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| Oh my, the things you can do with Marzipan!!!!! | |
| Country Woman Magazine contacted me about doing
an article for the fall/winter issue 2001 of their magazine using Marzipan
as the medium. Having used Marzipan in the past I thought it would give
me a chance to play with this dough as a medium. A time to just see how
many things can be done - and how many techniques can be used with
this dough.
I found it to be a very workable medium and it can be combined with fondant or gumpaste for a tastier sugar medium. Here is the recipe I found to be very tasty and easy to make. Marzipan 1 Cup almond paste Combine the first three ingredients and begin working in the powdered sugar. As it becomes to thick to stir begin kneading in the rest of the sugar until you have a workable dough. I find this dough to be a little strong on almond flavor. Mixing it with fondant made the dough whiter and also the flavor was much more to my liking. You can mold this dough using the silicone molds or candy molds.
Just chill the item before trying to remove it from the mold. i.e. houses
and nuts, The house molds and part of the nut molds were purchased from
International Sugar Art Company. |
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These leaves are in the natural color of the marzipan. They have been cut out, veined and dried over crunched foil. After the leaves were dry they were dusted with edible dusting powders. |
 The basket rings and staves are also marzipan |
 Marzipan
leaves and molded nuts decorate this fall sheet cake |
 Fall pumpkins, molded nuts and chocolate dipped apricots make this a tasty treat plate |
 These darling little bears and apples
are hand molded from the marzipan. The basket and small tree stump are
molded around marshmallows. For size comparison you can see thetoasted
coconut covered marshmallow on the back right end. |
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Top left - The Poinsettia, pine needles, holly, berries and bow are all made from marzipan. Top right - a pretty fruit platter of marzipan fruit, nuts and star cut outs dipped in chocolate. Left - Black sillouette cut outs, stars and letters are all cut outs of marzipan. The stars and cut outs are then brushed lightly with piping gel and edible glitter. |
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 Above is the parts and pieces of this Merry Christmas cake that were molded and formed from marzipan and then allowed to dry. |
 They were then accented with royal icing and powdered sugar to suggest the winter snow scene. |
 Just a few fun little items that are easy to make with the marzipan. The potatoes are simply formed by hand, use a toothpick to make a few eye holes and roll them in cocoa. |
 What a fun
little treat for a Thanksgiving or Christmas luncheon. Tiny apples and
the basketweave sides are done from a mold by Sugar Bouquets. |
 80 years old and his one hobby had been his garden. Therefore the marzipan vegetables seemed to be the most appropriate decoration for his cake. |
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