These cute marzipan fruits and vegetables will decorate any theme. cake or cake, but they can also be served as sweets in paper molds or fruit baskets. For their manufacture you will need natural marzipan, without any additives, and food dyes. Follow the instructions for decorating the recipe and you have get very realistic miniature fruits that are completely easy to do without even having special pastry shops tools.
Recipe author – Anna Olson (Olson) – pastry chef and presenter tv shows
Time: 2 час.
Recipe:
- 2 packs of natural dye-free marzipan
- Food Coloring Paste
- Raw Whole Grain Spaghetti (for stems)
- Cloves (for the bottom of apples and pears)
- Cocoa powder (for potatoes)
You will need:
Bamboo skewers, a knife for peeling vegetables, tools for working with marzipan (can be bought at pastry shops) – optional small cuttings for cookies in the form of leaves, small brushes.
Potatoes
Dial 1 tbsp. l without a slide of marzipan and form between the palms potato tuber. Using bamboo skewers or other make the eyes on the tuber of the instrument, and then roll it into a small amount of cocoa powder (to simulate dirt), shaking off surplus.
Pumpkin
Add a little orange dye to 1 tbsp. l marzipan and intervene him. Between the palms, roll a ball from marzipan, and then flatten it a little. Using the blunt side of a knife or tool for marzipan draw lines on a pumpkin. Add some cocoa powder or brown dye in a small amount of marzipan and roll up a thin rope. Cut small a piece and squeeze to the pumpkin to get the stem, and the remaining wind a part of the “rope” around a bamboo skewer, gently pull out the skewer, and press the spiral next to the stem, to make a mustache.
Pear or Apple
Add some yellow or green (or both colors) dye. in 1 tbsp. l marzipan, mix in the dye and roll between your palms ball. If you make a pear, give the marzipan a pear shape. Break off a slice of raw whole-wheat spaghetti and paste the stem, and from the bottom, insert the whole clove. Add apples and pears blush. Dilute a little contrast dye colors (red or orange) in a small amount of alcohol or water and grease them with fruit.
Leaves
Add some green food coloring to marzipan and mix. him. Roll marzipan as thin as possible and cut leaves desired shape. Using bamboo skewers or blunt sides draw a knife on the leaves of the vein. You can bend and pinch leaves to give them realism. Put them on a tray to dry, or while the leaves are still soft, press them to Fruits. Leave the marzipan fruits and vegetables to freeze in the air. for 12 hours, then transfer to a sealed container. They can store up to 2 weeks. Recipes with similar ingredients: Almond paste
