Marzipan
10 minutes
Use this simple recipe for homemade marzipan or almond paste for the Fruit Cake recipe on this website or to decorate another favourite cake.
Lynn Lewis and Joachim Wahnschaffe
11 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 4 1/2 cups (455g) ground almonds
- 1 1/2 cups (185g) icing sugar, sifted
- 1 1/2 cups (345g) caster sugar
- 8 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon almond essence or vanilla essence
Directions
Preparation:10min ›
Ready in:10min
- Mix the ground almonds with the sifted icing sugar and the caster sugar. Add egg yolks and the almond or vanilla essence and mix to form a soft, but not sticky, paste. Smooth by kneading very briefly on a work surface lightly sifted with icing sugar.
