Behold the ‘Macaronut’

A NEW Instagram-worthy dessert is on the horizon.

A NEW Instagram-worthy dessert is on the horizon.

To celebrate Macaron Day (!) on March 20, French pastry chef François Payard will whip up the “Macaronut,” a mashup of — you guessed it — macarons and doughnuts: a macaron-sized, doughnut-shaped cookie filled with strawberry cream and topped with multicoloured sprinkles.

Each little treat packs a mighty 450 calories.

While they’ll be available at the chef’s three eponymous patisseries in New York, more than 20 other city bakeries will be selling the bite-size desserts at $US5 ($6.74) a pop.

Payard, famed for his croissants, cakes and chocolates, created Macaron Day in 2010 to celebrate the iconic Parisian cookie. Half of the day’s sales will benefit City Harvest, a food-rescue non-profit.

It was just a matter of months before the cronut arrived on Australian shores after it was dreamt up in NYC. We wonder how long the Macronut will take?

Originally published as Behold the ‘Macaronut’