The hubby and I were off to spend a few days with friends and as the hubby was taking some of his home made beef and pork jerky for P (the boys love their jerky), I thought I would take something sweet for B seeing as how sugar is our weakness.  Given it has been a while since I last made macarons I thought it was a good time to whip up one of the varieties that I had on my macaron Pinterest board for a while now.

Steph from Raspberri Cupcakes, a blog I have been following for years now and was the inspiration for the Checker Board and Honeycomb Cake as well as the Snowmen Macarons on my White Christmas Cake, has used a fruit tingle icing for an orange cake and then also used it to top some passionfruit cupcakes, with the leftovers being used for some macarons.  I fell in love with them as soon as I saw them and knew that the upcoming trip would be the perfect opportunity to make some fruit tingle macarons of my own.

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