Lemon Macaron Recipe

The sweet and tangy balance in these lemon macarons make them the perfect spring treat.

Lemon macaron recipe. Here are more of my favorite sweet treats. This simple easy and effortless recipe uses my full proof macaron recipe as a base so you can make these successfully over and over again. And if youre serious about making perfect macaron i highly recommend using a scale to weigh all the ingredients to up your chances for perfect macarons. French macarons are on trend all year round.

The macaron shells are bursting with lemon zest and lemon extract to give you a tangy crunchy cookie that is filled with a sweet lemon vanilla bean buttercream. Beautifully light citrus flavor. These macarons turned out extremely well and everyone loved it. Depending on what kind of macaron youre dealing with that might change.

Most of my recipes include both metric and volume measurements but for my macaron recipes i decided to only share metric measurements because precision is utmost importance in macaron success. This macaron filling recipe is the base of so many wonderful macaron flavors. I dont know about you but i found that every lemon curd macaron ive had in the past has been soggy since fruit curds are. Now even though a macaron is based on meringue the meringue needs to be deflated to a certain point and thats the tricky part knowing just how much to deflate.

For example these lemon macarons have a shelf life of about 1 week in the fridge and up to 2 months in the freezer because thats the basic shelf life of the lemon curd. The buttercream is piped into a ring shape creating a dam which will then be filled with lemon curd. A little about this recipe for macarons. This recipe im sharing with you today involves making a lemon curd first and then adding it into a swiss meringue buttercream to create a lemon buttercream.

These lemon french macarons filled with lemon curd and swiss meringue buttercream are especially refreshing and light. For this macaron recipe i used two of my back to cake basics recipes my delicious and sour lemon buttercream and my easy 5 ingredient lemon curdboth of these recipes yield a large amount of product so ive left the downsized ingredient measurements below in the recipe card. Just click on the picture for the recipe. Theyre also so delicious on their own.

Its important to have a batter that flows it is said that it should flow like magma not that i have ever seen magma. Even your gluten intolerant friends can enjoy in them. I could have made chocolate oreo nutella as kids love these flavors but i thought nothing can be more perfect then lemons in summers. Did i mention that these lemon macarons are gluten free.