them.
Coffee macarons are filled with coffee cream cheese buttercream icing.
You can add in your coffee flavor by adding a small amount of strong coffee, espresso, or using a pack of instant coffee with a bit of hot water.
Add the coffee in slowly to your filling, you don’t want the flavor to be too overpowering, or too thin of an icing to pipe.
Piña Colada Macarons
Piña colada macarons are made by adding a little coconut flour to the macaron batter.
After the macarons have been piped, a sprinkle of shredded coconut is added to the tops of the macaron shells.
The filling of the piña colada macarons is made by adding rum extract, pineapple juice, and coconut cream to a buttercream frosting.
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Macarons can be taken to the next level by adding a few beautiful toppings.
Some toppings can be added right after piping the macaron batter. Some macaron toppings won’t do well in the oven, therefore they need to added after the macarons have baked.
Keep this mind when selecting toppings for your macarons.
Caramel Sauce
To add caramel or chocolate drizzle, place your macarons on a large plate.
Put the caramel into a piping bag with a narrow circular tip.
The caramel sauce will come out very quickly. 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.
Melted Chocolate
Melt a small amount of chocolate (1/4 cup or less). You don’t need much at all to add chocolate as a macaron topping.
Place the melted chocolate into a piping bag with a narrow circular tip. You’re going to need to work quickly if you’re using a piping bag.
Another option is to dip a spoon into the chocolate, and use the edge of the spoon to place the chocolate onto the macaron.
Melted chocolate works well as a macaron topping, because you can use it to add sprinkles or nuts to the tops of your macarons.
Let the melted chocolate dry for 30 minutes prior to storing the macarons away.
Nuts
Finely chopped nuts can be used as a macaron topping, but it needs something to “glue” it to the macaron.
You can use caramel sauce, or chocolate. Chocolate will work the best, because it actually dries and doesn’t cause any mess like caramel sauce does.
pistachios
walnuts
pecans
Sprinkles
Macarons can be decorated with sprinkles right after piping the batter and removing the air bubbles.
Since the batter is sticky while it’s awaiting drying, the sprinkles will adhere to the macaron batter.
Only put a few sprinkles on the macaron, and they should be quite small. Large sprinkles have the risk of melting in the oven and ruining the macaron shells.
Another option is to add melted chocolate after your macarons have been baked and filled. Then gently dust your sprinkles on top of the melted chocolate for it to be “glued” to the top of the macaron.
Coffee Granules
You can decorate macarons with coffee granules by sprinkling a couple of granules on the macaron as soon as they are done piping and have had the air bubbles removed.
The coffee granules will stick well to the macaron batter as it dries prior to baking.
Cookie Crumbs
To add cookie crumbs to the top of your macarons, sprinkle a dusting of cookie crumbs on the macarons as soon as you are done piping them.
You can also put 1 tbsp of cookie crumbs directly into the dry ingredients when making macaron batter. This will give the macaron shells a hint of flavor cookie flavor.
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Orange macarons are bright colored macarons that can be made into refreshing fruit flavors that can enjoyed on the patio in the summertime.
Orange macarons can be made to fit more of a fall and Halloween theme, if you’re going for the fall flavors (chocolate orange, pumpkin spiced flavored macarons).
Try making your own orange macarons using these decadent orange flavored macarons.
Peach Macarons
Peach macarons are made by adding a bit of orange food coloring to the macaron shell batter.
Peach macarons are filled with peach jam.
To create the look of a real peach, paint the outside of the macarons using milk and orange coloring, and another container with milk and red food coloring.
Immediately after painting the outside of the macaron, dip the shells into sugar to coat it. Add 2 mint leaves and stick them into the jam.
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.
The filling of the macarons is a candy corn white chocolate filling.
The ganache is made heating together cream, white chocolate and candy corns. Mix them together thoroughly and let it come to room temperature.
Pipe the filling in the center of the macarons and enjoy!
You can even roll the macarons in a few orange sprinkles, and the filling with adhere to the sprinkles, making them have a little bit of a fringe to them.
