Anybody out there remember my macaron disaster? I’ve not yet revisited trying to make these artful mysteries. So instead of facing the challenge, I stuck with the familiar and made little, colorful sandwich cookies in the style of a macaron. And I made some into pops, too, because I’ll put anything I can on a stick.
Whilst the crisp but chewy, light as air quality of macarons is lost, unlike real macarons, these are very easy to make.
*For food coloring, I use Americolor soft gel pastes (Electric Pink, Electric Green, Turquoise and Orange). Find the cutter, decorating bags, couplers, tips, sprinkles and lollipop sticks at the craft store. For tips on finding supplies, click HERE.
step one: bake your cookies
Prepare sugar cookie dough, chill, divide, and tint desired colors by kneading drops of food coloring into the dough. If the dough gets mushy from kneading, chill again about an hour before rolling out. Roll out the dough on a floured surface, cut out small circles (two per cookie) and bake according to the recipe. Let cool completely. TIPS: I worked with small amounts of dough at a time, a piece about the size of a large egg. Kneading the color into the dough will stain your hands in a terribly unattractive way, so you may wear gloves. I didn’t. I now have terribly unattractive stained hands.
step two: prepare your icing
Prepare icing according to the recipe. Divide and tint the same colors as the cookies. Prepare a decorating bag with coupler and size 5 tip. Fill with the colors and close tightly with rubber bands.
step three: assemble the cookies
Pipe and fill a circle of icing on the back of a cookie and top with another cookie. To make pops, place a lollipop stick on the icing before topping with the other cookie. Let cookies sit on a piece of parchment or wax paper overnight to dry.Tweet
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15 Comments
Being a bit of a cake pop junkie, I really feel like I need to dip those in chocolate =)
oooh, even half in chocolate! Very good idea.
Cool beans…..any way I can fake a macaron on a stick is worth gold to this kid. Yes, gold. You are wonderful!! Have a super week.
Cripes that comment from James is from this dork!
Code names are always good to have! Keeps your nemeses on their toes.
Aw, you should give macarons another try. I actually put some red macarons on sticks and mixed them with mint white chocolate ganache balls on sticks to make a Valentine's day bouquet that was much better than silly flowers.
Look so cute! I still haven't dared try macaroons yet!
I've never even eaten a macaron let along try to bake one. I hear there is an art to it so I'm not ready to attempt them quite yet, but my curiosity is certainly aroused.
This un-macaron idea is very cute and delicious looking!
I love these! Perhaps making them would make me feel better about my multiple macaron making failures! I'm SURE they would:)
Un-macarons would be great for an un-birthday party
Very cute idea.
What a wonderful idea! they look great, i love all the colours.
So pretty! I haven't dared try macarons yet, but they are on my baking bucket list!
Oh! what a good idea! I like it!
I love your "faux macarons!" I am too scared to try the real things!
I have a question about these cookies. we are having a Wizard of Oz party for my son in law in a few months and these would be perfect. But I need to know if the icing is merangue or buttercream. Guess it makes a difference if you want it to stay on the stick, lol. Thanks for the help. Figure the lollipop kids theme would work with these.