Sea Otter Valentine's Day Mugs with Latte Art (a marshmallow-macaron creation)

 Did you see Starbuck's Vday sea otter mug collection this year? They were so adorable I was inspired to create my own version of it out of macarons and marshmallows! 

A closer look at the coffee vanilla marshmallow sea otters! I used decaf coffee throughout so it's still kid-friendly.

A clearer view of the latte art made out of coffee white chocolate and vanilla white chocolate pudding, both of which are dairy-free.

Here's a cross section view where you can see that the insides of the mug is coated with white chocolate and there's dark chocolate ganache with toasted chopped pecans right at the base. I made the dark chocolate ganache dairy-free too.

Even the macaron mugs are flavoured as it's my baking principle to make my creations taste good as well. The macaron shells were flavoured with freeze-dried raspberry powder. I used macaron batter to glue the handle pieces to the main body of the mug so no royal icing is used.

A look at the marshmallows before dusting.

You may find my video tutorials for the macaron mug and marshmallows here:

3D macaron mug with latte art:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFuiuOcp8up/?igsh=dTJoNzd0dTZqdWF1

Sea otter marshmallow piping tutorial:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFzsZQLy6e-/?igsh=aW9nNjYwYXR5cTBr

Read the captions of the reels for more technical tips and the recipe for dairy-free coffee white chocolate pudding.

with love,

Phay Shing