French macaron mass production

Our kitchen has been busy creating rows and rows of delicate little French macarons for an upcoming fundraiser event, the Earth Fire and Light Gala at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. These crisp cookies gave us some trouble in the beginning, the cookies you see here were our fourth attempt to nail down the recipe.

We had a lot of fun mixing and matching flavours and colours with these cookies. They are great to coordinate with a party theme or colours, or even your favourite flavours. We chose peach and raspberry filling (pink cookies), saffron with chocolate ganache (yellow cookie), cassis with cassis jam (violet cookies), and almond with amaretto filling (green cookies). We used a meringue-based buttercream icing for the filling on our cookies, with offers a rich creamy centre for the melt-in-your-mouth cookies.