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Pink Macaron Crab Cakes

Celebrate a nautical party theme with these Pink Macaron Crab Cakes. It?s easy to dress up store-bought macarons using the Wilton Meringue recipe and candy eye balls to make these crab cakes.

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Step 1

Prepare meringue recipe. Add 10 drops of Crimson Color Right base color to match store-bought pink macaron cookies. Using tip 5, add meringue to decorating bag.

Step 2

Pipe meringue crab claws onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Start by piping a smaller curved bead shape. Next, pipe a larger curved bead shape directly to the top of it. Make sure they touch.

Step 3

Pipe a mirror image of your first claw, with two curved beads facing in the opposite direction.

Step 4

Bake meringues according to recipe.

Step 5

Prepare royal icing. Using tip 3, pipe two tall dots onto macaron cookie. Place candy eyes on top of icing dots so that the candy eyes sit upright.

Step 6

Once the meringues have completely cooled, carefully remove them from parchment. Attach the meringue claws to the macaron body with a small dab of royal icing.

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