Yesterday I bought a great big amount of marzipan. A whole kilo actually, and for absolutely no other reason than the excitement of it being on sale (32,50 kr.) since it’s usually crazy ass pricy. As soon as I came home I began finding delicious recipes containing marzipan.
As today was a rainy day anyway, I figured I would spend it on making something out of the marzipan. It took the whole day and made a LOT of mess (which is the reason I usually don’t hurl myself into big time cooking missions) but I think the result went pretty good!
I started out with making marzipan and white chocolate scones:
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| I must admit that I think the scones taste a little dull - but with a nice layer of butter, they are perfect as an (unhealthy) evening snack ;) |
Afterwards came the 'real' marzipan making. I decided on (easter) eggs and hearts. The egg form makes stuffing easy and hearts are always lovely.
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| This is pretty much what I started out with. |
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| For the crunchy easter eggs, I mixed almonds and heated sugar water. This also works as a snack in itself. Yum! |
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| Halfway through. Chocolate coating - the hardest part - is still missing. |
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| Pretty, isn't it? I had some trouble with the dark chocolate coating getting all hard and not very melty. Fixed it by mixing in a little milk and butter but it backfired on me as the chocolate wasn't dry when I moved the marzipan candies into the boxes. I made it through though! |
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| All done! What the different chocolates contain: Dark chocolate eggs - marzipan with nougat filling White chocolate eggs - marzipan with raspberry filling (this one got me really excited!) Dark hearts - raspberry marzipan White hearts - raspberry marzipan with nougat Dark eggs with dots/stripes - almond crunch marzipan |
PS. I never got to use the fruit colors. that really bummed me out, but then at least I have coloring for the next time!
