To ask if you like marzipan?

[HappyGirlNow]

That's it really, more details to follow, but do you like marzipan or not?

Meant smoother appearance.

Work of the devil. As is anything made with almond essence.

Some people have a genetic defect which makes them unably to smell cyanide. I have a theory these are the people that love marzipan.

No don't like it and glad to see I'm not the only one!

Nope ,

Yes, but only on a cake. I can't eat it on its own.

I dislike it on cake but I suspect that that's as much to do with its association with thick icing as anything else.

On the other hand, LIDL mini stollens..........

My taste buds aren't consistent.

Yeuch. Hate it.

Can't bear the stuff. Have probably spent hours peeling it off Christmas cake....

I love marzipan but if I have more than a few mouthfuls I get a headache.
Don't know what that's about as I can stuff almonds in without any ill effects at all. Maybe it's the copious amounts of sugar?

Yuck, yuck, yuck!

However, my tastebuds are inconsistent as I do like almonds and Bakewell tart.

I don't like it but like almonds. I'm a pro cake maker too and ganache fruitcake if people don't want marzipan. Chocolate with fruitcake tastes immense believe it or not.

Can't stand it. It is one of my few real food dislikes.

I do like almonds themselves, but marzipan is awful.

I hate marzipan with a passion and I can still taste it on cake even when it's been removed. It ruined my wedding cake that I'd been looking forward to, we wanted sponge as neither of us like fruit cake and I specifically asked for no marzipan. When we cut it there was a thick layer under the icing and it ruined the cake for me.

Oooh I agree with PPs, very weird on sponge cake. I've run a cake business for a couple of years and have never done a sponge cake with marzipan, sponge you have either buttercream or ganache as the 'smoothing' layer. You will definitely need more than one cake if you are having sponge, a 12x12 sponge cake should serve around 72.

Many cake makers do use marzipan under the icing, even on a sponge cake - it does help to get a smoother finish for the icing. And it does taste nice with sponge cake (think battenburg). However, as I said, the vast, vast majority of customers do not want it.

My mother used to bake our Christmas cake when I was a child.

I loved the simnel cake mix, and would have loved the finished product too if she hadn't totally ruined it by a thick coating of marzipan.

My Dad loved it though. He couldn't and still can't understand anyone who doesn't.

I neither make nor buy Christmas cake, or any other cake which might be coated in it. For me it totally wrecks what would otherwise be a lovely cake.

Hate it on cake, battenburg, yuck. Stollen, love it. Marzipan on its own hate it. Almonds and bakewell tart - fab.

Disgusting. I always scrape it off before eating the icing.

We never buy a Xmas or birthday cake without marzipan. We also love Battenburg. However cannot eat marzipan sweets, as there is just too much in one mouthful.

If you have a tier fruitcake for wedding simple to have one with marzipan and rest without. Never heard of marzipan with a sponge cake with the exception of Battenburg, sounds really weird.

A medal to the poster who manages to eat only ONE marzipan fruit at a time.
Love love it and also apricot stone kernels!

We marzipan genetic freaks laugh in the face of cyanide poison.

Agree with everyone regarding more than one tier is needed for that amount of people, so marzipan on the top tier only would be a good compromise. But Ive always associated marzipan with fruit cake, not sponge.

tinyterrors thats awful, hope you complained? Wedding cakes arent cheap, how did that happen?

For the record... I could live on marzipan alone! Love it - way more than chocolate.
We are a marzipan family. All of us are the same here.

you could get your dh a great big slap of marzipan
and then 'normal' cake for the rest of the party.

marzipan-lovers: luebeck is fab. worth the trip.

My biggest disappointment in this country is finding no marzipan under the icing of petits fours.

(those little beautifully iced pastel coloured square sponge cakes)

Think they are called Fondants or French fancies.