The first is a mojito ganache, made by adding rum bakery emulsion flavoring, lime oil, fresh lime juice, chopped up fresh mint leaves to a white chocolate ganache base.
The second filling is a lime center made of sweetened condensed milk, fresh lime juice, and lime zest.
The ganache is piped in a ring around the edge of the macaron shell, while the sweet lime center is piped in the middle of the macaron shell.
Peach Macarons
Peach macarons are made by adding a bit of orange food coloring to the macaron shell batter.
Peach macarons are filled with peach jam.
To create the look of a real peach, paint the outside of the macarons using milk and orange coloring, and another container with milk and red food coloring.
Immediately after painting the outside of the macaron, dip the shells into sugar to coat it. Add 2 mint leaves and stick them into the jam.
Raspberry Macarons
Raspberry macarons are made by adding a bit of food coloring to the macaron batter to make them either pink or red.
Raspberry macaron filling is made by adding raspberry jam to a buttercream base filling.
Raspberry jam is much more concentrated in flavor, therefore it flavors buttercream much better than using crushed raspberries.
Cherry Macarons
Cherry macarons are made by adding red or pink food coloring to the macaron batter.
Finely chopped cherries are added to a buttercream base frosting for the cherry macaron filling.
Mango Macarons
Mango macarons are made by creating the macaron shells, and adding a bit of yellow or orange food coloring to the macaron batter.
The filling of the mango macarons is made by adding mango puree to a buttercream base frosting.
Pineapple Macarons
Pineapple macarons are made by adding a bit of yellow food coloring to the macaron shell batter.
The center filling is made by creating a puree using pineapple chunks.
The pureed pineapple is mixed with rice flour and coconut flour over the stove for a few minutes until it thickens.
Once it’s cooled down, it’ll ready to be piped onto the macaron shells.
The center filling is a cotton candy white chocolate ganache. Cotton candy food flavoring is added to hot cream and white chocolate to create this deliciously sweet and fun flavor of macarons.
For a bit of added decoration, you can add dried rose petals to the top of the macaron shells, right after piping them. They will make your macarons looked eye catching with it’s textured look.
The filling is made by adding rose water, and melted white chocolate to a buttercream base frosting.
To decorate the macarons, you can add a little more melted white chocolate and streak it on the top of the macaron shells. You can add a few more dried rose petals or sprinkles that will stick onto the melted white chocolate.
Peach Macarons
Peach macarons are made by adding a bit of orange food coloring to the macaron shell batter.
Peach macarons are filled with peach jam.
To create the look of a real peach, paint the outside of the macarons using milk and orange coloring, and another container with milk and red food coloring.
Immediately after painting the outside of the macaron, dip the shells into sugar to coat it. Add 2 mint leaves and stick them into the jam.
Lemon Macarons
Lemon macarons are made with a buttercream based macaron filling.
The buttercream is made by adding lemon juice and lemon zest to create the tart buttercream icing.
The center filling is a cotton candy white chocolate ganache. Cotton candy food flavoring is added to hot cream and white chocolate to create this deliciously sweet and fun flavor of macarons.
London Fog Macarons
London fog macarons are made by adding lavender extract to macaron batter. You can also sprinkle a bit of culinary lavender to the tops of the macarons if desired.
Earl grey buttercream icing is the filling for these delicious macarons.
Add vanilla extract, and a full bag of Earl grey tea leaves to the base of a buttercream frosting.
Taste test, you might need to add more tea leaves or vanilla extract to get the taste just right.
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Macarons can be served on a variety of dishes, or even built into a macaron tower if you’re up for the challenge.
Macarons make for a delicious treat in the afternoon or evening served with sweet bubbly beverages.
What temperature to serve macarons at
Macarons are typically stored in the fridge prior to serving, therefore they need to be warmed to room temperature before you’re ready to serve them.
Macarons that have been in the fridge can be placed on a clean plate for 20 minutes to warm them up to room temperature.
Macarons are beautiful cookies that should be served on a clean white plate if possible.
Their colors will pop out from the plate, making them look indulgent.
