Marzipan cookies is an easy recipe to prepare for your family
ingredients
2 scant cups/200 g ground almonds
7/8 cup/200 g sugar
3 egg whites
Seeds from 1 vanilla pod
About 20 almond halves
instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 °F( 180 °C). Mix the ground almonds and sugar together a bowl.
Lightly beat the egg whites and mix in the vanilla seeds.
Stirring constantly, add the egg whites very gradually to the almond mixture a little at a time.
The resulting mixture should be fairly firm and stiff. Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag with a starshaped tip and pipe about 20 small mounds of mixture onto a greased baking sheet.
Decorate each one with half an almond and bake in a preheated oven until the peaks are golden brown. The cookies will keep for quite a long time in an airtight container.
It is customary in some regions to give each guest at a wedding or baptism a marzipa flower rosette, a symbol of purity and femininity.
It used to be the women's task to make these and they would gather prior to the celebration to turn pounds of almond sugar, and oil of roses into marzipan which would later be molded into rosettes.
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