# Where is the love for marzipan? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274 "2010-06-07T14:29:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274/21 "2010-06-08T02:55:17Z")
> [@Teacake](#): > > I’ve been to a lot of places and eaten a lot of marzipan. Ritter Sport marzipan is certainly a favourite in this house. However until you’ve been to Toledo and bought a fresh box of Mazapán de Toledo, you haven’t tasted anything. I have! At first, it was strangely disappointing, because it’s not like the marzipan you get in America. It’s much dryer and really not sweet at all. But damn, you cannot stop eating that stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274/22 "2010-06-08T13:57:12Z")
> [@GildedLily](#): > > Marzipan is ok, I find Homestar and Strongbad to be the stars though. But her answering machine is pretty funny. 🙂 You gotta love how she shuts down Homestar, though. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274/23 "2010-06-08T15:32:11Z")
I recall as a young child biting into something that looked like a delicious fruit gummy, only to be greeted with a cloyingly sweet nutty taste and a gritty, paste-like texture. Marzipan is the candy of disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274/24 "2010-06-08T16:01:38Z")
i adore marzipan and allow myself a tiny nibble when i am making the christmas stollen … _sigh_ I can deal with being a gimp, but I really hate being diabetic =( I would even accept gimpdom happily if i could have no more diabetes=( ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274/25 "2010-06-08T16:17:15Z")
Marzipan in the UK sucks. But my brother’s girlfriend brought me some from Denmark and it was delicious. Then my Hungarian friend got me some and it too was delicious. Then I went to the amazing Montezuma chocolate shop in Sussex and had some of theirs and it too was amazing. We’re just deprived of the good stuff here; that’s why everyone hates it. Also, it contains cyanide. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274/26 "2010-06-09T10:04:57Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > What is your recipe? How expensive is the end result? As expensive as almonds are in your vicinity, basically. I don’t use a recipe, as such. I start with around 500g ground almonds and 4 tbs rosewater, and a bag of icing sugar. I put the almonds in my big mortar with half the rosewater, pound it to a firm paste, add the rest of the rosewater and then start mixing in icing sugar until I get my desired consistency. Depending on what it’s for, that might be all, or I might colour, and/or flavour it, and/or bake it to firm it up (180° C for 25 mins). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-love-for-marzipan/542274.md?page=1)