Bonus for my gluten free diet: macarons are gluten free! There are few ingredients in macarons - the shells are made out of almond flour, sugar, egg whites and cream of tartar. The filling varies, of course, but is usually a ganache or buttercream or curd - gluten free.
So when I was at Trader Joe's yesterday, I saw this rainbow box of macarons in the freezer section and had to try it.
There are six flavors in here, and I'll run them down now:
- fig: eh, it's okay. The filling is more like a fruit gel, and reminds me of a Fig Newton ;)
- lemon: yum. My favorite of the batch. The filling is also a fruit gel but good lemon flavor.
- apricot: okay. Not much apricot flavor in the shells but very present in the filling (also fruit gel).
- coconut: good. Coconut flavor is present in the shells and the filling, which is a white chocolate concoction (based on the ingredients).
- pistachio: horrible! I usually love pistachio pastries, and this was awful. The shells were bad, but the filling tasted like vomit to me. It was so terrible. Ugh.
- salted caramel: okay. The filling was a decent salted caramel, and the shells had a light caramel taste to them.
Overall, it's a hard one for me to rate - I think I have to lean towards not recommending, because I only really liked the lemon, I detested the pistachio, and the others were only okay. For $4.99 for the box of 12 - each macaron was about 1 1/2" in diameter - it's a great price, but overall it was a let down. I am glad there were no coffee flavored macs in here - seems like they always throw that flavor in an assortment! ;)
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