My new favorite thing...macaroons!

Mac.a.roon: (noun) a drop cookie made of egg whites, sugar, usually almond paste or coconut, and sometimes a little flour.

My friend Courtney and I had both been swooning over Macaroons so we planned a date night where we would get together and attempt to make them ourselves. We had both heard how hard they were to make, but honestly ours turned out just right...maybe it was beginners luck or maybe we are just that good, most likely it's the second one!

We started out with the most basic macaroons you could make...Vanilla macaroons. Let me just tell you that even the vanilla macaroon made me drool. Like the definition says a macaroon is a drop cookie. Ours did have egg whites and sugar and we used ground almond too, but no coconut. To make a macaroon you have to start by combining ground almond and powdered sugar, which you end up folding into a delicious meringue mixture of egg whites and vanilla.

Then you use a piping bag to drop the macaroons onto parchment paper and put them in the oven for less than 15 minutes. While they are baking you can make the filling. The filling for these macaroons was very simple (butter, powdered sugar and vanilla), but you can get fancy with your fillings! When the macaroons finish baking you add the filling then you sandwich them together making the cutest darn dessert ever. 

If you are looking for a book to give you great tips on making macaroons I'd recommend this book! It's less than $2.00 and has tons of great macaroon recipes!! Our next macaroon making session will be to make Blueberry cheesecake filled Macaroons. Yum!