This Marzipan candy recipe makes a wonderful cake cover and may also be used to decorate cakes and sweets by cutting it into creative shapes. To adhere the marzipan to a cookie or cake, you will need a small amount of icing, and the result might be a tasty treat. It tastes especially good on cake when layered between layers of cream and your favorite jam!
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 1 pound marzipan |
Ingredients
- 8 ounces almond paste
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- ¼ cup corn syrup
- 3 drops any color food coloring
Instructions
- Break almond paste into small pieces over a medium bowl. Add 1 cup of confectioners’ sugar and work it in with your hands until incorporated. It will be crumbly. Add another 3/4 cup of sugar and work it in really well. Pour in corn syrup and work it in until evenly blended. Spread remaining sugar out on a clean work surface and knead dough until smooth and uniform, 3 to 5 minutes. If dough seems too sticky, knead in more sugar. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour. It should have the consistency of modeling dough.
- Break off small pieces of marzipan to color, kneading in color thoroughly until you arrive at desired color. Then blend colored pieces into larger portions of dough. Dust a work surface and rolling pin with confectioners’ sugar. Roll dough out to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes using small cookie cutters to make candies.
Reviews
This is the best marzipan candy recipe I’ve found. I really like that it doesn’t use egg whites. It is delicious. I won’t be buying this candy at the store any more now that I can make it at home and it’s much better than store bought.
Surprisingly simple to make. These turned out well, and seemed to keep fine even at room temp for a few days. They also froze well, so extras can easily be saved. Made these for my mom, who seemed to quite enjoy them.
This is the first time ever making marzipan & I have to say it was pretty easy! Only downside is when coloring it with the food coloring my hands got quite colorful & I had to wash them between each color. Was a lot of fun to make though!
We can’t buy marzipan locally here, but I have been craving it for months, so I thought I would try this recipe. It was amazing! It has all of the delicate flavor that I love about the store-bought version, but for less than half the price. Delicious. I’m planning on making more so I can give it away for the holidays (yes, I’m a little behind, but once my friends taste this, i don’t think they’ll care).
Thank you for this recipe. It was easy, quick and very tasty. Because I have arthritis in my hands, I used a food processor to mix it….super easy! I will be making this again!!
Great recipe! I used to make this every year at Christmas and shape it into fruits. It’s been a few years since I made it, so I had to find a new recipe for it. This one is perfect! Love it!
I make this every year for Christmas gift tins and at first it was received a bit warily since no one in my fiancee’s family or my friends from school had ever heard of it, but now I get frequent requests for it as the holidays come up. I use candy molds from Wilton’s to shape mine instead of rolling it out, as it seems to make the perfect sized pieces for eating and they fit nicely in the mini-cupcake papers to go in the tins. I just roll a ball in sugar and press it into the mold (I usually use a heart or flower shape) and they pop right back out. If you don’t roll them in sugar first they tend to stick a bit.
EASY, never made Marzipan before but I will again, this recipe was a snap
I would rate this 4 stars only because it was a little difficult and time consuming to make. I had to go to Whole Foods to find some ingredients.
What a great recipe! I substituted one cup of dark cocoa for one cup sugar and omitted the food coloring. I also rolled these into little balls and decorated with a white chocolate chip. So many rave reviews!
As good as any marzipan I’ve bought. Very easy, yet super delicious. I rolled the marzipan to 1/4 – 1/2 inch thickness and cut out with the rim of a shot glass powdered in confectioners sugar (I couldn’t find mini cookie cutters). They were a nice size and some of them I dipped in melted chocolate – superb!
This is a great recipe!! I wanted to buy some chocolate covered marzipan for my Mom and Grandma for Christmas, but couldn’t find it locally and tried this. I cut out Christmas trees, covered them in dark chocolate then topped them with chopped hazelnuts. They turned out wonderful!!! My husband took some to school and had a foreign exchange student from Germany taste it, she said it tasted just like the ones back home! Great Recipe!
we are having a class party, so i decided to try these! they were super easy to make and were a big hit with all of my fellow classmates =D thats an epic win, considering that no one had ever even heard of these
Perfect recipe. It was a big hit. I didn’t color it. I just rolled it out and made star shapes with a cookie cutter. Next time I plan to dip it in dark chocolate.
My mother spent a few years in Germany in her youth, apparently doing nothing but tasting delicious deserts. Anyways, she’s a self-described “marzipan snob” and usually refuses to eat it. After some basic coercion and much begging on my part, she agreed to try it…and said it was the best marzipan she’s ever had. I made this in order to sculpt little bananas to top some banana-filled chocolate cupcakes I made. I brought the leftovers to my boyfriends house, and his 10 year-old brother greatly enjoyed making figures out of it. It’s a great activity for kids, if your kids like playdough and you’re okay with cleaning up the inevitable mess. As one might expect, it’s sort of a pain to work with (mine was really sticky and I didn’t want to add too much sugar for fear of grainy candy) but the texture is perfect; not to dry as lots of marzipan usually is. The corn syrup really adds a lot. Overall, there’s nothing I would change, and I’ll definitely be making it again.
I will never buy premade marzipan again. This tastes so much better and you get so much more product.
I can’t believe how easy this was. I made marzipan pumpkins and apples to decorate a cake. Everyone was so impressed and the marzipan was delicious!
Wonderful! I just made it for cake decorations for a birthday cake for my Dad and it turned out beautifully. I molded small marzipan oranges and they look soo cute. Plus, it tastes awesome. I never like marzipan when I was a kid but this recipe is delicious. I used a pastry blender to break up the almond paste and combine it with the sugar.
I love chocolate covered marzipan but its sooo expensive to buy in the stores, so I am so excited to find this recipe and that it turned out so well, and this recipe is far better than the marzipan I have purchased. I am also happy that it is eggless, since my kids love to eat it as well. The only thing I changed, is that I added a teaspoon of almond extract for some extra almond-ey flavor! Thanks for a great recipe!!
My mom loved this candy, I dipped mine in a dark chocolate it came out good. She asks for it all of the time.
Fantastic! made it for a friend of mine and her husband and he really loves marzipan… and this was the first time I ever made it. I added a little bit of coco powder to the last step to give it more of a brown color. I made little roses out of it and decorated the top of the cake for it. the was a sour cream chocolate cake with raspberry filling… it was a great recipe he loved it!!