Kind Of Flower Used In Marzipan. This is when Italians started adding almonds to bread and pizza and making sweet marzipan. Almond Paste Makes approximately 1 pound 2 cups whole almonds preferably Mission.
Fondant is made from sugar and gelatin so it tends to dry out easily as you roll it. However tuberose jasmin jonquils violets and roses were also used to create many confectionery items. Almond Paste Makes approximately 1 pound 2 cups whole almonds preferably Mission.
I use an old coffee mill 1964 Inventum and that really works well.
Sometimes flavors like rosewater almond extract or vanilla are also added. As legend has it marzipan was invented in Italy in a year of especially bad harvest when at certain point the only remaining product was almond. Fondant is made from sugar and gelatin so it tends to dry out easily as you roll it. Marzipan has a sweet and long history closely related to advent of almonds the primary component of marzipan.