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!
You gotta love how she shuts down Homestar, though.
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.
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=(
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.
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).