Two Tone MacCakes - Or what to do with yummy leftovers

MacCakes - no this isn't something you get at the golden arches. It's what I'm calling my cupcakes topped with macarons that were a result of some yummy leftovers this week.

Oh and check out the two tone topping.

Totally swirlalicious.

I've had it in my head to make some macCakes for a while and then I spied something very similar to these on one of Butter Hearts Sugar post. The pink two tone twirl on that site was so sweet.

So I was a bit inspired when I ended up with the following leftovers last week:
Chocolate butter cake cupcakes,
Vanilla Italian Meringue Buttercream,
Chocolate Buttercream
Strawberry and white chocolate macarons and
Vanilla Bean white chocolate macarons

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My two tone macCakes were just meant to be.

and you know when your serving leftovers you have to jazz it up a bit so I added some gorgeous cupcake wrappers from The Cupcake Wrapper Co to pull the look together.

and just because I had some green cupcake wrappers as well I did these ones with the flowers as well.

Oh these made me so happy, I loved the chocolate buttercream with the macarons. I had even more macarons left and ended up piping a little star of the two tone buttercream on the top of all of them. No pictures of these as I ate them way too fast.


There are a couple of ways to do a two tone frosting, you can just pop the 2 different frostings into the one piping bag and hope for the best, or you can do what I did and pop each frosting into a separate bag, then pop those 2 bags into another bag with a tip. Usually ends up more even and with less smudging.

Ooops filled those bags a little too much, remember to under fill them a little as they will be getting squished in with another bag.

I piped onto the counter until I had the swirl coming through evenly and then it was easy peasy.

Yummmm!!!!!