Un Macaron Vert, S'il vous Plaît?

Bonsoir!

Or... Good evening! You know what's a lovely color?

Green.

Four leaf clovers which symbolize luck are green, zucchini's are green, money is green, Sprite... comes in a green bottle... the list goes on and on. Buuuut... the reason green is quite exciting for me today is because we made some green macarons- pistachio flavored. HELLO. They were soOoOoOoOoOo good. I mean, visually... they're considered rustic. They don't exactly look like they would be found in a prestigious French patisserie. Before your pupils become extremely dilated due to the gorgeousness (or rusticness) of these macarons, let's warm those pupils up with some delicious pistachio buttercream filling.

 

 

Do you see this? Do you see this? There are little baby pistachio nuggets floating throughout this butter and sugar cloud. I winged this filling, mainly because I wing everything and am very opposed to measuring devices. So, if you want to make it, here we go: one stick of room temperature butter, a navel orange sized mound of powdered sugar, a flick of salt, vanilla- kind of a lot, and of course, the baby pistachios. I also added some green food coloring because I thought it would make it gorgois (gorr-jhwah). Easy enough to follow, right?

 

But now for the star of this party, DA MACARONS. Remember- they're rustic.

 

 

Cute enough, yes!? They are a little misshapen, a little crackly, a little bit... salty, and a little sweet! They're like mini people. It's what's inside that counts! Which is heavenly pistachio crème. First attempt- I'd say it's a success! Next time we will have a sieve for a smoother batter, a spatula for proper folding of the batter, a piping bag... to pipe the batter, and... yeah! Those items will make them a little bit cuter I believe. I took inspiration from this recipe, but of course I didn't follow it to a T. 

 

Happy baking friends! And remember- even if you're a little bit rough around the edges, as long as you're sweet on the inside, someone will value what a lovely macaron you really are :)