Pâtisserie E. Ladurée, commonly known as Ladurée, is a French manufacturer and retailer of high-end pastries and candy, established in 1862. It is one of the world's best-known sellers of the double-decker macaron, 15,000 of which are sold every day. The company is a société par actions simplifiée and has its head office in Paris, France.
Celadon green façade at the Champs-Élysées flagship
The queue inside Ladurée's Champs-Élysées flagship
Pastries on display in the Champs-Élysées flagship
Ladurée in Siam Paragon, Thailand
A macaron
or French macaroon
is a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal, and often food colouring.
Parisian-style macarons (vanilla flavour)
Traditional macarons de Nancy
Picture from Dictionnaire encyclopédique de l'épicerie et des industries annexes, by Albert Seigneurie, edited by L'Épicier in 1904, page 431
Macaron preparation