Arrangements for Macarons
Macaron Tower
Macarons can be arranged according to color on a tiered platter. They look beautiful as each color the macarons come out a bit further creating a macaron tower.
Another option is to build your own macaron tower by first getting a foam tree.
The foam tree needs toothpicks stuck into it, and then you can gently push your macarons onto the toothpick.
You can create a variety of looks from a flat macaron tower, to a mix of flat and vertical macarons.
You can use a wooden cutting board, or specialty wooden board to arrange your macarons on.
It’s best to serve your macarons with similar colors or flavors grouped together on a wooden board.
You can put handwritten labels beside each flavor of macaron for your guests to have a good idea about what kind of macaron they are selecting.
Macarons on a plate
Macarons look eye catching on a white plate because they stand out with their color, shape, and texture.
What drinks to serve with macarons
Macarons can be served with a wide variety of beverages, depending on the occasion.
Tea
Macarons go well with a piping hot cup of tea. You can even serve macarons with high tea (afternoon tea).
Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate is a creamy, chocolatey beverage that goes well with macarons. Macarons that will be served as dessert can be enjoyed with a hot cup of cocoa.
You’ll want to pick complimenting flavors for your macarons to go with your hot chocolate.
Macaron flavors to serve with hot chocolate:
other chocolate flavored macarons
caramel macarons
London fog macarons
vanilla macarons
s’more macarons
cookies and cream macarons
cookie dough macarons
Coffee
An afternoon latte served with macarons is a lovely treat to have on a cold afternoon.
If you love iced coffee, macarons go impeccably well with delicious iced coffee. They’re chewy texture melts in your mouth after a cold glass of a specialty iced coffee.
Champagne
There’s nothing quite like champagne and macarons. Having a little chilled bubbly, next to a flavor packed macaron is one of the best combinations.
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.
Dark chocolate ganache is made by adding hot heavy cream to dark chocolate melting wafers. Once the chocolate is fully mixed into the heavy cream, a little bit of butter is added to the ganache. The butter adds a smooth, velvety flavor to the ganache.
The ganache needs to cool prior to using. If you make it before baking your macaron shells, this will give it some time in the fridge to harden up and be ready to pipe into your macaron shells.
Champagne Macarons
Champagne macarons are made by adding a hint of champagne into a buttercream base frosting.
Red velvet macarons are made by adding cocoa powder, and vanilla extract to the macaron shell batter. Red velvet is a flavor that has both chocolate and vanilla flavors, making it truly memorable.
The filling of the red velvet macaron is a vanilla cream cheese icing. The cream cheese icing with the chocolate flavored macaron shells makes this flavor of macaron creamy and rich.
Raspberry Macarons
Raspberry macarons are made by adding a bit of food coloring to the macaron batter to make them either pink or red.
Raspberry macaron filling is made by adding raspberry jam to a buttercream base filling.
Raspberry jam is much more concentrated in flavor, therefore it flavors buttercream much better than using crushed raspberries.
Cherry Macarons
Cherry macarons are made by adding red or pink food coloring to the macaron batter.
Finely chopped cherries are added to a buttercream base frosting for the cherry macaron filling.
Hot Chocolate Macarons
Hot chocolate macarons are made by adding cocoa powder to macaron batter to create a chocolate macaron shell.
Hot chocolate macarons are filled with a marshmallow chocolate buttercream icing. Hot cocoa is added to a buttercream base to create the chocolate flavor. Marshmallow fluff is added to the buttercream icing for the marshmallow flavor. Marshmallow fluff is a spreadable cream that tastes just like marshmallows.
Hot chocolate macarons are topped with melted chocolate and a few mini marshmallows.
For a bit of added decoration, you can add dried rose petals to the top of the macaron shells, right after piping them. They will make your macarons looked eye catching with it’s textured look.
The filling is made by adding rose water, and melted white chocolate to a buttercream base frosting.
To decorate the macarons, you can add a little more melted white chocolate and streak it on the top of the macaron shells. You can add a few more dried rose petals or sprinkles that will stick onto the melted white chocolate.
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