r/macarons

Hello! I’ve started getting into macaron baking for the past few months now. This is the recipe I use:

100g egg whites

1/4 teaspoon (1g) cream of tartar

1/2 teaspoon extract

80g superfine sugar

3-4 drops gel food coloring

125g almond flour

125g confectioners’ sugar 

This past week, I tried making raspberry macarons for the first time. I used the same recipe, but I added 33g of crushed freeze-dried raspberries, which I added to the almond flour + Confectioner’s sugar mix.
Taste wise, they came out great! Unfortunately, i forgot to fine tune the rest of my ingredients (primarily the egg whites) and they came out pretty dry(and maybe a little gross looking) and didn’t form correctly while baking.
This recipe always works for me, so I know what threw everything off was adding the raspberries.

Anyone able to tell me what I need to add more of and how much to fix this recipe?

Full shells using pies and tacos recipe and adding 3g of egg white powder per 100g of egg whites.

Hi everyone,

these are supposedly hand-painted macarons.

Do you have any idea what sort of paints and brushes might have been used to make them?

Thanks!

This is my fourth batch and man, I am so proud of these. Made them for my friends dual baby shower. (My favorite piping tip got stuck in the garbage disposal, so first time using this tip 👎🏼

Macarons are the most technically difficult things I’ve ever baked. And somehow I enjoy the torture. I dream about macaronage lol

Matcha Macarons with Matcha White Chocolate ganache and Chocolate Macarons with Dark Chocolate ganache.
I’ll be honest, are they perfect? Nope. But are they still tasty? 100% 😆

I think I’m starting to understand what to look for in a macaron batter. I think I undermixed the batter on these, because even after resting I can still see the spiral of how I piped these onto the baking sheet.

For the chocolate ones, the cracking still happened after I let them rest and form a good skin that was dry to the touch. For the green ones, I think they inadvertently were mixed better because I made a large batch of meringue, and split it in half. It waited in the bowl while I finished the chocolate macarons first before mixing the batter for the matcha ones. So I think the matcha meringue was “weaker” by the time I got back to it.

Edit: Added the flavors of the macarons and their fillings.

I've tried making them today for the first time and I'm looking for improvements for the future. Why did they stick to the parchment paper? The batter was a bit runny too.

Thanks to everyone for the advice over the past few months - I made macarons for the first time this year and made over 600 for a wedding this weekend!!

First time making macarons! I honestly expected them to come out so much worse. It took me so long but I feel so accomplished :)

I just took the bad boys in the first pic out of the oven and I’m at a loss on what went wrong. I used the Swiss method from Pies & Tacos which was also used in the second and third pics. My best guess is over-whipped meringue, but I would love some additional input.

I set my oven to 310°F which leaves my actual oven temp a tiny over 300°F. I used the middle oven rack in the first and third picture, and lowest rack in the second (ignore my filling issue lol).

What gel color would you try for this?

Think I'm starting to get the hang of it!

Hello, someone please help. Recently i have been failing every single Macaron attempt and i am hundred percent sure it's an oven issue, so could someone please explain to me how to test my oven.
I have made macarons a lot before and i have never failed without cream of tarter or egg whites powder. i'm planning to buy cream of tarter now
ALSO how come i'm doing well without a weighing scale and now that i use one i keep on failing i'm so mad.

While the shape turned out really great I think, they are hollow and brittle. It was 86 degrees in my home and it seemed like they didn't need any resting time at all but I let them sit for 30 mins. Baked for ~25mins at 300 degrees. I checked at 17 mins and every three minutes after but the bottoms were always sticky. Thanks for any suggestions!

Someone wanted me to take photos lol. I only took a picture of the purple ones. The lemon buttercream came out nicely though!

Pictures of the macarons i just made both with and without flash (sry the lighting is bad its hard to take pictures of the white shells lol) there vanilla that im gonna use edible paint on to make them the lesbian flag but this has happened even with macarons ive dyed

The shells look fine and spotless after they come out of the oven but after letting them cool for a bit they get these weird darker spots on the tops im not to upset by it but im still curious why its happening as i havent seen this with anyone else before

is it normal?

Sziasztok! Segítséget szeretnék kérni, mert nem értem, mi történhetett a macaronjaimmal. 😅

Ma 3 körben sütöttem, és ugyanúgy csináltam mindent mindhárom alkalommal. Az első kör tökéletes lett, a másodiknál főleg a tepsi szélén lévők repedtek ki, a harmadiknál pedig szinte az egész tepsi. A képen hátul van az első adag, középen a második, bal alul pedig a harmadik. A második körben egyébként csak a sütő szélén lévők repedtek meg. A harmadik körben pedig már az egész tepsi, ahogy azt a fotón is látni.

150 °C-on, alsó-felső sütéssel sütöttem őket. Ugyanaz a recept, ugyanaz a massza, ugyanaz a tepsi, és tényleg nem változtattam semmin.

Ami még furább, hogy tegnap este is pontosan
ugyanígy sütöttem 3 kört, és akkor mindhárom tökéletes lett.

A konyhában ment a klíma, de már az első körnél is ment, ami tökéletes lett.
Szerintetek mitől lehetett, hogy most körönként egyre rosszabb lett? Lehet, hogy a sütő melegedett túl? Vagy esetleg a klíma/páratartalom is számíthat? Nagyon kíváncsi vagyok, hátha valaki találkozott már ilyennel. 🥹

I never bake and my mum was very against me trying macarons because theyre “the hardest thing to bake” but i think they turned out well
Feedback is appreciated!

My latest experiments were blue raspberry lemonade (using Kool aid powder), mango curd, and peanut butter 🤤

I thought I had done everything correctly my merengue looked fab 😞