Marzipan potatoes - simple and different
Somehow I was caught right in time for Midsummer the Christmas flash - but I am, like Rolf Zuckowski already sang, a winter child. The new idea - simple marzipan potatoes in a different way - is a result of this Christmas flash and born of necessity: I wanted to produce a larger amount of marzipan potatoes at a hospital station to my Austand at the end of a training period. It was December. How did I do that?
First, I got several packages of raw marzipan. Then I realized that I did not have enough cocoa powder at home. So I took all the cocoa powder that I found and poured it together with some cinnamon powder, ginger powder and a small amount of ground cardamom into a T * pp * r box and mixed well.
Then I processed the raw marzipan into balls about the size of a thumbnail. Annoyed has only that the marzipan sticks to the hands over time. Remedy? Cool the marzipan well and scrub your hands again and again.
I then added the balls to the powder mixture in the T * pp * r box, sealed them and then shaken them and turned them back and forth until all marzipan potatoes were covered with the powder mixture. Now all I had to do was separate and package the finished potatoes from the excess powder.
Thus, I had marzipan potatoes with a believable outer layer that tasted even spicier Christmassy, unlike the commercial, the "only" taste of marzipan and cocoa.
The remaining powder can be finely sieved and picked up again, e.g. as an ingredient for a Christmas flavored hot chocolate.
