You will need:
- Saracino pink powder colour
- Saracino Supreme food flavourings: strawberry and vanilla
- Saracino gel colours: yellow, pink, brown
- Saracino Royal icing
- Guide sheet or template
- Piping bags and round nozzles number 4 and 6
- Sprinkles
- Brush for blending
- Black edible food pencil
- Lollipop sticks
- Macaron mixture
TIP: Saracino Almond flour is ideal for perfect macarons.
Step 1
Colour your macaron dough using yellow, brown and pink gel colour. Add to piping bags. Make sure your piping nozzles are in the bags before adding the mixture (I forgot for this picture!)
Step 2
Place the guide sheet under the mat or parchment paper.
Step 3
Using a number 6 nozzle pipe mixture to the lines of the template.
Step 4
Pipe the remaining colours and bake the macarons.
Step 5
Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Step 6
Prepare piping bags, round nozzle number 4 and Saracino Royal icing.
Step 7
Sift the royal icing into three bowls then add cold water a little at a time until you get a soft piping consistency (when you stir the icing with a spatula the mixture should fold on itself within ten seconds).
Step 8
Colour the icing by adding Saracino gel dyes and pour each colour into piping bags with a number 4 nozzle. Prepare three bowls of different sprinkles.
Step 9
Decorate the front shell of the macarons with icing.
Step 10
Before the icing dries, decorate with sprinkles.
Step 11
Allow to dry.
Step 12
Prepare your edible black marker pen, brush and pink dust powder.
Step 13
Draw eyes and mouths to give different expressions.
Step 14
Dust the cheeks lightly to give a blush look.
Step 15
Make a white chocolate ganache and flavour half with Strawberry Supreme and the other half with Vanilla Supreme.
Step 16
Put your flavoured ganaches into piping bags with a number 6 nozzle. Fix lollipop sticks to the back of the undecorated macarons with a little ganache. Pipe over with a thin layer of ganache for the centre.
Step 17
Place the decorated ‘faces’ onto the layer of ganache to finish each macaron.
Step 18
Ready for a sweet summer but delicious any time of the year!
