To ask if you like marzipan?

[HappyGirlNow]

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

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

AFAIK Petit Fours are Petit Fours, and French Fancies French fancies.

The Costs Petit Fours at Xmas were marzipan based ...

Filthy muck. It's what they'll feel Noel Edmonds and Jeremy Kyle.......IN HELL.

Haha thanks all! Ok happy to concede that there are many more marzipan lovers than I would have thought! weirdos

He also loves Amaretto etc (boak)

Birthday boy is getting marzipan in the smaller cake he is getting on his actual birthday (but then he doesn't know about that..) bug just wondered about serving it up to so many people if reactions to it are so mixed..

I also though it was for fruit cake rather than sponge.. But my DH says 'why be bound by convention' and the cake maker is happy to include it...

I still think I'll leave it off the big party cake as it is obviously a bit marmite! And closer family can suffer it at his birthday dinner

It's a Marmite thing, isn't it?

People are saying they love it, or they HATE it.

(I love it, could eat a whole block of it.)

I loathe marzipan. A bit late now for the thread but just needed to say so!

Love Marmite though.

Love it. Always had marzipan on my birthday cakes when I was a kid and don't recall anyone not liking it.

Oh and its definitely for sponge cake too. There's a traditional cake here called Princess Cake which has 2 or 3 layers of sponge with pastry cream and a bit of jam and then the whole thing is covered in green marzipan. Absolutely lush.

Urrrgh it manages to ruin the cake and the icing at the same time!

Absolutely ruins any cake it comes into contact with. See also fondant icing. Bleurgh.

I love marzipan and if my husband decided to leave it out of MY birthday cake when I wanted it on MY birthday cake I would strop. Well, I wouldn't because I am a grown up but my birthday cake, my rules, like it or lump it.

yummy

love princess cake, Nat . do you know where it originates? Norway?

They did that Princess Cake on BakeOff once.

Marzipan is one of the world's true delights

I'm still laughing at the PP who said the marzipan on her cake was the best bit about her wedding

Maybe offer to take him to visit the home of everything marzipan....

www.niederegger.de/en_GB

love princess cake, Nat . do you know where it originates? Norway? Sweden I think

I'd never heard of Princess cake till I saw it on GBBO. Didn't much like the look of it either.

Love it in all its forms - Christmas cake, Princess Cake, Battenburg Cake, marzipan fruits, eaten straight from the block

I don't know how you can eat lumps of marzipan.
Even the smell of it makes me want to throw up.

Morrisons do a festival gateau that's similar to princess cake. And ikea do frozen princess cakes.

Love it!

I also love marzipan.

But on sponge cake?

How does that work then?

(Or maybe it doesn't!)

Yum!

I'm liking the marzipan love on this thread! Yes to Niederegger and Ritter being the best.

Nigella does a lovely Apple and Almond cake for those of you who are marzifans (see what I did there )

Hate it but I always fall for those delicious looking cakes that I forget are covered in it. I take a big bite and am quickly disappointed and disgusted.