Macaron tower for a circus themed first birthday

Some of you will remember the last time I made a macaron tower was for a baby shower...well, said baby is now a year old so it was time to get the macaron tower out again!

This macaron tower didn't have a flavour theme like last time (lolly bag) but rather a colour theme to match with the circus theme of the party.

They're basically as colourful as I could make them, with one layer of "swirly" red and white macarons which I'll show you separately. The flavours were varying (and nothing I haven't already posted about on this blog) - redskin, snickers, strawberry, Turkish delight and passionfruit.

Now about those swirly macarons... I've never attempted this before but essentially I coloured half the batter red and placed two piping bags into one large one with the nozzle. 

It didn't go completely to plan with some of the red leaking out before I started piping but after a few squirts they were coming out like this:

I can't finish this post without showing you the amazing circus cake that my sister made (chocolate mud all the way through):