2006-12-08 11:48:25 · 9 answers · asked by smallpot 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Marzipan is a paste made with ground almonds and sugar. It's quite stiff but flexible and easy to sculpt into shapes, and a layer of it between a dark cake and white icing will stop the dark colours leaching into the white.
It's just one of those things that appeal to the German national kiddie consciousness - especially as Stollen cake (unusually, with the marzipan on the inside rather than the outside) is traditionally served at Christmas, so you get a taste for it all year round.
2006-12-08 20:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by DreamWeaver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of total almond content by weight. Some marzipan is also flavored with rosewater. Persipan is a similar product, for which the almonds are replaced by apricot or peach kernels.
Marzipan is often made into sweets: common uses are marzipan-filled chocolate and small marzipan imitations of fruits and vegetables. It is also rolled into thin sheets and glazed for icing cakes and is traditionally used in wedding cakes, Christmas cakes, and stollen. In some countries marzipan is shaped into small figures of animals, such as pigs, as a traditional treat for New Year's Day. Marzipan is also used in Tortell, and in some versions of king cake eaten during the Carnival season.
In Italy, particularly in Palermo, marzipan (marzapane) is often shaped and painted with food colorings to resemble fruit — Frutta martorana — especially during the Christmas season. In Portugal, traditional marzipan (maçapão) fruit shaped sweets made in the Algarve region are called morgadinhos. There are other regions, as Toledo in Spain in which Marzipan is shaped into simple animal shapes, and usually filled in with egg yolk and sugar (yema).
2006-12-08 20:55:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mags 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marzipan is mainly made of ground almonds.
2006-12-08 11:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by mistickle17 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marzipan is made from ground almonds and fine sugar. It is used very similar to Icing (on and in everything sweet)...mmmm yummy!
2006-12-08 11:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by atricky123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
marzipan is made from ground almonds and coconut. dont know why germans use it.
2006-12-08 11:51:35 · answer #5 · answered by chefaid90 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ground almonds and sugar ground down. I think that is all. I do not know why they put it on cakes and in chocolates, but I do know one thing...... I love it!!! And I can not have it any more!
2006-12-08 21:41:15 · answer #6 · answered by zakiit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ground almonds and sugar.
2006-12-08 11:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its made from almonds and the germans luv nuts
2006-12-08 12:44:45 · answer #8 · answered by wilbur2lot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think this questions up twice.
2006-12-08 12:04:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