How to make marzipan cake decorating - video recipes at home

The recipe for marzipan

Ingredients:

1 cup of sugar

1 cup almonds

0, 25 glasses of water

1 tbsp. spoon of cocoa powder

2-3 drops of almond essence

powdered sugar

food colorings

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How to cook marzipan:

1. Lower unpeeled almonds in boiling water, boil it for 1-2 minutes, flip in a colander, glass to all the water and place it on a cutting board.
2. After cooling down, remove the skin from the nuts, once again wash them and cook for 10-15 minutes on a hot dry frying pan, stirring constantly.
3. Then grind the almonds in a blender until the consistency of mashed potatoes and boil sugar and water syrup, thickened to a viscous state.
4. Put in the chopped nuts sugar syrup and heat for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly, then add to the almond essence and the resulting mass lay out on a dish.
5. Cover the marzipan with a damp cloth or plastic wrap, and refrigerate miss chilled mass through a meat grinder.
6. sprinkle with powdered sugar and a cutting board with a rolling pin roll out a sheet of desired thickness - you'll have a soft elastic semi-finished product, which is easily cut with a knife and form from it a variety of jewelry.
7. To do this, you need to be separated from marzipan piece of the desired size, squeeze it a little food coloring and knead thoroughly until uniform staining hands. Of the softened mass can sculpt flowers, figures, stars, hearts and much more.

How to decorate a cake

1. to beautifully decorate a cake with marzipan, marzipan cut from the finished weight of the circle and place it on top of the cake, smear cream or jam, lightly pressed to the surface.
2. The remaining marzipan divide into three parts, dye them in green, red and yellow, green mass roll and cut therefrom hearts using molds.
3. Put them in a clover leaf and attach it to a long thin green stems from the same part of marzipan.
4. yellow and red part of the roll out thinly, cut out of these butterflies and put them on the cake, and then lubricate the wings of a butterfly egg white and decorate with sugar beads.

as a blind roses from marzipan:

1. To do this blind from red marzipan mass of small balls, roll them into thin circles between two layers of the food film and cut in the middle.
2. One of the lap roll into a tube (cut up), which will be the core of flower petals and the remaining roll of 6-7 cut round pieces and wrap around the side of the semi-circular core.
3. Each petal is slightly bend outwards, and the leaves of rose cut green marzipan, put streaks on them with a sharp knife and a little squeeze at the bottom of each leaf, gracefully tilting each tip.
4. The finished marzipan decoration should dry for one hour (at least), so it retains its original form and has not violated in the process of registration.