Some backstory on the art. My goal was to give Pretty Cure fans a series of macarons based on their favorite cures they could potentially make IRL if they wanted to.
So I would like to hear from you on how I score on that on a scale from 1(Hard) to 10 (Easy), and how hard it would be to recreate these. As well as some feedback on how I can make better designs that more easily translate to IRL macarons.
I did try to look up macaron flavors online to stay within the realm of realistic flavors.
As well as this, this is only a portion of the macarons I made I have about 211 different flavors I've found for the project. But Reddit has an image cap of 20.
I decided only to post one help post because the mods here told me that one help post might be popular and okay to post.
P.S. If anyone wants to try any of my macaron designs, you've got my blessing. I made these to spread joy, all I ask is that you do so to share photos of the macrons with me, I'd love to see how they translate to IRL.
by Jeanette9a
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This is so cute! You’ll probably need fondant or chocolate molds for this. Unless you do it the sugar print way, or you have very steady hands.
The flavor is usually in the filling, so in many of these it would be hard to get the color as light as is shown. Agree on fondant.
So, I’m just gonna put aside the flavors you’re proposing cuz it doesn’t seem thought out.
The macaron themselves aren’t the problem here (although it takes a steady hand to pipe the filling to create a braided effect on the side). It’s all the little things you’re putting on top. Do you have chocolate molds to this effect? Or, are you thinking of working with fondant or something? Not impossible, but they’d be a lot of very complicated work for tiny details which may not be really recognizable to an eater
Hello! Pastry chef who’s speciality is macarons over here. If you’d like I can give advice on the flavors but some of them are unrealistic and some wouldn’t honestly be that good.
Now for the decor, some of these would be super cute and translate very well. You could use fondant, chocolate or even royal icing. Other designs… ngl it’s impossible. Unless you have a mold and feel like spending hours on each individual variation, it wouldn’t be worth it.
I understand what you are trying to do with the drawing/design but in my honest opinion these look more like whoopie pies than macarons. Ironically I’m sorta the opposite of you, I’m a chef but dabble in some art. If you’d like I can send you some of my flavor guides that I draw. Macarons have “feet” and this is one of the defining features and then they have a filling. I think if you made them more obvious that would help!
When it comes to picking things that would be more realistic I strongly recommend researching decorated macarons and seeing what people have previously done and going from there! Hope this is worth something!
The flavors are very doable.
The little decoration nick nack stuck in top would only be easy if you found something similar made commercially that you could buy. Sugar bows would probably be easy to find. But there’s no way I’m making those by hand unless I can charge way more or I’m a bakery mass producing. Hard for a home cook to do. You can instead paint these designs by hand on shells. Still time consuming and requires artistic talent, but much easier than trying to sculpt something edible.
The drizzle design would be made out of chocolate so it would be brown or white chocolate colored to one color.
The swirls in the shell itself can be done, but as one swirl centered on the shell. Made by loading the piping bag like a stripped colored toothpaste tube and dragging the tip of the bag in an outward spiral before lifting.
Splatter and metalic luster dust of any color is super easy.