[Sca-cooks] Re: marzipan help

[Cat Dancer]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 Devra at aol.com wrote:

>        1) My (new) Canton of Brokenbridge is trying to do a bunch of amusing
> A&S evenings. In Feb, we're having one called 'The subject was roses' - for
> Valentine's Day, of course. So we'll be making roses out of fabric and ribbon
> and of course marzipan. So my first question is, does someone have a good
> on-line not-too-expensive source for bulk orders?

I get mine locally, alas.

>     2) Related to the above, does anyone remember a [non-period] recipe for
> marzipan using the almond paste and marshmallow fluff? I lost my copy at an
> event where someone walked off with the recipe book.

http://www.aaa-recipes.com/marshcreme/marshcream33.html


>     3) Do you think that fondant would work for roses?
>            Devra (who REALLY doesn't want to grind all those almonds)
>

Fondant (of the rolled kind, not the poured kind) works just fine for 
roses. It dries faster than marzipan, but it's pretty similar.

Margaret FitzWilliam