Costco Tipiak French Macarons – fall and winter 2021 flavors!
Today I’m reviewing the Costco Tipiak French Macarons. These are the fall and winter 2021 flavors available at Costco currently. The french macarons from Costco are gluten-free and are a unique little cookie to serve to guests!
Check out my previous reviews for different flavors of these macarons: there’s the spring version that I did a video review for, this older spring pack from 2019 and my first review for them from back in 2018. They’re always changing the flavors a bit, which is fun. I picked up this box of new winter flavors last time I was at Costco and I’m reviewing it today!
Location in Store
You can find the macarons in the refrigerated deli section, near the other refrigerated desserts. The item number is 1167009.
Taste
There are six different flavors in the box, crème brulee, dulce de leche, pistachio, red velvet, chocolate and mandarin and chocolate.
Creme brulee – Sweet with a nice, mild vanilla flavor.
Dulce de leche – Quite sweet with a mild caramel flavor. The caramel filling makes them extra chewy.
Pistachio – Sweet with a pleasant, mild pistachio flavor.
Red velvet – Mild red velvet flavor, but the cream cheese flavor of the filling is great and really stands out.
Chocolate and mandarin – Sweet orange cookie with rich chocolate filling. I found this one a bit disappointing. The orange cookie was a little too sweet and artificial tasting.
Chocolate – Mild chocolate flavor from the cookie parts with a richer chocolate filling (though it seems to be a lighter chocolate filling than the chocolate orange).
Honestly, I don’t dislike any of the flavors. The Costco Tipiak French Macarons are little delicate, light, beautiful, flavor-packed delightful cookies. They’re crunchy, chewy and soft all at the same time. The almond flour gives them a slight hint of nuttiness as well.
Cost
The box of 36 macarons at Costco is $18.99 Canadian. However, you can sometimes find them on sale for as much as five dollars off! This is really reasonable for macarons. The local bakeries sell macarons individually for three dollars each!
Convenience
The best before date is about three weeks from the date I purchased the macarons. They also need to be kept refrigerated. These are perfect to have as a treat at home or to serve at your next party or get-together.
I have frozen these macarons before and notice they become a bit dry and crack easier when frozen so I highly suggest eating them up while they’re fresh!
Nutrition
Calories
The nutrition information varies slightly depending on the flavor but generally, you’re looking at about 150-160 calories, four to eight grams of fat and 16 to 20 grams of sugar for three macarons.
Secondly, macarons are very light and not very filling, they’re basically sugar, almond flour and egg whites with flavoring. These aren’t extremely high in calories or fat considering the nutrition information is for three macarons. They do have a good amount of sugar.
Ingredients
Macarons are great for people following a gluten-free diet because they don’t contain wheat but the Tipiak Macarons from Costco “may contain” wheat. My guess is they’re made in a facility that also packages wheat products so they have to put that.
Scoring
Taste: 8/10
Cost: 9/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 0/10
Overall
Give it a try!
My favorite macaron flavors in this box ranked: red velvet, creme brulee, dulce de leche, chocolate, pistachio, chocolate mandarin.
Have you tried these? What did you think of them?
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I’ve eaten both (Trader Joe’s & Costco). Trader Joe’s does have good ones; however, it is only the chocolate flavor ones…the colored other flavors taste bland. Costco ones are usually a hit at my party- not over-the-top like the Parisian ones…but we’re not in Paris, so there’s that. 🙂
These are sadly the worst macaron I’ve had. The 2023 flavors include peppermint, which makes all of the other flavors have a mint taste. Other than that, the other flavors have no taste whatsoever. The consistently of the cookie is even a little strange for a macaron, as if there is too much almond flour and not enough meringue. I don’t recommend these. This is sad since Costco usually carries high quality items. Aldi has fantastic macarons for much, much less expensive.
I bought these macarons on Saturday and left on counter (out of the sun) until Wedneday
I just put them in the fridge. Are they safe to eat?
Hey Julie, I did that once. I personally still ate them but I can’t speak about how safe they are to eat or not in case you get sick.
Trader Joes has good ones
I have searched for macarons on Costco.ca but can’t seem to find them. My wife loves them & I went to an Italian bakery & they charged me $16.50 for 6 of them. I don’t eat stuff like that since I have worked very head to lose most of the fat bit the Mrs on the other hand does not give a you know what but always complains that she needs to lose weight. Yeah right!
Trader Joes has good ones
I have had these amazing little treats that were handmade and absolutely delicious, this store bought snack was unremarkable at best, I found them to be bland and not much difference in each flavour and the texture not even close to what I’ve had previously and the price point a bit expensive but had they been but had they been tasty it would have been worth it considering I ate 3 and threw the rest of the garbage not a bargain at all. Next time I’ll try to make my own, even if they are a flop they would be better than Tipiak.
Thank you so much for your website! I saw these macarons on sale at Costco last week but didn’t pick them up because I was gifted some bad pre-packaged macarons once, and the memory has stayed with me. After reading your review, I decided to add these to my cart, and I’m glad I did! The texture is as good as any bakery macarons I’ve ever had. I have only tried the Dulce de Leche and Crème Brulee ones, so I can’t comment on the other flavours, but the two I tried were tasty. I paid 13.99 for the box of 36, and if they are still on sale next week, I will pick up another one.
The creme brulee ones are pretty great but the rest are whatever
Are these always available at Costco?