June Kitchen Challenge Results: Homemade Marzipan

Mthp mowpheth ahh finthgs thorfth marthiparwn.

Oh, excuse me. My mouth is full of marzipan.

As will be yours when you realize how easy (and inexpensively) it can be made at home. No more spending $17 for an 8 oz log. When you calculate the cost for the homemade stuff (even the more expensive version using almond flour vs whole almonds), it’s less than $5 for a full pound.

Cost aside, I dare you to find a store-bought marzipan as lusciously soft as this. It’s anything but hard and crumbly. The splash of orange blossom water enhances the flavor in a way that you can’t really pinpoint, a faintly floral undertone that frolics around the intense almond essence.

Deciding what to DO with a pound of fresh, still warm marzipan though (other than, you know, shove it in my mouth) was tricky. Since I’m apparently going through a ‘chocolate-covered strawberry’ phase, both real and faux (in this case), I colored the dough (and my hands) a vibrant berry red and shaped it into strawberries. With a bit of green (made using a thin piece of marzipan and a flower cutter), and dipped in chocolate, it was all I could do not to devour the entire batch before the chocolate was even hardened.

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