How to Make Flavoured Macarons using Flavour Concentrates

Add gourmet flavour to your macarons with premium concentrates. Our high-quality flavourings are perfect for enhancing both the shells and fillings of your macarons — giving you endless creative options for professional quality results.

What you’ll need:

✦ Flavour Concentrates
✦ Macaron shell ingredients (egg whites, almond meal, icing sugar and caster sugar)
✦ Buttercream, ganache, jam or cream cheese for filling
✦ Food colouring (optional)
✦ Piping bags and nozzles
✦ Mixing bowls and stand mixer
✦ Baking trays with parchment paper or silicone mats

Woman in a kitchen making colorful macarons

Step-by-step guide

Build

Follow your preferred French, Italian, or Swiss meringue macaron recipe. Only use water-based or PG-based flavour concentrates in the shell to avoid affecting texture.

Pipe your mixture onto lined baking trays and bake according to your preferred recipe.

Flavour

Add 1–3 drops of flavour concentrate to your whipped meringue mixture before folding in the almond meal mixture.

Prepare a buttercream, ganache, or cream cheese-based filling. Flavouring Ratio: Use 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of concentrate per cup of filling. Mix well and adjust to taste.

Finish

Once the shells have cooled completely, pipe your flavoured filling onto one shell and sandwich it with another.

Place assembled macarons in an airtight container in the fridge for 24–48 hours. This allows the flavours to meld and the texture to perfect.

What else can you add to macarons?

Customise your macarons with a little extra creativity!

✦ Food Colouring: Add Colourmill food colours to your shells to complement your chosen flavour.
✦ Flavoured Fillings: Experiment with buttercream, ganache, jams and fruit-inspired fillings.
✦ Chocolate: Add melted chocolate or chocolate pieces to suitable fillings.
✦ Fruit: Try fruit powders or suitable fruit preparations for extra flavour and texture.
✦ Decorative Finishes: Add crushed nuts, sprinkles or a delicate chocolate drizzle.

Colorful macarons on a pink background with a hand reaching for one.

Tips for best results

✦ Use minimal liquid to preserve shell structure — add flavours to meringue, not almond mix.
✦ Let macarons mature for at least 24 hours for full flavour development.
✦ Pair flavours creatively — combine fruit with spice, floral with citrus, etc.
✦ Avoid oil-based flavours in shells (they can deflate meringue); use in fillings only.

What flavours work well in macarons?

✦ Raspberry + Rose Essence
✦ Pistachio
✦ Lemon + Basil
✦ Chocolate + Orange
✦ Coffee + Vanilla
✦ Salted Caramel