Recipe: Tasty Cactus macarons

Recipe: Tasty Cactus macarons Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Cactus macarons. I am willing to bet that someone in the desert woke up one day and decided that he or she was going to create a cactus macaron. I don't know why, how, or when this trend came about, but it is seriously super cute. This is the perfect macaron for a themed, summer, or child's birthday party!

I'll just leave out the part about me squealing like a school girl when I figured out how to make.

Vanilla gives such a lovely flavour, although it can often be classed as being boring and plain.

These macarons may be 'plain' in flavour, but their appearance is far from it.

You can have Cactus macarons using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cactus macarons

1. Prepare of almond powder.

2. You need of icing sugar.

3. It’s of egg white.

4. You need of caster sugar.

5. Prepare of cream of tartar.

6. It’s of green tea powder.

7. You need of green food coloring.

8. Prepare of For the pot.

9. Prepare of crushed butter cookie.

10. You need of butter.

11. You need of crushed Oreo cookie (soil).

I first saw the idea of cactus macarons on Instagram. they just looked too cute and I knew I had to steal the idea - thank you to whoever thought.

The cactus is a symbol of protection in the desert.

Unfortunately, I recently had an encounter with a cactus during a shoot that ended with me feeling incredibly vulnerable and covered in pricklies (photo evidence here).

So, I've moved on from cactus photo shoots and upgraded to cactus-inspired macarons.

Cactus macarons step by step

1. Make meringue by beating egg white and cream of tartar, add caster sugar in small portion until stiff peak has formed.

2. Sieve almond powder and icing sugar then add into the meringue.

3. Add green tea powder, green food coloring.

4. Fold the dry ingredient into the meringue slowly until observe lava-like paste.

5. Pipe the mixture into cactus shaped on parchment paper. Let it dry for at least 30 min or until skin has formed.

6. Bake at 140C for 15 minute.

7. For the pot base, mix crushed cookie with butter. Put in the mold and bake at 150C for 10 min.

8. Add crushed Oreo cookie into butter cookie pot. Then decorate with cactus macaron.

These macarons will have your fiesta lookin sharp!

Each cactus macaron is beautifully handcrafted to order.

I am so excited to share with you some of the cutest macarons you will ever see!

I bring to you lemon flavoured cactus shaped macarons.

They are vegan, gluten, wheat-free and are the perfect sweet treat.