do children like marzipan? surely not? but kirstie and phil think so...

[AitchTwoOh]

just wait til you see this ridiculous kids party they are doing on telly...

anyway, would your children thank you for a marzipan penguin?

You could say that about most sweets!

Except marzipan and real licorice of course

precisely.

Sorry PrettyCandles. Don't do it. Step away from the Nutella. Your fingers get all chocolatey and you have to roll the marzipan into ever more inventive shapes to get at the Nutella near the bottom of the jar. You will invite looks of pure scorn from your partner as he wonders what he ever saw in you.

(DH is a marzipan-hater. And he is vair middle-class. Fingers in jars Will Not Do.)

It's true. My uncles told me when I was a kid, and have uncles ever lied to their niece? Ever?

Oh I dunno, if he discovered me at the right moment I think he might join in...

marzipan is vile

yes the DS like marziapn, stollen, battenburg and fruit cakes with marzipan chunks in (Nigella recipe).

oooo i love strawberry laces, liquorice however is vile.

i used to love it, until while 8w pg with ds and regularly projectile vomitting at work (which when you manage a restaurant is NOT good- no wonder they bundled me up to the office all the time to eat my cinder toffee and drink warm vinegar) someone told me it was great for morning/all day sickness. so I bought a pack. ate one stick and promptly threw up all over the coffee machine.

then again behind the bar.

then twice in the toilet.

then again in the front entrance as a booked party of 20 arrived for lunch.

I no longer eat liquorice.

Oooooh Nigella

Battenberg. Now we're talking. I have THE most fabulous Jane Brocket recipe for Battenberg, makes the most enormous cake.

Mwahahahaha

Unprune - I went to a very posh boarding school and fingers in jars of Nutella were de rigueur. Any other way considered common.

....I can't stop posting on this thread. I like almonds too much.

I always buy too much marzipan for the cake at Christmas so I have to make chocolate dipped ( G and B 70 pc natch ) marzipan balls with the leftovers.

Does anyone make their own marzipan? Is it worth it?

I did, just out of curiosity, but decided that it wasn't worth the effort. Most shop-bought marzipan is perfectly good, especially the white marzipan.

Like your idea of choc-dipped balls. Lindt 70% for me, though for milk choc I prefer G&B.

Mentioned this to family member who tells me that cheap marzipan is made from soya. Proper marzipan is, I am told, nicer and I must try it. I am .
Stil, it's an excuse to go to the posh sweetie shop.

actually to be fair really expensive marzipan is near-tolerable. but the stuff that people put on christmas cakes (or did in the 70s, when i last put that nasty yellow blanket of almond keech in my mouth) is revoltissimo.

Will I post you a posh pig Aitch, should I find one?

we aren't talking about stuart baggs any more, i take it? [wrong thread icon]

Had to check then. He's not really posh is he?

Nothing can stop it sticking to your palate and gums. Furry Sugar Grains.

bbbrrrr

nah, he's not posh. he is adorable, though.

When ds1 would eat little else he ate slices of marzipan. loved it..

While I am there I will buy proper sweeties to take the mean taste away. Sherbet lemons and chocolate button jazzies and midget gems.

I hate marzipan!

Ohhh I have always loved marzipan, we used to get a little bag of homemade "marzipan potatoes" in our Christmas stockings every year and they were my favourite! - little balls of marzipan rolled in cocoa powder, mmmm.

JAZZIES!

Waitrose white marzipan is just almonds and various forms of sugar - no colourings, flavourings, or artificial gibbons. I'd consider that to be bog-standard marzipan. And very nice, too.