Blueberry Macarons with jam filling

Yes, I already have a Blueberry Macaron recipe on my blog. But today I present to you its sibling: Blueberry Macarons with jam filling.

Blueberry Macarons

You see, my first recipe for Blueberry Macarons had a mascarpone filling. It actually involved a blueberry jam mixed into the mascarpone and powdered sugar, and that’s a huge favorite til this day. I just had someone on Instagram a couple hours ago make it and tag me in it.

By the way, if you make any of my macaron recipes, I would love to see it on instagram. Just tag me! It makes me so happy to see what you are all creating and how your macaron journey is evolving.

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Anyway, yes, my previous Blueberry Macarons recipe was great and fantastic. But I really really love macarons with jam filling. So I needed to create another recipe.

Plus, I was dying to use my airbrush pen. And purple seemed like the perfect color to do so.

Blueberry Macarons

Yes, the beautiful effect on the shells is an airbrush pen.

I use this kit by Cake Boss. I’ve used it only a couple of other times.

But I really love it, and I am looking for other ways to use it. I used it on my Pumpkin Macarons I made last fall.

Blueberry Macarons

How freaking gorgeous is that effect though!! I am in love.

Anyway, I am just loving all blueberry flavors at the moment (wait for some more blueberry recipes coming your way).

Blueberry Macarons

My macbook broke last week, and I went almost a whole week without a computer, which may not seem like much, but is a lot for a food blogger who is eager to edit pictures and post recipes on her blog.

Thankfully I was able to get a new computer and now I am back to work, editing all the pictures I’ve taken those lonely days without my macbook, and now I am writing the recipes to publish here, which takes a bit of time, but again, doesn’t feel like work when you love what you do, does it?

Blueberry Macarons

And that’s the reality, people. I absolutely love being a food blogger. And I am so thankful that so many of you love making my recipes. Specially my macarons, which became super popular.

Every time I get a message from someone saying they finally mastered macarons, I get super happy and accomplished, because I try my best to explain my method in detail.

Which is why I am writing a macaron eBook, which you probably know if you read my macaron posts, because I’ve been talking about it on my last macaron posts.

Blueberry Macarons

I have a tone of Macaron posts for you to check out, by the way.

Click HERE to check out some more macaron recipes and ideas.

I am totally devoted to helping people figure out how to master this special little cookie. It is a special cookie, because it takes a whole lot of love to master it. Love for baking, love for sharing, love for eating it also.

Blueberry Macarons

On my Macaron posts on my blog, you can find tones of tips on how to make macarons, store them, types of flour to use, and more.

Check it out for yourself.

And since these tips are kind of all spread all over my many macaron recipe posts, I am working very hard on getting this eBook out soon, so all tips are compiled in the same place. This way, my Macaron eBook can be a source for you to refer to anytime you are making macarons, or even when you encounter an issue with a macaron batch.

Blueberry Macarons

Check out some of my favorite macaron recipes:

And, of course, don’t forget to check out my first Blueberry Macarons recipe.

Blueberry Macarons

If you are new to making macarons and can’t wait for my Macaron eBook to come out, check out my Matcha Macarons post, where I go over some main tips and techniques.  On my Raspberry Macarons post, I talk about Almond Flour, brands, sifting methods, etc. On my Espresso Macarons post, I answer common questions about making macarons. On my Lemon Macarons post, I talk about macaron shelf life and storage. Check them out! I have tones of other tips all throughout my many macaron recipes. And also, there are tones of other resources online that can help you.

Blueberry Macarons

Blueberry Macarons

Thank you so much for coming to my blog, checking out my recipes, I really appreciate all the support from this amazing tribe of macaron bakers out there!

Blueberry Macarons

Check down below some of the materials I use to make my macarons, that make the process a bit smoother.

Thank you again for coming by. Have a great one!

Blueberry Macarons
Blueberry Macarons

Blueberry Macarons

Camila Hurst
Blueberry Macarons filled with blueberry jam. I used an air brush pen to obtain the beautiful effect on the shells.
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine French, Gluten-Free
Servings 26 macarons
Calories 110 kcal

Ingredients
  

Macaron Shells
  • 100 grams egg whites (3.5 oz)
  • 100 grams  white granulated sugar (3.5 oz)
  • 105 grams  almond flour (3.7 oz)
  • 105 grams powdered sugar (3.7 oz)
  • Food coloring I used a couple of drops of purple
Blueberry Jam
  • 2 cups blueberries fresh or frozen 283 grams 10 oz
  • tbsp maple syrup you can use granulated sugar or other sweetener instead
  • tbsp lemon juice
  • tbsp cornstarch
  • tbsp cold water
Vanilla Buttercream
  • 1 cup confectioners’ sugar sifted (125 grams, 4.4 oz)
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter softened (56 grams, 2 oz)
  • 1/2 tsp  vanilla extract

