Macarons

Macaroons, they are becoming increasingly popular among home bakers. This delicious cookie from the French patisserie is a true delight. Making the perfect macaroon is a lot of work, but with the FunCakes mix for Macaroons you can bake delicious macarons in no time. With a drop of food colouring you can give them any colour you like. The macaroon filling can be flavoured with flavourings and taste pastes.

Baking macarons
You can use the macarons baking mix from FunCakes, or you can make your own. The FunCakes macaroon mix is gluten-free certified, so you can make gluten-free macarons. In this recipe we explain the basic recipe for macarons from scratch. With FunCakes Almond flour Extra Fine you have the essential ingredient for macarons. Besides that you also need egg whites, you can use fresh egg whites or FunCakes egg white powder for a good result.

Macaron mat
To make macarons with exactly the same size you can use a macaron mat. On a macaron mat you can see circles in which you have to pipe the macarons. Some macaron mats have a small rim around the circle to prevent the macaron batter from running out.

Macaron fillings
There are many different macaron fillings you can make. The most popular fillings for macarons are ganache and butter cream. Ganache and butter cream can be given any flavour you like. For example, flavour the butter cream with a delicious flavour paste. So you can make delicious raspberry macaroons, lemon macaroons, strawberry macaroons or pistachio macaroons. You can also think of a savoury filling for macarons. Bake the macaroons and fill them with salmon or cheese for example.

Decorating macaroons
You can keep your macarons simple or decorate them for extra fun! You can roll the macaroons through sprinkles, so the sprinkles will stick to the filling. This way you will have a nice edge of sprinkles around your macaroons. You can also stick sugar decorations on top of the macarons with some edible glue. A popular trend is decorated macarons, use for example edible marker or edible paint to draw animals, faces or fruit on macarons.