French Macarons for Beginners: Foolproof Recipes with 30 Shells and 30 Fillings

I finally had time to make macarons. This book was extremely helpful. I recommend it for anyone that wants to give making macarons a try. It's not just recipes but do's, don't's, and helpful tips. It gave me the confidence I needed to bake a successful macaron. I made these on my first try for a tea party. Look at those FEET! I made the Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Buttercream filling.

Love this book! I gotIt for some new recipes and it was totally worth it !!

Love this book. Has a ton of knowledge in it.

If you already have your macaron recipe working, maybe that's not the book for you. It brings nice tips and some recipes to give some flavor to the shells, but is quite the same recipe always. But they do work nice! I tried the banana shell, but filled with dulce de leche.

I gave this book 5 stars because it really does have some great recipes and a lot of information it. My recommendation though for the buttercream recipes is to do one batch at a time. I recently made a recipe from this book and made 4 batches of a buttercream recipe. I measured every thing correctly and I felt like there was too much liquid in the mixing bowl. It was kind of just moving the butter mixture around and not forming like buttercream should. I found that I have to add more confectioners sugar to soak up the remaining liquids and to think up the butter mixture. So next time I make a buttercream from this book, I’m making one batch to see if I have the same problem.

My ten year old daughter and I bought this book to make macarons for the first time ever. We made the chocolate shells with a chocolate filling, and our first attempt was beautiful and delicious. While they were time consuming, the instructions were clear, and the intimidating project wasn’t difficult. I’m very happy I found this book.

Bought this as I wanted to learn a reliable technique after many failed attempts this book really helped. Well written with great tutorial and recipes too.

I am not new to baking but am new to macarons. I'd never even eaten one! My son, however, loves them. Then, I was tasked w/making them for a baby shower. Fortunately, I had enough time to practice.I tried online recipes but I was having very mixed results. I happened onto this book and AM SO GLAD I DID! Every trouble shooting issue I have had she has it in that section. I have weighed everything and HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS METHOD! I've known forever that weighing is more accurate but have never happened across a recipe where it makes all the difference. The recipes are excellent. AND, every recipe is complete versus 'go to basic directions for making...' I HATE flipping pages!I do suggest a stand mixer. Also, when she says 'room temperature butter' (for fillings) she means it! I have made 3 filling recipes, did not have warm enough butter for the first and it showed. The others, I had twice as much filling as I needed, the only negative, in my opinion.She recommends silicone mats versus parchment paper and there are ones marked specifically for macarons, I highly recommend those. Also, I use disposable decorating bags- large ones (18") and just cut the corner to pipe out the cookies, also recommend this method.One other thing, my earlier attempts, when it said to 'allow top to dry to the touch' they mean a feather touch. My earlier efforts def sat too long before baking because I kind of pushed past the 'crust'.This is AN EXCELLENT BOOK! I cannot recommend it enough.