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Splatter Painted French Macarons

Use edible food paint to make these colorful splatter painted French Macarons! Plus, a step by step recipe for plain french macaron shells.

Painting macarons, or sugar cookies or cakes, for that matter is so easy! All you need is some high quality food coloring gel, a food safe paintbrush, and a bit of vodka or almond extract.

I probably should have inserted some some sort of joke here about drinking vodka to reduce the stress of making macarons, but it’s actually for your paint! It’s the perfect solvent for your gel food coloring. It evaporates when it dries and leaves no taste or unwanted color behind…. Read More »

Gold Painted Heart Macarons with Raspberry Filling

The prettiest pink macarons with an easy raspberry buttercream filling recipe and decorated with edible gold paint to add that special touch!

These macarons are proof that gold makes everything better, particularly edible gold paint. Ever since my first successful batch, I’ve been making macarons like crazy! These darling pale pink ones with raspberry filling were a hit at the recent Galentine’s day fête that I hosted for some of my blogger friends. Adding painted gold hearts only took a few extra minutes (just a drop in the ocean when it comes to macarons). It really made them exceptional…. Read More »

Valentine’s Candy Bark with White Chocolate

Valentine’s Candy Bark with White Chocolate is equally festive and delicious. It’s easy to make and is a great Valentine’s party recipe.

I’ve had Valentine’s candy on the brain in a big way lately.

Picking out the perfect candy for this Valentine’s bark recipe, I felt like I was three years old again. Rows and rows of heart-shaped candy with more shades of pink than a crayon box. Heaven. It’s the most wonderful time of the year for my sweet tooth…. Read More »

Decorate Poop Emoji Cookies with Royal Icing

Poop emoji cookies decorated with royal icing are a funny and unique idea for your next party. Another idea is to make unicorn rainbow poop cookies!

I made these Poop Emoji Cookies for a recent blogger event. I was worried people would think they were a little too weird, but my fears were unfounded. They were a huge hit – and the most commonly photographed and eaten food from the event. They are silly and whimsical, and I’m sure will be a hit at your party too…. Read More »

NY Times + Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies

A recipe for freaking fantastic chocolate chip cookies by Jacques Torres, via the New York Times. Absolutely worth the planning and fancy ingredients!

A few years ago, I published a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and called them the best I’d ever made. At that point, this was true. I still make that recipe all the time. I almost always have a bag of them individually partitioned in the freezer ready to pop in the oven for those unexpected guests.

That being said, they are no longer the best cookies I’ve ever made. This recipe is both the best chocolate chip cookie I’ve ever made and the best I’ve ever eaten. They are perfectly soft, but still chewy and féves, or discs, of chocolate make every bite packed with melty chocolate. They are insanely delicious…. Read More »

French Macarons with Easy Green Tea Buttercream

Perfect green tea french macarons. They are filled with a fool proof green tea buttercream frosting made with dissolvable green tea. So easy it should be illegal!

The perfect french macaron is so elusive. Honestly, I’ve made dozens of batches and even took a macaron class and still couldn’t get them to turn out perfectly! They were either cracked, or didn’t have feet (that perfect little less smooth part on the edge). It makes me appreciate why it often costs several dollars per macaron when you buy them in stores.

Ironically, one of my most popular blog recipes is for french macarons. These splatter painted french macarons have been pinned almost 10,000 times and bring a steady stream of traffic here to A Side of Sweet. If you look closely though, there is not a foot (feet?) to be found. The are completely flat…. Read More »

Candy Corn Halloween Dessert Pizza

Real candy corn is the WORST. Upgrade with this Candy Corn Halloween Dessert Pizza made with sugar cookies! It’s the perfect Halloween party recipe.

Let’s face it. Real candy corn is the worst. Does anyone actually enjoy eating this saccharine-sweet mushy candy? Still, it’s in candy bowls everywhere now. The upside, I suppose, is that it’s basically petrified. You can put it away in your Halloween decoration box and bring it out again next year and it will taste Exactly. the. same. Heck, you could take a hiatus from Halloween for ten years and your candy corn would still be there waiting for you in mint condition.

This Halloween, enjoy your candy corn in the best way possible – in dessert pizza form made from sugar cookie dough in this fun recipe! I’ve put it all together in a fun and easy video on my YouTube channel, and it’s also below, along with my favorite ever sugar cookie recipe. This recipe will give you perfectly soft sugar cookies every day without the fuss and muss of needing to chill the dough or sift the ingredients.

Get the recipe and see the accompanying video after the jump!… Read More »

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