Homemade Marzipan Recipe
Homemade marzipan might cost a little to make, but with this recipe, you will get a huge amount of dough to work with for filling candies, covering a cake, or making figures. My family loves marzipan so much that I notice that the batch just keeps getting smaller and smaller because there are little sneaky hands taking lumps out of my batch before I can even make it into anything! A bag of almond four can run you anywhere from around $10.00 to $15.00 per pound, but the amount of dough is well worth the cost, and it beats paying the exuberant amount for just a small little tube found in the grocery store at about $5.00 for 4 oz.!
RECIPE
1 pound of almond flour/meal
1 pound powdered sugar
2 egg whites at room temperature
1/2 cup almond coffee syrup
1 tsp. pure almond flavoring.
Mix the powdered sugar and the almond flour/meal together on low speed in the mixer. Put the dough hook onto your mixer and pour the syrup over the dry ingredients and on low speed combine these together. Add the remaining ingredients and go up a speed on your mixer to incorporate all of the dough. Place out onto a kneading board and work powdered sugar into the dough until it is no longer sticky and similar to fondant. Place into a zipper bag until ready to use for candies, cakes, figures, etc. If not using right away, place into the refrigerator. With this recipe, I make small marzipan fruits about the size of a walnut shell, as some of my Christmas candy. You can make figures out of this mixture the same as with gum paste or fondant figures, but I use 'egg white glue' mixed with a bit of the marzipan to stick pieces together. This particular recipe will make approx. 2 pounds or more of marzipan. To make your fruits, you can either mold them all in the natural color of the dough first and then go back and 'blush' fruits with petal dust in the appropriate colors, or you can color sections of the dough according to the color of the fruits you are making and then use some petal dust to define details in the fruit. I have done both, glazing and non glazing with these and no one seems to notice one way or the other. The ones in this picture were glazed with a mixture of white Karo syrup and Vodka.
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Comment by Linda Wolff on December 10, 2012 at 1:15am
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yep, that would work perfectly June, or just use a slightly thinned down Karo white syrup with a little extra almond flavoring when adding the almond.
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Comment by June Kowalczyk on December 9, 2012 at 9:05pm
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The syrup Linda is referring to Goreti, to is just flavored syrups you can buy at most grocery stores or coffee shops. You could always make a simple syrup with almond flavoring. That would work too.
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Comment by Goreti on December 9, 2012 at 8:44pm
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I already bought the almond meal/flour. Now I need to find the almond coffee syrup. Never seen it but then again never really looked for it.
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I missed this post Linda. Recipe sounds so good, and easy too. I can buy ready made marzipan at Ikea, or at my Bulk Barn for a pretty reasonable price. My family is not a lover of marzipan, so for me to make a large batch would be a waste.
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Goreti, it's as easy as fondant to make. Not hard at all.
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Comment by Katy Nott on December 1, 2012 at 1:15pm
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ha, funny you should say that. We have more Asian and Caribbean food stores here than English.
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Thanks for the recipe. I was looking into this the other day. I've never made it but I'm thinking of trying it .
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I'll bet it's a whole lot cheaper, Katy, since you folks use so much marzipan for fruit cakes, desserts, candy, etc. Otherwise it would cost a blooming fortune to cover a fruit cake! It's funny what is a trend in one country and not in another. The only place I have seen the marzipan fruits are at an International type food store like World Market, and now our World Market in our area has closed down. We used to be able to buy all kinds of European foods at the military commissary (George is retired military so we can go any time we want) but even that has gone more to an Asian persuasion rather than European.
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btw - our ground almonds are quite fine - you can bake with them. They cost about £1 for 100g, so 1lb of them would be expensive. Cheaper for us to buy readymade it would seem.
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My Mum always made petit fours at Christmas - little almond paste treats, macaroons, tiny meringues and marzipan fruits (bananas, strawberries, oranges and apples). They were really real looking and we all loved them. No pesky nut allergies in our family in those days.
Yikes - your marzipan is really expensive! We can buy it in white or yellow and it costs about £1.75 for 500g of supermarket own brand. Makes a change for something to be cheaper over here.
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