This delicate, sophisticated and gourmandise treat, has its origins in Italy and popularised later on by French Patisseries to what we know nowadays as macarons.
Macarons are elegant little cookies, made with meringue, sugar and almond flour. Crunchy on the outside and soft inside, these beautiful cookies sandwich a variety of fillings.
It is known that the “maccherone” were created in Italy during the Middle Ages. At the time they held no filling. It was when Catherine de’ Medici brought them to France in the 1500s from Italy, where they were called “priests’ bellybuttons”, and were made in Venetian monasteries since the 8th century.
The macaron as we know it nowadays was perfectionated in Paris, where they appeared with the two shell cookies with a variety of fine fillings.
In the 1862, the very famous pâtisserie Ladurée from Paris, popularised these luxurious and decadent cookies.
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