TOP 4 recipes with photos of making marzipan sweets at home. Culinary tips and secrets. Video recipes.
Marzipan sweets are popular in many countries around the world. This is a bold original taste and a bright festive color. Nowadays marzipan candies can be bought at any major store. However, it is quite easy to make marzipan mass on your own at home. Its preparation is so simple that you can serve candies with marzipan not only for large celebrations, but also for small friendly parties. This review presents the most interesting recipes for marzipan sweetness.
Culinary tips and secrets
- Use raw, unpeeled almonds to make marzipan. It can be substituted with prepared almond flour.
- To peel the almond kernels, pour the nuts with cold water (!) For 10 minutes. Hot water will degrade the taste of the almonds and wash out the oils that give the marzipan mass its elasticity.
- It is important that the almonds are dry. To do this, dry it slightly in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 100 degrees.
- To improve the aroma and taste, a little bitter almonds or a few drops of almond essence are often added to the marzipan mass.
- Do not mix almonds with other nuts, otherwise the quality of marzipan will noticeably deteriorate. Although now there are marzipan candies made from pistachios, hazelnuts and other types of nuts.
- When preparing marzipan, sugar can be replaced with fructose.
- Pieces of dried fruits, raisins, chocolate, candied fruits, nuts, alcohol, cocoa are added to the finished marzipan mass. At the same time, keep in mind that marzipan itself is a high-calorie product (500 Kcal per 100 g), and the addition of these products will further increase the calorie content of sweets.
- Freshly prepared marzipan takes on a special aroma when covered with chocolate icing.
- Also, marzipan is good in baking cakes and desserts.
- The marzipan mass is stored in the refrigerator for 1-2 months in a tightly wrapped cling film.
Classic Marzipan on the water
At home, classic Marzipan is prepared from 2 main products: almonds and powdered sugar. Water is used as a liquid base, which is often replaced with egg white with lemon juice.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 500 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 30-40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Almonds - 300 g
- Water - 1 tablespoon
- Powdered sugar - 100 g
Cooking classic marzipan in water:
- Grind dry peeled almonds from the husk into flour using a blender to turn the nuts into powder.
- Combine the powdered sugar, almonds and water, and whisk everything with a blender.
- Send the mixture to the fire and stirring all the time, cook it for 2-3 minutes.
- Remove from heat and roll into balls. Top them with sugar or chocolate icing, if desired.
Marzipan on egg whites
A marzipan treat made with egg whites is the perfect dessert for Christmas. The taste of sweets is slightly different from the classic recipe, but the result is no less tasty, delicious, satisfying and healthy.
Ingredients:
- Almonds - 300 g
- Powdered sugar - 300 g
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp
- Egg white - 1 pc.
Cooking marzipan on egg whites:
- Grind the peeled almonds into a flour consistency and mix with powdered sugar.
- Beat the egg white with a mixer with lemon juice for about 30 seconds and add to the almond mixture.
- Knead a firm and pliable dough. If the marzipan spills, add a little water.
- Sculpt the figurines, wrap them in plastic and refrigerate for 3-4 days.
Chocolate coated marzipan sweets
Delicious and healthy chocolate-covered marzipan sweets. They will be a wonderful DIY Christmas present.
Ingredients:
- Raw almonds - 300 g
- Powdered sugar - 100 g
- Egg white - 2 pcs.
- Bitter chocolate - 1 bar
- Hazelnuts - 50 g
Cooking marzipan sweets in chocolate:
- Pour raw almonds with cold water for 15 minutes, so that the skin comes off. Clean it and let it dry. Then grind with a blender until you get flour.
- Add the icing sugar to the almond mixture and mix with a blender.
- Beat the egg white with a blender in a strong foam and spoon into the mixture of ground almonds.
- Rub the mass so that it begins to thicken and turn into plasticine.
- Roll balls out of it, put hazelnuts inside and send them to the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath and dip the marzipan balls into it.
- Then put the products on parchment and send to freeze in the refrigerator.
Marzipan sweets with rum
The original recipe for marzipan sweets with rum. If you want to add a special aroma and taste, add one bitter nut for a hundred sweet almonds. You can replace bitter almonds with flavors at the stage of kneading almond dough.
Ingredients:
- Almonds - 150 g
- Light rum - 1 ml
- Chocolate drops - 30 g
- Coconut flakes - 100 g
- Powdered sugar - 100 g
- Quail egg whites - 3 pcs.
Making marzipan sweets with rum:
- Peel the almonds from the outer dark shell, dry and grind in a mill into the smallest crumb.
- Stir almond flour with powdered sugar, and add rum or other aromatic alcohol, such as cognac or liqueur, to this mixture.
- Beat the whites of the quail eggs with a mixer until firm peaks and combine with almond flour.
- Knead all the ingredients to a smooth, non-batter dough so that it does not stick to your hands.
- Form into round candies filled with several chocolate drops.
- Dip each ball of candy in the coconut and refrigerate for 1 hour.
