Products made of marzipan tasty, easy to prepare and very beautiful. Prepare fresh almond marzipan and icing sugar. Therefore, it can be used in the children's cooking.
Marzipan is sufficiently plastic mass having a light yellow color with a strong smell of almond. When preparing figures it should be remembered that it is impossible for a long time to knead the marzipan hands, otherwise it will become sticky and unsuitable for further use. In this case it is better to add the powdered sugar finely ground.
Lubricate hands powder, put it in a little bit of myself and carefully roll it in powdered sugar. After marzipan can be used again for sculpting.
Ready marzipan can be dyed with dyes. Why in a separate container dilute food dye. Make a recess within the mass and pigments are added gradually, gradually attaining the desired color. Knead. Then, add a small piece of a greater and knead again and so continue until the whole mixture becomes homogeneous color. Marzipan well turn out figures of animals, flowers, people that you can decorate any pastries.
You can sculpt fruits, vegetables and berries. To get the similarity with real products, marzipan figures are subject to special cutting. For skin like lemon, citrus marzipan slightly Grate and strawberries for the same purpose and hold for a couple too lightly rubbed. Create the effect of grain in the berry can be achieved by the introduction of small holes in the crumb of the nuts. Cuttings replace cloves. And to give smoothness and shine, you can resort to a couple.
Vegetables can be cooked in different ways, for example, potato crumble in cocoa, make eyes stick. Cabbage folded using roll out the layer thickness of 3 mm, marzipan pieces and also stained. You can cook zucchini, by coloring it with different colors to achieve similarity to the present.
Marzipan figurines always occupy a worthy place on the holiday table, surprise guests and decorate any confection!