Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate French Macarons this Valentine’s Day

If you love making macarons than you must try these Valentine Heart Macarons. You will be surprised how easy these hearts are to pipe. Nothing like turning your classic Strawberry Macaron recipe into something more special for a someone very special.

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Don’t these look quite? Now I must admit I was supposed to make these for Ziv but it was a bad idea to tell the kids about it. Well, they figured since it was for their dada they had the right to be all over it. Not easy to take pictures and make macarons with kids around. Some of the pictures came quite blurry!! Eesh.

This is my original recipe for Strawberry French Macarons with Strawberry Buttercream – just piped in a heart shape.

Method

Whip egg whites

Place the egg whites in a grease free mixer bowl with whisk attachment – start whisking on medium speed.

Add cream of tartar.

After a few seconds start adding the fine white sugar a little at a time.

Once all the sugar has been added – whisk on medium-high for another minute or so until stiff peaks.

Add zest, food color and extract.

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Prepare dry ingredients

Ensure the almond meal is super fine. If necessary pulse in the food processor a few times.

Sieve the powder sugar and Almond meal at least twice to remove any coarse nuts.

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Macronage

Next, add the dry mixture all at once.

You need to fold the mixture until you have what is called a dropping consistency or a thick cake batter consistency.
Which means when you hold a little batter in your spoon and drop it back into the bowl it should drop smoothly not forcefully.

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Pipe

Next place the batter into a piping bag with a large round tip.

Pipe similar size Macarons on to a parchment paper using a template.

The best way to pipe these hearts is to use a heart template. I pipe two teardrop shapes with the tail tapering downwards. When the two teardrops meet it forms a heart shape.

Tap the baking sheet on the counter a couple times so all the air pockets will rise to the top and release. That way you won’t have big holes in your macarons.

Let the macarons rest in a cool dry place for about 20 minutes so the tops will get crusted. In places with high humidity, this can take up to 30 minutes. This will give you a good dry shell on top.

While the macarons are drying – preheat the oven to 150 C/300 F.

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Bake / Cool

Bake these for 15 to 18 minutes depending on your oven. The tops will look set and the bottom should not be wet.

The top shell should be shiny and the bottom crusty (also called macaron feet).

Let cool on the parchment for a while then take them off and let cool completely.

Fill / Store

Once cool, fill with your favorite filling.

Macarons must be stored in the fridge and are best eaten one or two days later.

Ingredients

Method

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Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate with French Macarons

Recipe Card – Valentine Heart Macarons

Valentine Heart Macarons - Celebrate with French Macarons

If you love making macarons than you must try these Valentine Heart Macarons. You will be surprised how easy these hearts are to pipe. Nothing like turning your classic Strawberry Macaron recipe into something more special for a someone very special.

Strawberry Buttercream (quick and easy)

Instructions

Whip egg whites

Place the egg whites in a grease-free mixer bowl with whisk attachment - start whisking on medium speed.

Add cream of tartar

After a few seconds start adding the fine white sugar a little at a time.

Once all the sugar has been added - whisk on medium-high for another minute or so until stiff peaks.

Add zest, food color and extract.

Prepare dry ingredients

Ensure the almond meal is super fine. If necessary pulse in the food processor a few times.

Sieve the powdered sugar and Almond meal at least twice to remove any coarse nuts

Macronage

Next, add the dry mixture all at once.

You need to fold the mixture until you have what is called a dropping consistency or a thick cake batter consistency. Which means when you hold a little batter in your spoon and drop it back into the bowl it should drop smoothly not forcefully.

Pipe

Next place the batter into a piping bag with a large round tip

Pipe similar size macarons on to a parchment paper using a template.

The best way to pipe is to squeeze until you have a good mound then swirl the tip to one side. But don't' worry if you don't get it. Just take the tip of your finger and tap the points down.

Tap the baking sheet on the counter a couple times so all the air pockets will rise to the top and release. That way you won't have big holes in your macarons.

Let the macarons rest in a cool dry place for about 20 minutes so the tops will get crusted. In places, with high humidity, this can take up to 30 minutes. This will give you a good dry shell on top.

While the macarons are drying - preheat the oven to 150 C/300 F

Bake / Cool

Bake these for 15 to 18 minutes depending on your oven. The tops will look set and the bottom should not be wet.

The top shell should be shiny and the bottom crusty (also called macaron feet).

Let cool on the parchment for a while then take them off and let cool completely.

Fill / Store

Once cool, fill with your favorite filling.

Macarons must be stored in the fridge and are best eaten one or two days later

I do hope you find the time to make these. They are so cute. Don’t you agree?

Valentine Heart Macarons – Celebrate French Macarons

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