Yes, it’s only been five days since I’ve last played with my food. This time I had a little encouragement though after a Friday morning meeting with Bite Macarons here in Houston, when naturally I left with two dozen colorful cookies…
Seeing as how the fruit trend is still going full force and I’m surrounding myself with bad macaron influences, I decided I’d try my hand at a little fruit cookie action to make my college art career worthwhile. Luckily my career there wasn’t super impressive and there’s this magical thing called Amazon Prime that sells pre-made royal icing goodies, so these are sure to be do-able for the masses. With all of this in mind, these DIY fruit macarons are surely destined to reignite the dying fruit basket, or kabob, or cake.. I could go on.
colored macarons
pre-made royal icing leaves (or you can make your own)
Most of the fruits are pretty simple to recreate so I won’t bore you with every single step, but I’ll show you how I made the kiwi since it’s the most intricate.
First things first, draw a line around the edge of the top of a mint green cookie with a basic green marker, and then blend it towards the center with your finger before it dries. Next, make a small oval in the center of the cookie with the same green, and start drawing thin, sporadic lines from the edges and outward. Repeat the lines with the darker green pen, and then make tiny dots with the brown and let it dry.
For the apples and grapes, I just used the same color marker as the cookie to shade around the edges for a little added umph and topped them off with a single chocolate sprinkle sticking into the creamy filling to act as the stem.
For the apple leaves, I just stuck a single royal icing leaf in the filling as well. I didn’t want to make the whole lemon leaves quite as predominate, so I broke the royal icing leaf in half and only used one side.
The rest are all about basic geometric shapes and mixing cookies and marker colors to get the look you’re going for whether it’s grapefruits made with pink macarons or lemons made with vanilla.
I really love the way they all turned out! Jared and I had a small debate about whether the apples look more like cherries or not, but we decided on the apple name.
Wouldn’t it be so cute to package these in pairs as guest favors with a little ribbon and paper leaf with guests names, or even as a clever way to recreate the “fruit” basket?
Everyone always says things are too cute to eat, but trust me, people will still eat these! And for those of you curious as to if the food markers change the taste of the macarons, I don’t think so. Then again, I’m not exactly the most sophisticated of palates either.
Brittni
07.23.14
These are SO amazing!!! One of my best macaron projects ever.
Ashley said:
Thanks b!
partypatisserie
07.23.14
Oh my gosh, I love these! I can hear the ooh and aws now!!! Would love for you to link up and share with our readers http://partypatisserie.com/2014/07/party-time-linky-2/
Ashley said:
Glad you like them!
Kristina
07.23.14
Absolutely perfect!
Ashley said:
Thanks Kristina!
Tabitha
07.23.14
Great job- these are awesome!
Ashley said:
Thanks Tabitha!
jewel7013
07.23.14
WOW< WOW<WOW
Amazing talent Ashley!
Ashley said:
Thank you!
Tainara Galhardo
07.23.14
Love it!
Ashley said:
Thanks Tainara!
The Domestic Rebel
07.23.14
You’re a true artiste! These are gorgeous!
Ashley said:
haha, something like that! ;) xo
Elsa
07.23.14
Wow! They look amazing! And I’m sure they taste good too :)
Ashley said:
Thanks Elsa! And yes, all too tasty, that’s always the problem haha ;)
Posh Little Designs
07.23.14
Oh my goodness…what a fab idea! Beautiful work as usual!
Ashley said:
Thank you!
Style Fragment (@stylefragment)
07.23.14
This is beyond cool, Ashley!
Ashley said:
thank you, thank you! Cool to see you’re local!
Victoria
07.23.14
So amazing!! love the styling!
Ashley said:
Thanks Victoria! xo
Poppytalk
07.23.14
So cute!
Ashley said:
Thanks Jan! Love everything in the new Poppytalk online shop. Hope you’re well! xo
Kim - The TomKat Studio
07.23.14
These are absolutely amazing!!
Ashley said:
Thanks so much Kim!
sarah
07.23.14
Wow! Really loving this, and just perfect for the summer time
Ashley said:
Thanks Sarah!
Laura (Tutti Dolci)
07.23.14
These are beyond gorgeous!
Ashley said:
Thank you Laura! Your peanut butter pretzel cookies look amazing!
Jamie
07.23.14
Is this real life?
Ashley said:
haha! Best comment ever ;)
Janneke
07.24.14
it’s almost indescribable how cute these are! :D
Ashley said:
Ah, thank you thank you!
cococakeland
07.24.14
ashley these are BONKERS cute. like straight out of outer space INSANELY cute! you are so clever. the photos and styling are beautiful as always, too. xo
Ashley said:
Coming from you and all of your edible cuteness I take that as a HUGE compliment! xo
Brittany
07.25.14
STOP IT!
Ashley said:
haha, thanks B!
Lisa
07.25.14
These all look so amazing!
Ashley said:
thank you Lisa!
lisa@hooplapalooza
07.25.14
oh i LOVE these so!!! :>D
Ashley said:
Thanks Lisa!
Samantha
07.26.14
These look amazing! Perfect for summer
Ashley said:
Thanks Samantha!
thaliaho
07.26.14
these are hands down the cutest macarons i have ever seen. i am definitely guilty of repinning these too many times!
Ashley said:
I mean, I don’t hate it! haha ;) Thank you!
lisa
07.31.14
I am seriously in awe.
Love it!
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sarahgiebens
07.31.14
Okay, that is the coolest thing I have ever seen!
So cool! Wow!
And so cute :D
Gabriel
08.01.14
Holy shiza!! This is PURE ART friend.
Catie
08.02.14
Wow! Beautiful! Must get food markers! Thanks for sharing :)
Glory/ Glorious Treats
08.03.14
LOVE, LOVE these!! So cheerful and perfect!
moni
08.12.14
I looooove this!
deloom (@deloom)
08.15.14
These look absolutely lovely! I would have never even thought to do this. Thank you for sharing!! xo
Ashley said:
of course! xo