Instructions
 

Macaron Shells
  • Before you start, get all of the ingredients ready. Prepare a large piping bag, fitted with a large round tip.
  • Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mat.
  • I use a baking mat with the macaron template already in it.
  • Measure out all of the ingredients.
  • Sift the powdered sugar and almond flour together. Set aside.
  • Place the egg whites and granulated sugar in a heat proof bowl or in a double boiler. Over a pan of simmering water, whisk the whites and sugar until frothy and sugar completely melted. It will take a couple minutes. You can test by touching the mixture between your fingers, and if you feel any sugar granules just keep whisking mixture over the water bath.
  • Make sure the bottom of the bowl isn’t touching the simmering water.
  • Transfer mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer.
  • With the whisk attachment, whisk the mixture on low speed and gradually increase the speed to medium, or medium-high, and continue to whip until the meringue achieves stiff peaks.
  • Once the egg whites get glossy and you start seeing streaks formed by the whisk, it might be time to stop.
  • Whisk until stiff peaks have formed. When you pull your whip up, the peak should be stiff and shooting straight up, with possibly a slight bend at the top, but not bending to the side.
  • Pour the sifted powdered sugar and almond flour into stiff whites.
  • Start folding gently forming a letter J with a spatula. Add the food coloring at this point, if using.
  • It’s time to stop folding when the batter is glossy and has a thick and flowing consistency. There are several ways to test this.
  • First, pick up some batter with the spatula and try to draw a figure 8 with the batter that is dripping off the spatula. If you can form several 8 figures without the batter breaking up, that’s one indication that it might be ready.
  • There’s another test you can do. I call it the Teaspoon test.
  • Grab a teaspoon of batter and spoon onto the parchment paper or silicon mat. Wait a minute to see how it behaves.
  • If the batter stays stiff, forming a point and doesn’t spread out, fold a little bit more, about 3 folds.
  • Test again.
  • Once the batter spreads out a bit and starts to look glossy and smooth on top, on the parchment paper it means the batter is probably ready.
  • You don’t want your batter to be too runny either. So be careful not to overmix. It’s always best to undermix and test several times until the proper consistency has been achieved.
  • Transfer the batter to a piping bag.
  • Place the piping bag directly 90 degrees over the center of each macaron template. Apply gentle pressure and carefully pipe for about 3 seconds, and then quickly pull the bag up twisting slightly.
  • Once you’ve piped as many circles as you could, bang the trays against the counter a few times each. This will release air bubbles that are in the batter and prevent the macaron shells from cracking.
  • Let the trays sit for a while so the shells will dry out a little bit. I usually leave about 20-40 minutes, depending on how humid the day is. You’ll know they’re ready when you gently touch the surface of a macaron and it seems dry, and doesn't stick to your finger.
  • Pre-heat the oven to 300°F.
  • Bake one tray at a time.
  • Bake for 5 minutes, rotate the tray.
  • Bake for 5 more minutes, check if it needs to be rotated again. You will know if it needs to be rotated again depending on how the macarons are baking. Take a look at them, if one side seems taller than the other, maybe you have to rotate the tray again.
  • Bake each tray for a total of about 15 to 20 minutes.
  • When baked, the macarons will have a deeper color and formed feet. If you try to move a macaron, it shouldn’t feel jiggly. If the macaron is still jiggly, keep baking.
  • Remove from the oven and bake the other tray.
  • Let the macarons cool down before proceeding with the filling.
Blueberry Jam
  • Mix the blueberries, maple syrup (or sweetener) and lemon juice in a small pot. Bring to a boil over medium heat, cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes. Use the spoon to break up the blueberries as you stir.
  • Mix cornstarch and cold water in a small bowl.
  • Once blueberries have boiled and reduced a bit, add cornstarch and water to the pan.
  • Bring back to a boil, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened.
  • Let jam cool. Cover it with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge.
  • You may process the jam in a small food processor to make it smooth if you want to, or strain it. I like my blueberry jam to be a bit chunky, so I usually leave it as is, though sometimes I do process it on my blender cup to make it smooth.
Vanilla Buttercream
  • Sift the powdered sugar. Set aside.
  • Cream the butter at medium speed in the bowl of an electric mixer for about 1 minute. With the mixer off, add all of the powdered sugar in.
  • On low speed, beat the sugar and butter together. Once they are incorporated, turn speed to medium and cream for 1-2 minutes until very fluffy. Add vanilla extract and beat for another 30-45 seconds.
  • If buttercream is too stiff, add a bit of milk or water to make it a bit softer. And if buttercream is too runny, add a bit more sifted powdered sugar.
How to assemble
  • Pipe a circle of buttercream around the edges of the macaron, in a way that you have a little hole in the middle. Fill the little hole with a bit of blueberry jam. Don’t overfill it. Place another shell on top.
Storage
  • These Blueberry Macarons will be at their best up to 4-7 days in the fridge.
  • I don’t recommend freezing macarons with jam fillings, since they will often turn soggy because of the jam.

