Holiday Wreath Meringue Macarons — These holiday wreath meringue macarons are SO cute. And you can really add these colorful meringues to just about any dessert…
I’m super excited that I was able to get my hot-mess self in gear enough to make some holiday wreath meringue macarons for a blogger cookie exchange with some of my faves!
Last year, I was way too insanely pregnant and overwhelmed to partake. So I’m jumping back on the bandwagon this year, woohoo!
You may remember my everything sweet sugar cookies (which I’ll definitely be making with Gwen this year) from our last cookie exchange. And these macarons are equally colorful and festive.
Since there are about a bazillion classic vanilla macaron recipes, I’ll be sticking with sharing how to decorate your own favorite recipe.
Plus, you can find allllll of the yummy homemade cookie recipes from by blogger pals linked at the bottom of the post.
Materials And Tools Needed To Make Meringue Macarons
- Meringue recipe — See below.
- Royal icing
- Piping bag
- Various star icing tips
- Macarons — You can save time by buying your own or check out our best and easy how to make macarons recipe!
More Fun Dessert Recipes And DIY’s From Our Blogger Friends
Be sure to check out the rest of the cookies from the #ChristmasCookieSquad
Chocolate Linzer Cookies on The Effortless Chic
Iced Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookies on Pizzazzerie
Christmas Sprinkle Cookie Cups on Inspired by Charm
Gingerbread Egg Nog Cookie Sandwiches on Paper & Stitch
Mini Gingerbread Alphabet Cookies on Lovely Indeed
Classic Frosted Cutout Sugar Cookies on Freutcake
Fudge Dipped Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies on The Sweetest Occasion
Latte Joy Espresso Cookies by Julie Blanner
Mac Hack: Decorating Store-bought Macarons For The Holidays on The Proper Blog
Plus, you can see more of our past cookie recipes right here.
DIY Macarons | Colorful Kisses Meringue Macarons
Equipment
- Mixer
- Piping bag
- Baking pan
- Parchment paper or silicone mats
Ingredients
- 2 egg whites room temperature
- 1 vanilla bean pod
- 2 tsp cream of tartar
- 0.125 tsp salt
- 0.5 cup fine sugar
- 0.25 cup ground chocolate morsels optional for flavor
- Gel food colors
Nutrition
Instructions
- Heat oven to 200F degrees.
- Use a mixer to beat together the egg whites with cream of tartar, salt and scraped vanilla bean pod.
- When whites begin to have stiff peaks, gradually add half the sugar. Add the rest of the sugar once the peaks should become a bit shiny.
- Seperate even amounts of the meringue mixture into bowls to mix in the gel food colors. Mix completely and then add the mixtures into piping bags.
- Line a baking pan with a silicone mat (or parchment paper) and use the piping bags with various tips and colors of meringue, then bake for 90 minutes to two hours.
- Let them cool slowly in the oven, you'll know they're ready once they release from the baking mat or parchment paper.
- Using royal icing as edible glue to ahere the dots to the tops of your macarons in a circle to create an edible wreath made from meringues!
et them cool slowly in the oven, you’ll know they’re ready once they release from the baking mat or parchment paper.
The cookies look so reincarnated and beautiful, the girls will love that recipe.
So glad to hear!
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Wow, the cake looks so delicious and so wonderful. I really want to enjoy it. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
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It looks very colorful and beautiful. I think the kids are gonna love it.
I really like how colorful they are. I have never made macarons before, but I might have to give it a try!
You should definitely try it! Good luck!
I love it!! So colorful, and I bet it’s delicious!
Totally delicious!
These look like they would be so delicious. I have never made anything like this before.
Wow…I totally love these. They are so cute and colourful and love the candy cane addition xx
Those looks almost too pretty to eat! But they look delicious too!
This is good idea, It look pretty and I’m sure it taste soo delicious. I like how you did the pictures for it.
These photos brought back good memories of my days eating meringues cookies and more. They look yum
Wow those merengue macaroons look super cute. Im sure that they taste delicious also
Aw a blogger cookie exchange is such a cute idea! These cookies are so fabulous!
These are insanely gorgeous! I seriously wish I had any artistic talent in the this dept
Thanks Neely! We’re sure you could totally do this!
Everything is so pretty and colorful, my daughter will enjoy this post. I can’t wait to share it with her.
Thanks Marjie! We would love to see your creations!
Oh my gosh, these are so cute! I bet my boys would love to make some of these. The cookies are so fun and colorful.
Thank you so much Stephanie!
These look amazing! I really like how colorful they are. I have never made macarons before, but I might have to give it a try!
Thanks Patricia! You would love these!
I absolutely love these!! They are so cute… and I bet they taste delicious too!
Thank you so much, Kate! These holiday wreath macarons are so delicious!
These cookies are so cute!! They would look beautiful on a Christmas Cookie tray!
Thanks Deanna! These holiday wreath macarons might have been my favorite cookies yet!
These are brilliant! For sure I could never make them look this good, but I might have to try!
OMG! These are gorgeous. Love all the colors.
Thanks Brittni!
Ash! These are so dang cute it hurts!!!! You do the macs so well and these wreaths are my new fave!
Thanks Lexy!