le macaron

what a surprise!. i love tryingfrenchfood. but every time i've had a macaron it has looked beautiful but tasted strange and plasticky with favors that are off... i wondered into this little shop while exploring park ave and was amazed. the customer service and passion for their product is top notch. these things are beautiful! so many colors and spot on favors. they are so light and buttery. i am convinced the person who makes these is a sorcerer because they are magical!

my friend and i were so excited to find a macaron placr in winter park! we go out there for dinner every month so its nice that its right there. i had never had a macaron before but was dying to try them. i was more than pleasantly suprised. i got the the box of 6 (which came out to a little over 11 dollars with taxes) and got the raspberry, cassis, coconut, colombian coffee, mint and white chocolate, and i am drawing a blank on the last one (ugh!!!!) of all the flavors, cassis and the raspberry were amazing!!! nice hard outside with a soft inside and full of flavor. the others were tasty as well but not as much flavor as the other two. all in all, i will definatley be going back cause im totally hooked to these tasty littlefrenchtreats!

macarons, not to be confused with macaroons, are a type offrenchcookies that were completely new to me. i always knew macaroons as those coconut cookies that seem to cross all cultural boundaries, found everywhere from kosher food stores to vietnamese markets to latin-american markets. it seems like the whole world loves those little mounds of coconut, so when i first heard aboutfrenchmacarons from droolius at a foodspotting dinner, i assumed these were the same type of cookie. apparently the difference is more than one less 'o' in the name...  a couple months later i visited le macaron in downtown winter park to finally try afrenchmacaron. le macaron is a little shop tucked away in an alley off park avenue. macarons are the main focus of this shop, but they also had a very limited selection of chocolates for sale as well. there was a gelato case too, but it was empty on the day i visited. at $1.80 each the macarons were a bit expensive for the small size of the pastry. regardles

off of park avenue, just north of morse blvd, you can walk down an alleyway corridor with a beautiful koi pond and stumble upon, next to paris bistro restaurant, a smallfrenchconfectionary shop called le macaron . an offshoot of the original store in sarasota, the purveyors of this bakery shop are recentfrenchimmigrants who take pride in their assortments of chocolates, macarons, and house-made gelatos. the decor reminds me of a small boutique shop, minimalistic and modern. there is some seating available outside. i first tried macarons at last year's share our strength's taste of the nation charity event . thesefrenchconfectionaries are small, crispy and airy round shells made from fresh ground almonds and soft meringue. they are like creme filled cookies like a mini whoopie pie, made with fresh ingredients and care, some crunchy some chewy, all delicious. the macarons come at $1.80 each, a pretty price to pay for the small desserts, but i suppose that's why thefrenchdon't hav

while there is no wrong way per say to make a macaron, it’s always good to taste the classic version first. visit le macaron to get a taste of an authenticfrenchversion and see which macarons you like best. le macaron