How to Make an Easy DIY Marbled Macarons

Beautify your macarons with a simple ingredient! We used a whip cream trick to create these DIY Marbled Macarons! 

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth
DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

I may have just discovered my new favorite #glossaryofmacs project with these DIY marbled macarons!

I’ve been meaning to attempt this project forever.

But I just wasn’t quite sure how to make it work without baking the colors into the macarons themselves.

Not only does that cancel out a ton of people that wouldn’t want the struggle of making their own macs, but the colors aren’t nearly as vibrant or marbled that way.

We discovered this genius shaving cream marbling tutorial and then I finally figured out the perfect edible equivalent to make DIY marbled macarons with!

Now, my French die-hard fans will roll over in their graves for treating precious macarons with this technique.

But for those of you in this for the look and taste, these are just as good as any! Any guesses on what we used?!

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

Materials and Tools Needed to Make DIY Marbled Macarons  

Almond or vanilla macarons – Store-bought or use homemade French macarons or Italian macarons

Gel food colors

Toothpicks

Un-patterned paper towels

Wax paper

Whipped cream or Cool Whip

Edible gold dust (optional)

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

How to Make DIY Marbled Macarons

1 — To start, you can tape down a sheet of wax paper to work on or you can just use paper plates if you’re not making that many. 

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

Even better than shaving cream? Whipped cream!

2 —Use a spatula to smear a thin layer of whipped cream or cool whip onto your plate or wax paper. This is what you’ll be dipping the macarons in!

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

3 — Using toothpicks, create a design in the whipped cream.

Below is a photo of what our food color patterns looked like to achieve each marbled effect. The more color, the more covered and “watercolor-ish” the macron will look.

If you’re scarce with the color, it will yield a more marbled effect.

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth
DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

4 — Once you have your color pattern, place the macaron on top of the whipped cream. Make sure the sides get covered by VERY gently rolling it in the cream.

5 — Lift the macaron back up and wait about 30 second to let the food color sink into the cookie.

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth
DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

6 — Now dab the whipped cream excess off on un-patterned paper towels.

You can gently wipe the cream off if you’d like a more brushstroke effect.

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

Now you can have a heyday with every color combination you can think of!

We loved the idea of adding a bit of gold dust to the tops of some, and it’s such a pretty end result!

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth
DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth
DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth
DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

So what do you think?! Are DIY marbled macarons in your near future? I’m thinking they should be!

More DIY Macarons

If you’re looking for more colorful macaron projects, see some of my favorites below! 

DIY Marbled Macarons - Sugar and Cloth

DIY Marbled Macarons

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5 from 1 vote
Beautify your macarons with a simple ingredient!
Active Time30 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course Desserts, DIY

Equipment

  • Toothpicks
  • Wax paper

Materials

Instructions

  • To start, you can tape down a sheet of wax paper to work on or you can just use paper plates if you’re not making that many. 
    Even better than shaving cream? Whipped cream!
  • Use a spatula to smear a thin layer of whipped cream or cool whip onto your plate or wax paper. This is what you’ll be dipping the macarons in!
  • Using toothpicks, create a design in the whipped cream.
    Below is a photo of what our food color patterns looked like to achieve each marbled effect. The more color, the more covered and “watercolor-ish” the macron will look.
    If you’re scarce with the color, it will yield a more marbled effect.
  • Once you have your color pattern, place the macaron on top of the whipped cream. Make sure the sides get covered by VERY gently rolling it in the cream
  • Lift the macaron back up and wait about 30 second to let the food color sink into the cookie.
  • Now dab the whipped cream excess off on un-patterned paper towels.
    You can gently wipe the cream off if you’d like a more brushstroke effect.
Cost: $35
KEYWORD: diy marbled macarons

Be sure to share your creations with #glossaryofmacs on Instagram for us to follow along, plus you can see all of our other macaron creations here!

 

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15 thoughts on “How to Make an Easy DIY Marbled Macarons”

  1. Hi! Those are so awesome and super cute! I just have one question, can you freeze these macarons after the marbling? And if you can, HOW long time? :-)

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    • We usually use store-bought! Making them is a quite a long process, which is why we don’t share recipes, just the how-to’s! We want them to seem do-able for people! :)

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  2. Wow! I’m amazed! this looks absolutely amazing. I can’t wait to try this. Can i use the whipped cream from the bottled one. The one that has already been whipped in a can sprayer. Can i use that one instead?

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  3. Wow…This is macarons on a whole new level! I admire your delicate skill in making macarons! I never can get the cookie part to rise as much as it’s needed! Perhaps I don’t sift the almond flour as much as I need to. The marble effect is beautiful! =) Just beautiful! Orinigial and inventive!

    Melanie | Toots + Dill

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