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Marzipan Recipe

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Our marzipan recipe is fun and easy to make!

You don’t even need to bake it!

(Pronounced (mahr zah pan). It’s one of the best food crafts for all ages, and a wonderful elderly activity to share with grandkids or to do in a group. And crafts with candy are always very popular.

Here’s how you can make your own batch and create creatures, flowers, fruit, just about anything that you can make out of play dough or clay.

What you will need:

Almond paste – (it comes in 8-ounce cans, ready made, in quality grocery stores)
Approx. ¼ cup corn syrup
1 ½ to 2 cups confectioner’s sugar
Food coloring

Crumble the almond paste into a mixing bowl and knead it thoroughly. Add about half the corn syrup and half the confectioner’s sugar from the marzipan recipe, and knead in well. Add the other half of each ingredient, and continue to knead another 3 to 5 minutes until thoroughly mixed. It should be the consistency of play dough or clay, so you may need to add either a little more sugar or syrup to adjust the consistency. Wrap the entire ball of dough in plastic wrap. Put it in an air tight container. Refrigerator for at least two hours or even over night.

When you are ready to use it, you must let it stand at room temperature until it is soft. Then knead it for a few minutes before using. To color the dough, break off several hunks. Knead in 2 to 3 drops of food coloring, a different color for each portion. If the marzipan gets stiff or dry while you are using it, just knead in a little water or corn syrup, or microwave it for a few seconds. Marzipan dries easily, so keep whatever you are not working with wrapped in plastic.

This marzipan recipe and creations are very easy craft ideas. Marzipan can be molded into fruit, characters, creatures… almost anything you can think of. You can roll it out with a rolling pin as you would any dough, cutting shapes and pressing them together. Leaves and petals can be done in this way, as well as wings and tails for birds. A series of small circles pressed around a center forms a very nice flower. Marzipan can also be molded into birds, frogs, cats and dogs (and any animals), people, gnomes, small boxes with lids, and tiny elfin houses. They're perfect for many crafts with candy. Various pieces can be held together with toothpicks and also frosting.

Marzipan recipe creations are often used with gingerbread houses and on the top of cakes and cupcakes. But you can also create an imaginative scene out of marzipan, with candy props, on top of an upside down plate or bowl, covered with a doily. Try food-colored coconut for grass, gumdrop trees, pastel wafer paths. And a mirror for a pond. Marzipan vignettes not only make fascinating decorations, they’re edible! Don’t be surprised to find something has “disappeared.”

If you are an activities director, food activities are a hit. And for those with elderly issues that limit mobility or other types of participation, working with with their hands with this fun, clay-like dough is a favorite.

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