When I looked ahead and saw that today is National Macaroon Day, I consulted my cookbooks and prepared Dorie Greenspan’s coconut patties, her variation on the classic. Delicious.
This blogger and others on social media are posting the French macaron. Le sigh. A single letter is a world of difference.
Returning to cupcakery, a D.C. bakery makes macaron-topped cupcakes. The Sweet Lobby’s “mactop” cupcake won on Cupcake Wars. The bakery posted the following for the owner’s recent appearance on Chopped.
Macaroon ≠ macaron. Fuse with cupcake because you can. C’est la vie.
Andrea Adleman | Cupcakologist 