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Marzipan Recipe: How to make your own Marzipan?

Recipe with eggs
Ingredients:
450g grounded almonds
225g icing Sugar
225g castor sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon almond essence
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

Method:
1. Whisk together the eggs, almond essence and lemon juice
2. Add in the icing, castor sugar and grounded almonds
3. Knead the mixture into a dough
4. Wrap in polywrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour until required

Recipe without eggs
Ingredients:
240g small pieces of almond paste
400g icing sugar
50g corn syrup

Method:
1. Knead the almond paste together with 200g of sugar until uniform
2. Add another 150g of sugar into the mixture
3. Pour corn syrup in and knead the mixture into a dough for 5mins
4. Spread the remaining sugar on a clean work surface and continue to knead the dough (add slightly more sugar if the dough is sticky)
5. Wrap in polywrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour until required

Final Step
Colouring:
Take out required amount of Marzipan, add a few drops of food colouring and knead until the dough is of uniform colour. The Marzipan is now ready for shaping into decorative use.

What is Marzipan?

Definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

"Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and ground almonds.

It derives its characteristic flavour from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of the total almond content by weight. Some marzipan is also flavored with rosewater. Persipan is a similar product, for which the almonds are replaced by apricot or peach kernels.

Marzipan is often made into sweets: common uses are marzipan-filled chocolate and small marzipan imitations of fruits and vegetables. It is also rolled into thin sheets and glazed for icing cakes..."