A delicious cake prepared for the holiday is a good gift. Decoration will help to make it themed. To do this, you can use marzipan, which is an elastic paste made from powdered sugar and grated almonds. From it, you can cut out flat decoration elements with molds or sculpt three-dimensional figures.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- - 175 g of sweet almonds;
- - 10 pieces of bitter almonds;
- - 2 tablespoons of cherry vodka;
- - 100 g of powdered sugar;
- - 1 egg white
- or
- - 1 cup almonds;
- - 1 cup of granulated sugar;
- - 2-3 drops of almond essence;
- - 0.25 glasses of water;
- - icing sugar;
- - food colorings.
Instruction manual
1
Prepare the marzipan mass. Take 175 g of sweet almonds and 10 pieces of bitter. Sprinkle nuts with hot water.
2
Remove the peel from the almonds and pass the kernels through a meat grinder with a frequent grill twice.
3
Add 100 g of powdered sugar and 1 egg white to the chopped almonds. Stir everything thoroughly.
4
Place the mixture in a mixer and beat until a homogeneous plastic mass is obtained. At the end of cooking, flavor the almond mass with cherry vodka. Marzipan is ready for modeling.
5
To prepare the marzipan mass according to the second recipe, put 1 cup of unpeeled almonds in boiling water and cook for 1-2 minutes. Throw nuts in a colander.
6
Dry the nuts lightly with a paper towel.
7
Peel the almonds after they cool.
8
Rinse the kernels in warm water and put in a pan.
9
Constantly stirring, fry the almonds in a hot pan, without adding oil, for 10-15 minutes.
10
Place the roasted nuts in a blender and chop until mashed.
eleven
Mix 1 cup sugar with 0.25 cup water. Put the cookware with the mixture on the fire and heat until all the sugar has completely dissolved, and from the cooled syrup it will be possible to roll a solid, flexible, sticky ball.
12
In the syrup, boiled to the desired consistency, put the chopped almonds, mix well and continue heating for 3-4 minutes, constantly stirring the mass.
thirteen
Add 2-3 drops of almond essence to marzipan.
14
Place the marzipan on a wide, flat plate. Cover it with cling film and cool.
fifteen
Pass the cooled marzipan through a meat grinder.
16
Sprinkle icing sugar on the table, put the marzipan mass on it and roll it out with a rolling pin. From this blank, you can cut figures with a knife or molds, or you can prepare three-dimensional figures using modeling techniques from plasticine.
17
Marzipan can cover the top of the cake or use as a layer between the cakes. To do this, the mass needs to be rolled into a layer a few millimeters thick, cut a circle equal to the diameter of the cake and place it on the cake.
18
Use a narrow strip of marzipan to shape the bottom of the cake. It will look neater.
note
Roll a small ball of marzipan mass, make a depression in it and pour a few drops of food coloring. Thoroughly kneading the mass, get colored marzipan for modeling.
Useful advice
Almonds can be grated.
Marzipan mass dries quickly. During operation, cover the unused portion of the mass with cling film.
Ready marzipan can be bought at the store.
Marzipan, placed on the top cake layer, smoothes it out and makes it easier to fit the cake with mastic.