While they certainly looked good enough to eat, and there are plenty of recipes and options to buy already scattered like crumbs across the internet, Jon Favreau was quite clear that the visuallook of the infamous blue space macarons was more important to the show that the taste of them.
Asked about the inspiration behind the special blue cookie, Favreau said, “We wanted it to be blue because it was like blue milk. The prop master ended up baking macarons for us, but not the full macaron, not the sandwich, just one half of the sandwich.
As for the flavor of the blue macarons, Favreau revealed they didn’t have much taste other than a bit of raspberry. “When you’re on a film set you’re not so worried about the taste,” Favreau said. “It’s about the look.”
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