1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Draw 1-inch circles on the paper, ½-inch apart. 2. In a food processor, grind the almonds and powdered sugar to a fine powder. Sift the mixture through a ...

Last week’s cover story on Tribune reporter Heather Schroering’s quest to make macarons, the famously tricky French sandwich cookies, hit home with many readers. Madelaine Bullwinkel, the cooking ...

HOLLAND TWP. — With a bright pink exterior, it’s hard to miss Le Bon Macaron in downtown Holland. The sweets shop, which opened in March, offers macarons, specialty coffees and handcrafted sodas at ...

Plus, tips to try your hand at this French dessert at home. The French call it crème glacée, but however you scream for ice cream there's a sweet new Parisian spin on the cookie sandwich version of ...

Making French patisserie, window-worthy macarons may seem like an intimidating task. For many, these sweet tiny treats are a baking bucket list item that are only tackled by the bravest of bakers.

So many things can go wrong when you make macarons it's easy to feel discouraged before you even begin. But they're actually not all that hard - they just take a lot of preparation, a lot of time, and ...