These Easter Bunny Macarons are going to be the hit of your celebration desserts! Chocolate Macarons filled with an orange cream cheese filling!
Easter Bunny Macarons
Here comes Peter Cottontail, hoppin’ down the bunny trail! Hippy, Hoppity, Easter’s on its way!
I love Easter, but I love Spring even more. We got another batch of snow on Sunday night and I was so bummed! My bulbs are starting to push up and there were a few buds on the plants that enjoyed the nice 60 degree weather last week. I think Old Man Winter is trying his darnedest not to let the season go.
To celebrate Easter approaching, I made some Bunny Macarons.
First off, don’t be afraid to try making Macarons. They are finicky, but they should not be feared. Watch a few YouTube videos and check out a few different recipes. They aren’t all the same, kinda like chocolate chip cookie recipes.
I made Macarons for the first time at a cooking class. My macs didn’t turn out well, but I’m totally blaming that on not having a proper mixer and having to whip the egg whites by hand with a whisk! Talk about torture!
But I tried at home with three different recipes. You can read about my experience about it here.
Tips for Making Macarons
The trick is to weigh your ingredients.
Measuring out a cup of almond meal and a cup of powdered sugar isn’t going to cut it. You MUST weigh it.
The second trick is to let them start to dry before placing them into the oven. This will help to seal the tops and create that nice foot as it puffs up from the steam.
The third tip is for these bunnies specifically. Don’t try to make all the fronts and backs the same. It’s easier to simply make half that batch with ears and the other half as circles. I didn’t make a template and I love how all the bunny macarons have different ear personalities.
Filling the Easter Bunny Macarons
Filling these Easter Bunny Macarons is easy. Use your favorite frosting recipe or ganache recipe. For these, I reserved some of the cream cheese frosting I used to frost my cake with. Simply pipe a thin layer on and then sandwich with another Mac. Simple!
Looking for more yummy Macaron Recipes? Of course you are! My blogging friends have yummy ones like these Peanut Butter and Jelly Macrons, amazing S’Mores French Macarons, and Double Chocolate French Macarons.
This recipe is part one of a three part series including Orange Cream Cheese Frosting and a Carrot Cake Recipe.
Easter Bunny Macarons
These Easter Bunny Macarons are going to be the hit of your celebration desserts! Chocolate Macarons filled with an orange cream cheese filling!
Ingredients
For the Macarons
- 100 grams Powdered Sugar
- 100 grams Almond Flour
- 1 Tablespoon cocoa
- 2 egg whites
- 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 55 grams of superfine sugar
For the decorations
- Edible Food Coloring Pens
- Black Candy Melts
- White Chocolate
- Mini Heart Sprinkles
- Bow Mold
- Brown Jimmies, crushed
Instructions
- Line two baking sheets with parchment or a silicone mat. Prepare a pastry bag with a large round tip and preheat the oven to 350℉.
- Combine the powdered sugar, almond flour, and cocoa in a food processor and pulse several times to combine.
- Place the egg whites into a mixer with a whisk attachment and whip until foamy. Add in the cream of tartar and increase the speed to medium-high. When soft peaks start to form, gradually add in the superfine sugar. Increase the speed to high and whip until stiff peaks form.
- Remove the mixing bowl and sift ⅓ of the almond sugar mixture over the meringue. Fold in until it's incorporated and then add in another ⅓ of the mixture. Fold again and then add in all of the flour and sugar folding until the mixture is thick and viscus and falls off the spatula in a long ribbon.
- Transfer the mixture into the piping bag and pipe out 1½ inch circles, adding "ears" to half of them, leaving the other half round.
- Bang the cookie sheet on the counter to get out any air bubbles. Let them sit for 20 - 30 minutes and make sure that their surfaces are dry to the touch.
- Reduce the heat to 325℉ and bake one sheet at a time for 10 minutes, turning the sheet halfway through.
- Let the cookies cool completely on the sheets. Do not try to remove them while they are still warm, they will most likely rip the bottoms. Peel away the parchment or silicon from the cool Macarons.
To Decorate the Bunnies
- Use Edible Markers or black candy melts to draw on the eyes and little mouth. Add a white dot of candy to the eyes and to the nose. Attach the mini heart sprinkle for the nose. Make bows with white candy and black candy. Attach the bows to make girls and boys.
- In my first batch of bunnies, I also added pink cheeks with edible markers and gave the girls some eyelashes. Design them as you'd like.
- Add little bunny tails to the round cookies. Add a dollop of black candy to the lower center of the cookie and add some crushed jimmies to give it some fluff.
- When you are ready to serve the cookies, add your filling and sandwich them together. I used some of the Orange Cream Cheese Frosting.
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Love these little guys!! They are just too cute!!
Thanks so much. I was very pleased on how they turned out!
Oh my god. These are adorable and I applaud your masterful macaron skillz.
Thank you! Thank you! I was just patient and held my breath, did a little offering to the Macaron gods and wore my lucky undies. It all worked out great 🙂
these are so cute!
These macarons are too cute! LOVE them!
Thank you. I thought so too.
These are the absolute cutest cookies! If I wasn’t so afraid of making macaroons, I’d try them. They look fabulous!
Just take your time and weigh the ingredients. It’s baking, not rocket science.
These are such great fun, what a fab idea, pity about the ones that burnt.
I was so bummed to have to make them again. They were so perfect. Luckily, the second batch turned out just as well.
Too cute!! I may have to make these for my son’s classroom!
Good luck! Take your time and weigh your ingredients.
Love them!!!
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Thanks for sharing this cute post at the Say G’Day Saturday linky party. I will be featuring this post at this weekend’s ink up. I’ve just pinned this and shared on Google+ too.
Hope you can join in again this weekend!
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Natasha in Oz
Thanks for the feature 🙂
Completely adorable! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
thanks for having me over, Karly!
Seriously genius!!
thanks so much 🙂
How do you store these? Can they be kept for a few days or must they be eaten ASAP?
The bunnies are just too darn cute and I’m anxious to try making them…first time ever.
Thanks for a great helping blog.
Keep them away from any moisture of humid environment. They are best stored in a sealed container on the counter. I left them in the oven to keep the dry.
Thanks Karyn for the fast answer. Not sure when I’ll be attempting them but I’m anxious to try.
So cute,I want to try these but I have a question did u pipe it out in the shape of a bunny or did u use a cutter and pipe it in it to turn out so good.Sorry if it sounds foolish but I am just checking out different recipes and learn how to make them.thanks so much for answering love your post,and recipes.Thank you Colleen Becker.
I pipped the shapes. Make Round bodies and then add the ears. They do have mats with circle guides. Look on amazon for Macaron Baking Mats. I was going to make bunnies for the front and back, but it was too hard to match up. That’s why they just have round butts.