Photo: Mae Mu
Easy vanilla marzipan
7 ingredients
20 min
Covers a 20cm/8in cake
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It's worth having a go at making your own marzipan to cover your Christmas cake - and you can experiment with adding different flavours
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
237
Calories
9g
Protein
6g
Fat
37g
Carbs
Counts 7 of 8 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Apricot | 1 medium (35g) | 17 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Almond | 1 almond (1.2g) | 7 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 280g icing sugar , sifted, plus extra for kneading and rolling out
- 450g ground almonds
- seeds scraped from 1 vanilla pod
- 2 eggs , beaten
- 0.5 tsp orange or lemon juice
- 3 tbsp apricot jam , warmed then sieved
Directions
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By bbcgoodfood ·
Recipe sourced from
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