Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.When coronavirus hit, Rachel Hanretty was devastated to shut the doors on her bakery, Mademoiselle Macaron.Rachel fell in love with macarons when she lived in Paris and enrolled at the Alain Ducasse cookery school to learn how to make the melt-in-the-mouth delights.
Returning to Edinburgh, she opened her own bakery and launched an online store in 2015. Orders flooded in, with caterers and wedding customers snapping up macarons.But as lockdown was announced, the firm, which employs eight people, lost all their wholesale customers overnight. “It was really scary,” says Rachel.