Macarons ~strawberry & pistachio

Now that I'm back on track with macarons, I'm moving on to making strawberry and pistachio macaron requests. Naturally, the macarons will be pink and green :).

Since I’m not big on buttercream, I made white chocolate ganache for both flavors. For strawberry, I used strawberry preserve. It added flavor as well as pale pink tint. I left the color at that instead of adding food coloring. I think it’s nice like that.

For pistachio cream, I made pistachio paste by grinding the nuts. Pistachio is mild in nature. But in ganache, I could taste the flavor that was intensified by the paste :).

 

Putting it all together...