Using up leftover marzipan & fondant icing

littlesnuggy

Anyone got any bright ideas for using up leftover marzipan & fondant (ready to roll) icing? I finally got round to decorating my Christmas cake last night and there's loads leftover. It's already out of date (shhh!) so I'd rather get it used up as I still have a small ball of marzipan lurking in the freezer from last year.

I've got about a tennis ball-size of marzipan and about 2 tennis balls of icing!

Don't particularly want to buy lots more ingredients just to use it up, plus I've already baked mince pies & lebkuchen. Found these marzipan reindeer when searching online but not sure I have the time/inclination to faff with them http://www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk/2011/12/reindeer-cake-pops.html

jamanda

I don't know about the icing, but I make marzipan into little balls and then dip in melted chocolate. Chuck a cherry on top if you have any. My mum loves them

Bitsy_Beans

I've made this cake before you might be able to freeze it if you can't bear more cake at this time of year. ETA the actual link http://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-chip-marzipan-cake-136389

As for the fondant how about making some cupcakes and using a round cutter ice the tops of the cupcakes.

I make fondant snowmen last night for my mums Christmas cake

meg72

My kids used to use up the left overs when they were little. They loved to make fruit, tiny apples, pears, oranges and bananas. All you need is food colouring.

littlesnuggy

I decided to make the marzipan reindeers linked in the first post as I only needed pretzels. I got chocolate-coated ones, used marzipan for the heads, Basics dark chocolate, some of the fondant icing for the eyes (with chocolate eyeballs) and a red writing icing I had leftover from a birthday cake

Tadaaaaaaaaaaaa!

meritaten

yeah I would say make sweets too!
as another poster says marzipan is lovely with chocolate. try rolling it out a quarter inch thick into a square, scatter some chopped almonds (or any nut) over and pour melted choc over. leave to harden and cut into squares.
or if you have a box of dates handy - take out all the stone and stuff the dates with marzipan - I like to sprinkle them with demerara sugar.
fondant icing - you can add a couple of drops of peppermint essence or lemon or rose or whatever flavour, knead well - cut into circles and leave to dry overnight. next day dip in chocolate!

eliviajen

We made figures using walnut whips as the base for there bodies, with our leftovers at cake decorating course last night!

you prise the nut off the top and make a little hole in the top which you then pop a matchmaker chocolate twig to support the head - you simply cover the walnut whip with regal icing , make a ball for a head and then model however you choose...

I made a snowman, a robin, a choirboy and a penguin for my daughters teachers for gifts and it took me alot less than half an hour for the four - it might help to google for images of "walnut whip snowman"

Alternatively you can freeze icing for another time if you dont have a use for it!

VJsmum

This recipe is from Softstuff

Fruit Mincemeat Drops

100g melted butter
1/2 cup raw sugar (or ordinary granulated)
3/4 cup self raising flour
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Mix these well, until it forms a dough. Roll ping pong ball sized pieces, thensmush them down on the baking tray with your finger to make an indent. Fill thelittle indent with a teaspoon of fruit mincemeat. Bake for 15 minutes at 180.

You can of course fill the indent with jam, or lemon curd, or honey. Or you canswitch the vanilla essence for almond essence and pop a ball of marzipan in theindent.