Marzipan - the devil's food?

[ouirdeaux]

It's awful. Apart from in Stollen. No, I don't understand that either.

 

[Silas Loom]

I love marzipan.
It is fantastic stuff.
I would happily eat it in a sandwich.

As that famous epicure Pooh said: “but don’t bother about the bread”.

 

[trabuquera]

Posh or authentic marzipan - the stuff that isn't contaminated with fake almond essence, or more than 70% sugar - is fucking lovely.
Bog standard marzipan is horrible but at least it's nicer than fruitcake. Yeah, I said it.

 

[newme]

Marzipan can fuck all the way off.

Fondant and royal icing are also pointless, but at least they don't really taste of anything much.

Yup tried both of those, marshmallow fondant is the one, shapeable, tastes good and you can treat it near enough like royal or fondant. Except the leaving it til its inedible bit since you actually want to eat it.

 

[May Kasahara]

I hate marshmallows too

 

[Silas Loom]

I don’t understand the role that marshmallows play in American culture, and smores can definitely fuck off, but otherwise they are an inoffensive sweet.

 

[RubyToogood]

Simnel cake is the best. Not only does it have marzipan on the outside, it has a delicious layer of marzipan cooked in the middle.

 

[WouldBe]

As that famous epicure Pooh said: “but don’t bother about the bread”.

Or 2 slices of marzipan with a filling in-between.

 

[Epona]

Or 2 slices of marzipan with a filling in-between.

Isn't that essentially a battenberg?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Nope, not a fan. I did eat a whole big jar of maraschino cherries one night, but I'd have devoured a leprous feline.

 

[WouldBe]

Isn't that essentially a battenberg?

Not sure you usually have cake as the filling in a sandwich.

 

[Epona]

Not sure you usually have cake as the filling in a sandwich.

Not sure you usually have marzipan as a bread replacement in a sandwich

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

As well as being delicious, marzipan is dirt cheap. It’s the answer to soaring confectionery prices. Just buy a block and gnaw at it.

I sort of tried that once. I loved marzipan. One night as a teenager in a children's home I woke in the night and fancied a snack so I raided the pantry and stole a butter-sized block of marzipan. Who knew that it would be so hard to eat something that you loved so much? I didn't finish it, got part way through and started to feel sick.

Couldn't eat it again for years after that, but love it again now. Well, I mean, I love it enough to have bought some of those Lubeck chocolate hearts when I was in Germany and I quite like Battenburg cake, but I'd never attempt to eat a whole block again.

 

[dessiato]

I love marzipan and have, in the past, been known to buy a slab to eat. (There's little wonder I'm diabetic) I don't particularly like it made into shapes, why would you do that?

 

[danny la rouge]

Marzipan - yes.
Marshmallows - no.

Marshmallows are weird and not food.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I liked marshmallows as a child. S'mores were great!

I suspect I wouldn't like them, or marshmallows, now.

 

[Elpenor]

Don’t like either

 

[danny la rouge]

S'mores were great!

Wasn’t aware of them/it until recently. Never tried the … delicacy. Sounds horrible.

Talking of nightmares, here’s something you can’t unknow:

 

[iona]

Marzipan can fuck all the way off.

Fondant and royal icing are also pointless, but at least they don't really taste of anything much.

The lack of other flavours just makes the too-sweetness even more overpowering. Even nasty, cheap marzipan at least tastes of something else as well.

Regular marzipan is ok but grilled marzipan is lush. It's less pastey and not quite as sweet. I do big sheets of it rolled out really thin, grilled until it's just starting to brown on top, and then cut shapes out for stuff like cake decorations. Then eat all the offcuts until I feel sick

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

The lack of other flavours just makes the too-sweetness even more overpowering. Even nasty, cheap marzipan at least tastes of something else as well.

Regular marzipan is ok but grilled marzipan is lush. It's less pastey and not quite as sweet. I do big sheets of it rolled out really thin, grilled until it's just starting to brown on top, and then cut shapes out for stuff like cake decorations. Then eat all the offcuts until I feel sick

I'm intrigued by the idea of grilled marzipan, would like to try that.

 

[iona]

I'm intrigued by the idea of grilled marzipan, would like to try that.

I often make my own marzipan for icing cakes but I find shop stuff best for this as the consistency is more... consistent.

Roll it out to about the thickness of a pound coin or slightly thinner, stick it on a baking tray lined with some baking parchment - no need to grease the tray so the paper sticks - and stick that in the top of a hot grill. The one in my old oven used to only need about 20 seconds but ymmv. Take it out and if you want, cut it into shapes while it's still very slightly gooey and not completely set. A chef's blowtorch would probably work well too but I don't have one.

I generally let it get to about this colour:

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I absolutely hate it. Just the smell makes me want to vomit.

Oddly though, I love almonds.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I like it, but almost never get any. What I like and get more often is candy made from maple sugar and formed into leaf shapes.

 

[emanymton]

Wasn’t aware of them/it until recently. Never tried the … delicacy. Sounds horrible.

Talking of nightmares, here’s something you can’t unknow:
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I don't understand how you combine those 2 things.

 

[RubyToogood]

I actually have two blocks of marzipan in my cupboards. I was going to make a Christmas cake and didn't, then I was going to make a simnel cake and didn't. Not sure what to do with them now.

 

[cesare]

I actually have two blocks of marzipan in my cupboards. I was going to make a Christmas cake and didn't, then I was going to make a simnel cake and didn't. Not sure what to do with them now.

This looks nice: Marzipan Loaf Cake

 

[Silas Loom]

I actually have two blocks of marzipan in my cupboards. I was going to make a Christmas cake and didn't, then I was going to make a simnel cake and didn't. Not sure what to do with them now.

Cut off small chunks and stick them into stoned dates, then shove a walnut in too.

 

[petee]

if by "the devil's food" you mean "it tastes like Hell", then yeah.

 

[RubyToogood]

Hm, apparently you can grate it into crumble topping

 

[klang]

I actually have two blocks of marzipan in my cupboards. I was going to make a Christmas cake and didn't, then I was going to make a simnel cake and didn't. Not sure what to do with them now.

Marzipan potatoes

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