icing/marzipan-ing my first christmas cake

Maelstrom_2

Freaking marzipan has been IMPOSSIBLE to find.
Ended up buying that Dr Oetzer stuff at twice the price of Asda after the shelves were empty at Tesco and Sainsburys.

Jolaaled

Have used up just half of my Tesco marzipan block.

I would love to try and make some truffley-type sweets with the remainder..does anyone have recipe please??

thanks

Penelope_Penguin

** Proud mother alert ** DS 15yo has made both marzipan and Royal icing from scratch, and decorated our cake (which he also baked himself) :T

I'll add this to the existing thread, to keep ideas together.

Dustykitten

Well done to DS PenPen - can we have a picture? DS has done the marzipan (will try making our own next year) and the icing will be tomorrow but we have bought this too. We need silver balls, none in waitrose so I'll try the corner shop in the morning. Only our second year of making the cake so I think we are doing quite well.

Penelope_Penguin

Dustykitten wrote: »

Well done to DS PenPen - can we have a picture?

Sure thing! I'll take a pic today, but uploading may have to wait a day or two - have you seen what I still have on my list :eek::rotfl: