[Sca-cooks] Marzipan Embroidery: Was: The Season Ends Softly!!

[Elise Fleming]

Maire wrote:

>Oh, gawd, now you guys actually have me *thinking* about this.....
>Couldn't you roll the marzipan in very, very small snakes, and then
>"stack" them to form a patterned cane, the way you do when making
beads?
>You could sure do a pretty decent repeating "filling" pattern that
way,
>using slices of the bead cane.....and then use some type of piped
icing
>around the edges to imitate the braidy embroidery lines.....

I think the problem would be keeping the interior patter the way you
wanted it.  Marzipan is pretty soft and the act of slicing it would
smoosh down the pattern, or at least skew it, I should think.  Me,
I'd rather work with a #1 tube and pipe the icing! :-)

Alys Katharine