Notes

Jam: If you don’t want to make your own jam, that’s ok. You can use store-bought. You will need about 1/4 cup of jam. If you have leftover jam, keep it in the refrigerator and use it within 1-2 weeks. Spread it on some toast, or my favorite way is to add to a yogurt bowl, with some fresh fruit (and granola sometimes).
Food coloring: Make sure to use gel food coloring. I use Wilton Color Right Performance Food Coloring Set. If you are a beginner macaron baker, I recommend going easy on the food coloring, as it can alter your batter a lot, and it can take extra mixing time, specially if you continue to add the food coloring as you do the macaronage.
Scale: Please use a scale when measuring the ingredients for accuracy.
Macaron amount: it will vary greatly depending on how big you pipe the shells, and on how runny or thick the batter is.
Baking time/temperature: Baking time and temperature will vary according to your own oven. I recommend experimenting with your oven to find out the best time, temperature, position of the baking tray.
Oven thermometer: Make sure to have an oven thermometer to bake macarons. It’s one of the most important things about making macarons. Home ovens aren’t accurate at all at telling the temperature, and even a slight 5 degree difference can make or break your whole batch.
Tray rotation: Lots of bakers don’t have to rotate the trays 180 degrees in the oven every 5 minutes, but I do have to with my oven, or I will get lopsided macarons. Please adjust this according to your oven.
Keyword blueberry, macarons

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22 Comments

  1. Hi! I love your macaron posts! I haven’t started making these yet but am doing my research and getting excited. I do have a quick question: if I wanted to flavor the shells (batter) what do you recommend for that? Like your raspberry macaron recipe, would I be able to add a couple teaspoons of raspberry extract into the batter or would that make it too wet? Just trying to figure out how to flavor the shells too. Thanks for your help!

    1. Hello, so it’s really not recommended to flavor shells unless you are using something like cocoa powder, espresso powder, or matcha powder. Extracts, and other flavorings and spices are usually not recommended because the shells are very delicate, and even a drop of water can mess up your entire batter, let alone acidic ingredients and flavors. The flavor will usually shine through in the filling of the macarons.
      Let me know if you have any more questions, Michelle.
      Best of luck in your baking journey!

  2. Hi! This recipe sounds delicious and I really want to try it for my next party! For the food coloring, do you recommend a certain kind? I’ve seen in other recipes that they say to only use gel coloring. Will using liquid have a big effect, or would it be alright? Thanks so much!

    1. Only gel food coloring! Liquid based food coloring can affect your batter. Because the egg whites contain hydrophobic amino acids and any water added to the mix can destroy those hydrophobic amino acids whose function is to protect the air bubbles that are so important in your meringue.

  3. Hi I know that you have the calories listed but I was wondering if you know the amount of carbs in this recipe? I want to make these for my fiancé but he has type 1 diabetes and needs to know the amount of carbs per serving. Thanks!

    1. Hello Kate, I used an online recipe carb calculator, and each macaron shell has 4 grams of carbs. For the filling, I’d recommend using a keto buttercream such as this one, and a sugar free blueberry jam recipe such as this one

  4. Is it required to use almond flour? Can regular flour be substituted and still achieve the same result?

  5. I just started making macarons this week and I’m loving it so far! I made these yesterday but they didn’t turn out as well as my other attempts. I really tried to get the macaronage to the right consistency but I feel like I had to fold it for quite a while to get to the figure 8 stage. I’m assuming because of this I over mixed it and ended up with cracked, hollow macarons with barely any feet. Any advice or tips?
    I made your peanut butter ones also and they turned out fantastic!

    1. sometimes, if you over whip the meringue, or if you heat the sugar/egg white mixture too much, the meringue might turn hard, and then when you fold it, it will feel too stiff.
      Or perhaps, it was just one of those batters that you have a hard time telling when to stop folding, which happens sometimes, due to several factors such as air humidity, consistency of the meringue, level of humidity on the almond flour etc etc… and then because it was harder to tell when to stop folding, you ended up over mixing. So that could be an issue. Over mixed macarons may cause those results you’ve described.
      Also, sometimes if you don’t rest the macarons enough, or if you add too much food coloring, those issues may also happen, or if the day was particularly humid.
      Hope this helps

      1. Thank you so much for getting back to me! I think it was a combination of using too much of the purple gel colouring and then overmixing. Going to try these again and tweak a few things to try work it out 🙂
        They still tasted delicious though!

  6. Hey Camila!
    Today I tried this recipe out and unfortunately It didn´t come out as I expected. The batter turned out way too thick even though I measured everything correctly, it was like there were too many dry ingredients for the amount of meringue. Any tips? I´d appreciate it. 😉

  7. Hello Camila!! I love all your macaron recipes! I’m a fan!
    I started making them like a month ago! Now I’m having soooo much trouble with my oven! I just can’t get the righty time and temperature 🙁 I have the oven termómetro! I tried baking them at 350 f for 18 mints but still under baked I don’t know how to find this right 🙁 my oven has a fab btw you think that can be affecting my final result ?

    1. oh, if you have a fan you should be turning the temperature down actually. I dont understand how they can be under baked at such a high temp on convection oven for 18 min. is there anyway you can send me pictures on my email or instagram dm? my email is [email protected]

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