Chocolate Dipped "Strawberry Girl" Macs

This months mactweets challenge: Bake a mac inspired by a favorite summer childhood memory.

When I was younger I loved eating strawberries. They were my most favorite treat.

I loved them so much that quickly I became Strawberry Girl.

All throughout my childhood I collected all things strawberry. Cute outfits with strawberries on them. Little strawberry figurines. And many sweet strawberry tea sets. I think I remember having 10 different ones or something like that and I was so proud of them.

I ate strawberries all the time. Then one day something glorious happened. I was introduced to chocolate dipped strawberries. I had no idea a strawberry could even get any better- but dipped in chocolate! what a treat!

I remember being so excited dipping strawberries with mom. We would buy a Symphony chocolate bar, which I thought was so fancy and dip them and I could eat a bunch.

It was perfect.

So this months macs are appropriately chocolate dipped strawberry flavor. I even found one of my favorite strawberry tea sets to display them on.


They are filled with fresh strawberry Italian meringue buttercream.


And drizzled with delicious Callebaut milk chocolate.


I've been dreaming about macarons for months! These delicate little treats are not easy to come by and expensive when you do (but worth it!) so it is advantageous for macaron lovers to learn the art!

And learning I am! It took me a few trys to get into the mac-making groove. After my little hiatus my first batch of macarons came out looking like this:


bleh. We still ate all of them though :)

The results helped me remember a few things to do differently and the next batch came out like this:


Getting consistently uniform size is so hard for me! I really need to work on my piping! For now, I do my best to at least match both sides of each macaron so the cookie itself is uniform!