Home marzipan

To make marzipan, you can usewarm or cold way. Usually homemade marzipan is cooked in a warm way, as the marzipan turns out to be softer, and it is more convenient to mold ornaments from it. Main recipe marzipan at home is proposed below.

Home marzipan

To make home marzipan you will need:

• sweet almonds - 0,5 kg


• almonds bitter - 15 nucleoli


• fruit sugar - 200 g


• water - 1 tbsp. l.

Preparation

Raw almonds should be scalded, and then remove from it peel. In the oven with the door open, dry the almond kernels on a very small fire. Almonds should not burn out.

Dried almonds grind with a coffee grinder in a fine powder. Fruit sugar should also be ground in powder. In the absence of fruit sugar, it can be replaced with ready-made powdered sugar.

Sugar and almonds should be mixed thoroughly,best of all - a mixer. Using a spray, the mixture must be sprinkled with water. During the spray, the mass should be turned so that it evenly absorbs water.

Moistened with water nut-sugar mass is necessaryput in a thick-walled pot and then put on a small fire. During the heating of the mass, you need to add another 20-50 g of fruit sugar in the form of powder.

A ready-made plastic warm mass should be put on a cutting board sprinkled with powdered sugar. Now the mass can be rolled out, sculpting various figures from it.

Bon Appetit!