Macarons are delicious and fun. Gluten-free and available in every flavour and rainbow colour imaginable, these light and lovely French dessert cookies can be found at these Calgary bakeries. Be warned: they are sweetly addictive.
Delicate sandwich cookies made with almond-meringue biscuits and filled with ganache, buttercream or jam, Ollia maracon flavours include salted caramel, lavender honey and raspberry white chocolate cheesecake. They also happen to be 100 per cent gluten free.
While Manuel Latruwe makes classic sweet macaron flavours such as chocolate, lemon, coffee and pistachio, it also produces savoury macarons. These include maple bacon, fois gras with onion chutney, boursin salmon and olive tapenade.
Yann Haute specializes in macarons. Twelve flavours are available each day on a rotating basis. For celebrations, Yann Haute also offers macaron cakes and towers.
Monplaisir’s French Macarons come in 21 standard flavours and eight seasonal flavours and are gluten- and animal-gelatin free. Purchase them direct from the bakery or have them delivered right to your door across Canada.
Located in Mission, La Boulangerie is a bakery, coffee and pastry shop serving croissants, baguettes, crepes and European pastries as well as lattes, cappuccinos the like. Among the flaky desserts served, you'll find a changing assortment of macarons.