Bonjour Paris.

A macaron is a sweet confectionery made with egg whites, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond powder or ground almond, and food coloring. The macaron is commonly filled with butter cream or jam filling sandwiched between two cookies. Its name is derived from an Italian word "maccarone" or "maccherone". This word is itself derived from ammaccare, meaning crush or beat, used here in reference to the almond paste which is the principal ingredient. It is meringue-based: made from a mixture of egg whites, almond flour, and both granulated and confectionery sugar.

Ice cream or mashed potato?

Food Fact: These are mashed potatoes. Anytime you see an ice cream ad on tv (scooped or being scooped all slow and creamy style) it is 90% of the time coloured mashed potatoes because they look like ice cream but won’t melt like it under the camera lighting.