Mini Macaron Lollipops

Name: Mini Macaron Lollipops
Yield: Makes about 30 macarons
Ingredients: about 30 short lollipop or cake-pop sticks; about 30 petit four cases to serve; gel or paste food colouring, green; sugar sprinkles in contrasting colours (optional); 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup butter, softened; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted; 5-10 ml/1-2 tsp lemon juice; gel or paste food colouring, yellow; 90 g/3½ oz ground almonds; 75 g/3 oz egg white (roughly two medium eggs); 115 g/4 oz icing (confectioners’) sugar; 50 g/2 oz caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Makes about
30
macarons

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cupcakes for Kids

By Rosie Anness and Cortina Butler

Published 2014

About

Little French macarons on lollipop sticks or nestled in petit four cases make wonderful child-sized treats in bright colours. They are not difficult to make as long as you measure the ingredients and follow the instructions carefully. If you want to make more than one colour, it is better to make two separate batches of mixture.

Ingredients

For the Macarons

90 g/3½ oz ground almonds
115 g/4

Cake
Birthday
Vegetarian

Method

Line two baking sheets with baking parchment.
Put the ground almonds and the icing sugar in a food processor and process for 2-3 minutes until the mixture is very fine. Do not over-process. Sift the sugar and almond mixture into a bowl and set aside. Discard any bits of almond left in the sieve (strainer) — do not force them through.
Place the egg whi