Macarons Please

Well, I wanted to do this right after trying these macarons, however I have been ill the past three days, and have probably slept enough for the following three or four days. Here it is Saturday night, when I'm writing this, and Chris and I tried these macaroons on Wednesday.

I love macarons, everything about them. They are colorful, playful, delicious, airy, but with a crunch. It really seems like they have been blowing up lately, but why wouldn't they be blowing up? They are just beautiful. I have made them a few times at school, but I have never actually bought these beauties made by someone else. Sooooo when Chris and I were checking out the raceway freehold mall, we stumbled upon a little cart with all these gorgeous colors, and I said to him "mmm, I just love macaroons," and he said let's get some. We checked out the cart and the prices, mind you, I already knew they would be pricey.

    - Side note- If you have ever homemade macarons, you understand the precious time that goes into making these finicky little cookies, as Chris called them "Delicate Angel tears" lol <--- What an accurate comparison.


So this magical little place I'm talking about is http://www.bywoops.com/ .

 

 

This is a macaron company based out of Brooklyn, NY. You can order these online if you would like, however if I were going to order these online I highly would recommend doing one day delivery, and keep in mind depending upon your location this can be more pricey then the macarons themselves.

 

 

 

So now, how much are they, you may be asking? Well they are $2.50 for 1, $16 for 6, $32 for 12, or $93 for 36. I believe online you can only buy a set. We did the 6 for $16. Now if you are wondering why so much money?! Well the time and effort into making macarons is the reason behind this, as well as the main ingredient is almond flour, which is quite pricey.

 

 

 

 

So we decided on these six flavors: (from left to right as seen below) Caramel, Vanilla, Red Velvet, Nutella, Peanut Butter, and cookies and cream.

They also had a vide variety to choose from to include coffee, green tea, and a ton of berry and fruit flavors, however, my husband doesn't like fruit flavors, and we wanted to try them all together. All flavors can be viewed on their website. Another neat feature on their website is, if you don't know what kind you want, there is a randomize button, so you can be surprised with your flavors.

 

So How were they? Were they worth the price?

 

My favorites in order: Cookies & Cream, Peanut Butter, Nutella, Caramel, Vanilla, Red Velvet.

 

The cookies and cream was perfect, chololately goodness with the reminder of an oreo or oreo cream. It was delicious. My second favorite was the peanut butter, keep in mind, I have hated peanut butter my whole life June of 2013. Let me briefly explain. My husband was deployed, I was eating healthy, so nothing sweet was in the house, I was craving something sweet, and a prepackage of betty Crocker ( Bitch knows what she's doing in the kitchen) cookie mix was in the pantry from before he left. Chris loves peanut butter cookies. I decided to give them a shot, and oh man my taste buds were blown to bits. Sooooo amazing, peanut butter! I had been missing out forever! Needless to say I ate a huge jar of peanut butter alone in a week. No shame. Don't worry I ran my six mile a day run for two weeks straight afterwards.

 

 

 

Ohhhhh yeah back to the macarons! So the peanut butter was perfect the saltiness of the peanut butter filling balanced out the sweetness of the actual cookie. The nutella macaron was quite similar to the peanut butter, only with the hazelnut flavor. The nutella macaron may actually have been softer than the peanut butter. The caramel was the first one we had tried, it was perfectly airy with just the right amount of crisp. The filling tasted like a fresh homemade caramel, and boy do I love a fresh made caramel or chocolate sauce. How disappointing is it to have a nice cheesecake at a restaurant and when they top it with caramel or chocolate sauce you can taste that very notable Hershey's taste?

 

Well anyway the caramel tasted genuine, and supreme. Actually the more I'm thinking on it, the caramel may come after peanut butter as my favorite. It was divine.

 

 

I was slightly and mildly disappointed with the vanilla and red velvet.  The vanilla was overly sweet, it just tasted like sugar, Now I know vanilla is a mild flavor, but I can usually pinpoint when vanilla bean or vanilla paste is used over an extract, and I couldn't feel that out here. The red velvet, I hate to say it, it tasted just like the vanilla. Nothing special. But red velvet is suppose to be more chocolately then vanilla. But really it tasted as if they just colored the vanilla red. I was disappointed with two of them, but in all honestly I would buy them again. I would try other flavors, and I would get 4 of 6 again. Although, I know these would be much better and satisfying homemeade, I was happy to finally try them made from somewhere, it is convenient having them already made, and I enjoyed the beautiful packaging.