1 Home-made marzipan has a better flavour than most shop-bought varieties.

2 Divide the marzipan into portions and colour them pale pink and green.

3 It yielded nothing but a small ball of marzipan and a set of perfect tyre-tracks in the dust.

4 Lift marzipan over cake and smooth down, easing out folds.

5 Dampen the marzipan with water and position the squares, as shown.

6 Use the remaining marzipan to model a head with a long neck.

7 Brush cake with strained apricot jam and place marzipan on top.

8 Roll out marzipan to a round large enough to cover the cake.

9 Knead the fondant or marzipan thoroughly, using a circular motion to spread the colour evenly.

10 Colour a little more fondant or marzipan yellow and roll into two tapering sausages.

11 The recipe here is for a simple marzipan that needs no cooking.

12 Little marzipan carrots are the traditional decoration.

13 A third of upper-middle managers are now women—"the marzipan layer"—she notes.

14 Apple pie with amaretto and marzipan had a rich aroma that complemented the tapioca creme and wine-soaked pears.

15 Beat marzipan paste, butter and powdered sugar with an electric mixer for 3 minute or until well combined.

16 The nose is remarkably intense showing marzipan, boiled raspberry drop, water cracker and vanilla bean.

17 Spread rest of smaller cake with jam and cover with remaining marzipan, as before.

18 Spread a little buttercream over the centre of the marzipan circle and place the second cake on top of this.

19 It's then covered in a generous layer of almond marzipan and finally topped with a layer of melt-in-the-mouth soft-eating Regal ice.

20 One night I promised myself a hot water bottle, a basket of marzipan fruits and a video.

21 Brush the whole cake with apricot glaze, then roll out the remaining marzipan to a large circle to cover.

22 Paste colour provides a rich intense shade without thinning down the fondant and marzipan as with liquids.

23 I needed to buy butter, eggs, orange and lemon zest, and eventually icing and marzipan separately – which is a fair old shopping list.

24 One drinker described the treat as having the smell of cleanscrubbed skin, sandy earth, stone fruit and raw almonds, with the aroma of marzipan.

25 Roast suckling pig is served for New Year's in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Austria—Austrians are also known to decorate the table with miniature pigs made of marzipan.

26 Mix butter, eggs, vanilla sugar and sugar in a mixing bowl until well combined. Add the marzipan and continue to stir until smooth.

27 Gandour is established as a factory store in Lebanon. The Initial product lines are Hard Boiled Candies, Loukoum and Marzipan.

28 Christmas markets are traditional in Germany and Central Europe, where you'll find all kinds of Christmas goodies on sale - gingerbread, gluhwein, marzipan stollen, Christmas decorations.

29 Special features of this year's gingerbread house include a shadow box view of the State Dining Room and marzipan renderings of the vegetable garden and our favorite four-pawed friend, Bo.

30 We also produce different raw materials made with almonds: pastes, pralines , crocants, raw marzipan, etc.

31 An initial aroma of honey with hints of lemon and lime. A rich buttery and roasted hazelnut bouquet with hints of nougat, marzipan and white chocolate.

32 Sugar, syrup, julep, sherbet, and marzipan are all Arabic in origin, though none of them would have featured on the grocery list of an Elizabethan housewife.

33 Slightly more obscure, the firm has come up with "a very special taste sensation", a the filling that is a blend of fresh creamed asparagus soup enriched with nougat, marzipan and chocolate.

34 Princess Diana's five-foot tall cake, adorned with marzipan Windsor coats of arms, was so vital to the royal union that two copies were made, the extra serving as a stunt double in case of accidents.

35 The fruit was made of marzipan, and the shops sold either designer wear or crossbows.

36 On her saint day ( 5 February) in Sicily, little marzipan confections resembling breasts are still eaten today.