Macano Mnom

The second macaron of my Bridgerton-inspired set 💜

Filling is a ring of vanilla bean buttercream and center of peach jam 🍑

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🎥 shot with

I used Wedding Gold luster dust and Diamondust Light Purple ✨ Use my code MACANOMNOM when purchasing to get a discount! 🤩

♡𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦♡

Strawberry heart macs are perfect for Valentine’s Day! 🥰🍓

Filling is strawberry cheesecake ganache; recipe below!

♡ 350 gr white chocolate
♡ 100 gr cream cheese, cut up + room temp
♡ 150 gr strawberry purée
♡ 15 gr vanilla bean paste
♡ 20 gr inverted sugar (optional)

1. Put chocolate + cream cheese together in a bowl
2. Heat up purée + paste in saucepan on stove until bubbling
3. Pour heated mixture over chocolate + cream cheese
4. Stir/mix together with a rubber spatula
5. Use immersion blender to emulsify + make smooth
6. Transfer to a container, lay plastic wrap on top of ganache to prevent drying out, place lid on container, and let it set

Keep it in your fridge up to 5 days or in your freezer up to a month.

Some tips:
- macs that have multiple piping components require longer resting so they don’t crack when baking; either rest for an hour in air-conditioned area or pop in oven at 250° for 3 mins with oven door propped open
- to get the color red, use a powder coloring instead of gel; I swear by ’s Master Elite collection (use my code MACANOMNOM when purchasing for a discount!)
- don’t bang your tray when doing shaped/character macs; use a scribe to remove air bubbles
- use silicone mats instead of parchment as the batter won’t spread as much and will stay put wherever you piped it
- use royal icing instead of batter to decorate/do details for a cleaner look
- use a Swiss mac recipe; Swiss meringue is the most stable for characters as the batter takes longer to break down which is great for longer piping time (I’m just lazy and do French so I don’t have to wash extra stuff lol, but French requires you to be faster with piping)
- despite what many people say for characters, you do NOT have to undermix! who wants lumpy macarons?!
- for multiple colors from one batter, undermix all of it first and then separate as needed in different bowls; add the colorings and then finish mixing each separately

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💜 Gel food coloring from and
💜 Brush is idfk but it’s just a “fine detail brush”; I’m a brush hoarder and buy from everywhere
💜 Template is from my heart & soul and made using

The best part of making bread. I literally just wanted to post this one second as a reel to keep replaying for satisfaction lol. Turn the sound on too 😮‍💨🤌🏼

Color is achieved by using red beet supercolor powder

💕 Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head 💕

4/9 characters from my Toy Story macaron series 💜

I piped some icing transfers for their faces because I felt like that would resemble the real potato head toys ☺️

Making all these Toy Story macarons to celebrate Toy Story 5 having been announced and for some cool people 🥰

For the buttercream, I just did my usual Swiss Meringue buttercream and add a packet or two of Trung Nguyên G7 Instant Black Coffee (I’ll link it in my story/What I Use highlight). Add it into the egg whites first so it can dissolve. Below is the base I use for most of my buttercream fillings.

𝙑𝘼𝙉𝙄𝙇𝙇𝘼 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙉 𝙎𝙒𝙄𝙎𝙎 𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙐𝙀 𝘽𝙐𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍𝘾𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙈
❀ 2 fl oz pasteurized egg whites
❀ 225g powdered sugar
❀ 225g salted butter; room temp and sliced into pieces
❀ 5 ml vanilla bean paste

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I use gel colors + master elites for my batter and to decorate ✨ Use my code MACANOMNOM when purchasing to get a discount! 🤩

Other things I use can be found in my “What I Use” highlight! There’s more in my Amazon storefront (click the link in my bio to go there)

I KNOW THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH BAKING AND IS PROBABLY THE LAST THING YOU’D EVER WANT TO SEE FROM A BAKING PAGE, BUT I WANTED TO SHARE THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT’S SOOOO COOL 😅

I just wanna watch him for a bit and I have plants that they like to eat so I’ll give him those trimmings. I will relocate him in a day or two because I will have a panic attack when he can fly 😵‍💫

He’s kinda cute in gross freaky way where I will never touch him with my bare hands, but I wanna watch him eat and poo lol

I shot this with a 100mm macro lens which I absolutely love and didn’t think I’d use it to shoot bugs 😂

Happy Lunar New Year ❤️

Filing is Vietnamese coffee buttercream with center of condensed milk (only the sữa ông thọ one iykyk 😤)

The red I use is Master Elites Red Rose! The best food coloring to achieve that kind of vibrant red. Use my code MACANOMNOM on their site to get a discount on your purchase 💜

💜D⃞ E⃞ T⃞ A⃞ I⃞ L⃞ S⃞💜
♥ French method
♥ almond flour
♥ liqua-gels
♥ youjia edible markers
♥ royal icing for eyes/nose
♥ template created by me using
♥ check out my “What I Use” highlight for more

✨𝗧𝗨𝗫𝗘𝗗𝗢 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗬𝗔𝗞𝗜 𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗦✨

(っ◔◡◔)っ 💖 Be sure to 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 and 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 this reel for when you want to make a lychee rose buttercream or you just need a reminder to not let social media get to you 💖

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♡ 2 sticks softened unsalted butter
♡ a lil’ pinch of salt
♡ 3 1/2 cups/455 gr powdered sugar
♡ 3 tbsp/45 ml lychee purée (or 2 tbsp/30 ml extract)
♡ 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml rose water
♡ a tiny drop of pink food coloring (optional)

With a mixer, beat the butter and salt until creamy.
Gradually mix in powdered sugar and add the lychee, rose water, and pink coloring. You can add in more lychee until you get a texture/taste to your liking.

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I had to re-do this character/design 3 times before I got a decent batch. Macarons are so finicky and it certainly doesn’t help when doing character macarons - even when you aren’t doing anything different than you normally do.

It was very frustrating and had me feeling deflated. Hours of piping just for it to not work out and then having to start over. One of my biggest problems is that I’m very hard on myself and if I don’t get it right on the first time, I feel like a failure. That’s such an incredibly unhealthy way of thinking and I know I’m not alone with that.

Let’s try our best to be more gentle with ourselves 💜

but catch me crying the next time I get a bad batch of macarons 😂