Hello friends! Here's a simple recipe for making marzipan (almond paste) at home.
It is used to make candy, festive baking or marzipan figurines.
Watch the video, it's not difficult at all.
How can you make marzipan at home? 👇
Homemade marzipan recipe
- Pour boiling water over the almonds and let it stand for five minutes.
- Then peel the nuts, it's simple, he jumps out of the skin himself.
- If the almonds are old and poorly cleaned, drain this water and pour boiling water over again.
- Rinse peeled nuts quickly with cold water and dry.
- Grind nuts in pulse mode until crumbs.
- Add powdered sugar to them and grind everything together.
- The end result is a mixture of almonds and powdered sugar.
- In a saucepan, mix water with sugar, turn on the heat and bring to a boil and the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Boil the syrup to 115 ° C, this is a test for the "soft ball".
- Keep heat between medium and minimum.
- From the moment of boiling, it usually takes me 5 minutes.
- Add chopped almonds to the syrup and grind everything well.
- Return the mass to the same blender and grind again at low speed.
- If you have bitter almonds, I recommend adding them now to enhance the flavor and aroma.
- In the case of a large amount of marzipan, you can use a meat grinder.
- If the mass does not collect in a lump, adjust the density with boiled water, adding it in a teaspoon.
- If the mass is too thin, you can adjust the thickness with powdered sugar.
- You can put marzipan in the refrigerator.
Marzipan (almond paste) recipe:
100 g peeled almonds or almond powder
50 g icing sugar
100 g sugar + 50 g water
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I wish you bon appetit and God bless you!