none of my family or friends like marzipan, they think it's the devils own!
2006-10-23 01:45:06 · 9 answers · asked by merciasounds 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
try modeling chocolate. its basically a ganache made with sugar syrup and makes chocolate play dough. Fondant would seem like an obvious substitute, but fondant is basically sugar which is hygroscopic. I would think that it would leech moisture from the royal icing and become soft if not syrupy.
2006-10-23 05:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by ph62198 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So long as you aren't icing the cake months in advance, you should get away without any marzipan. I can't stand it either, so I just make sure the icing is extra-thick and it doesn't hang around for more than a few days. Cake in my house never does!
If you do need to make it up ages in advance, you could use coloured rather than white icing. Alternatively, my Nan used to make a beautiful fruit cake which was topped with glazed cherries (she put the cherries into the bottom of the tin in a pattern and then laid the cake mixture on top so that when the cake was cooked and turned out it looked pretty without being iced at all).
Good luck.
2006-10-23 01:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what about a rolled fondant, like the cake decorators use? (sorry, duh, didn't read all the answers before...i'm being repetitive)
But it'll do the same job as the Marzipan did. You could always flavour the fondant with whatever extracts you fancy (pretty sure you won't be using almond).
I miss Christmas Cakes...we don't make them anymore over here since my parents got older. (lived in US for a long long time, but originally from UK)
2006-10-23 02:44:42 · answer #3 · answered by colourshift 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't imagine any fruit cake with marzipan and then royal icing to beat! How gross that must be! You aren't a bunch of sugar freaks by any chance?
2006-10-23 03:06:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
How about a rolled out fondant - You can buy it ready made in various colours.
Or if you use white, you can colour it to your own specs.
It doesn't taste of very much,and isn't overly sweet, but is a good base for royal icing!
2006-10-23 01:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ Kazbaz ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a thin layer of fondant icing, you can buy this real to roll.
2006-10-23 01:53:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
use ready rolled icing..marzipan is not neccessary
2006-10-23 03:26:14 · answer #7 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple fondant icing also can keep the liquid in, however you do nt necessarily need either
2006-10-23 01:50:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
white almond paste is an ideal alternative
2006-10-23 01:54:32 · answer #9 · answered by michael c 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