BATON ROUGE — While Sunday is National Macaroon Day, WBRZ spoke with bakers from Les Amis Bake Shoppe in Baton Rouge to discuss a completely different dessert with a nearly identical name, macarons.
Customers have the ability to customize their dessert orders, with the bakery offering several unique flavors like fruity pebbles, lavender and chocolate orange alongside traditional flavors like strawberry and vanilla bean.
“With the process of making macarons, it’s very precise, so there’s not a lot of creativity when making the batter,” said Jai Calhoun, the main macaron baker at Les Amis. “But then, when it comes to the colors, it really opens the door to have the filling and the flavor be whatever you can possibly imagine and whatever pairs well together…