SO. It has come to my attention that some of you don’t know what marzipan is… CAN THAT BE TRUE? And, if you don’t know what marzipan is, you probably have no idea why in hell this blog is named Medicinal Marzipan. Also, it has come to my attention that I missed (!!!) national Marzipan Day, which was January 12th. I feel like the worst blog mommy.
What is marzipan?
Marzipan is a confection of crushed almonds or almond paste, sugar, and egg whites that is can be shaped into near about anything. It is delicious. When I was a child, we would travel to Germany often to visit my father’s family, and our absolute favorite thing in the world was to take the bus into the city and go to Cafe Kleimann (in picture) and buy a million marzipan figurines to bring back to the states. I first fell in love with marzipan and this Cafe because when you walk under these arches you peer into the windows and in the huge glass windows resides an entire marzipan kingdom! I will attest that this cafe makes the most lush and delicious and beautiful and realistic marzipan that I have ever seen. Example:
As I already specified, marzipan can be shaped into all manner of objects. This entire post came about when found myself upon the Dean and Deluca website looking at their Valentine’s day offerings and I found THESE adorable marzipan couples, the idea being that they are giving away their hearts. And, man, am I a sucker for Valentine’s Day.
After I found that, I decided that it would be an excellent use of time to find you some other prime marzipan examples, and I came upon Rebecca Russell’s marzipan wedding toppers. And kill me they are cute.
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