While I was deep in emoji Easter egg making land, I stopped by Bottega Louie and there was a whole CASE of yellow macarons just staring at me all “WE SHOULD BE EMOJIS TOO!” So, I obliged. And since we are all still in deep protest of the fact that there is STILL NO TACO EMOJI, I decided we should at least celebrate that all the classics stuck around… So let’s do just that.
Yellow Macarons (These were lemon and delicious!)
Food Decorator Pens
Frosting or Royal Icing (Optional, for certain emojis!)
To make the basic faces, all you need is your trusty black food pen from the set. For the hearts, the red pen also shows up quite well on the yellow. Just draw your shapes and fill in as necessary. Here’s the scoop about the rest:
For the white eyes: I actually sacraficed a macaron (RIP) and used the filling and a clean, food-safe paintbrush to “paint” white eyeballs onto a few of them. Then I used the black paint pen to make the center of the eye.
For the blue tears + pink tongue: If you aren’t crazy picky like me, go ahead and use the food pens. They show up, but the colors are slightly altered because of the yellow backdrop. If you are crazy like me, you can use a bit of royal icing to “paint” the features on and then, once it sets, color over top with your food pens.
If you’re curious as to the order in which I drew the features on these guys, I used the same process outlined here for the emoji eggs.
Photos by Studio DIY
I typically leave the macaron magic making to my pal Ashley, but I couldn’t resist hopping on the mac train for these guys. Now be sure to eat them whilst holding a bunch of emoji balloons, ok?
Lauren says
Tacos and flamingos, that’s really all I’m asking for, Emoji Gods!
My friend/baking extraordinaire Hayley and I made gigantic 3-D Emoji sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day this year, they were a ton of fun to make + decorate! http://bit.ly/emojicookies
Naomi says
AHHHHHHHHH YES!!!! I LOVE things that look like other things!! This is so adorable!!! I’m filing this away in my memories to make this for later!!! How adorableee are theseeeeee 😀 your DIY’s take the cake! Or should I say macaroon?! 😉
xoxoxox, Naomi | http://bunnyandfawn.blogspot.com/
gina says
Love these! Would be super cute for teacher appreciation week – just need a clever saying to go with them…. thoughts?
Stephanie R says
Oh my gosh, I love this so much!
brittni says
These are amazing Kel! I absolutely love ’em.
lizzy newman says
oh my god these are amazing!! what a brilliant idea! i feel like i HAVE to make these…
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Baby Wear Online says
These are great but maybe edible marker would be better?
Diana says
Omg these are amazing. Especially the shocked eyes emoji.
xo
Diana
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Aster & Oak says
haha great job, my son would love these as they look lik eminions!
Organic Baby says
great idea! love it
Vanessa @ VanessaBaked says
These are so cute! What a fun idea!
laptitecerise says
OMG, that’s just perfect for my little sister’s birthday party! Thanks for this inspiration and… Congrats!
Claudia says
They are so cute
Where did you get the macaroons from and what did you use to do the faces
NIOVI Organics says
These are so lovely and cute…Would be a win with both adults and kids alike.
Shan-marie Daley says
how do you make the macarons?