questions about marzipan

[Becky McEllistrem <beckymc@microsoft.com>]

Poster: Becky McEllistrem <beckymc@MICROSOFT.com>

I was watching some cooking shows and found some ideas for sculpting "fruit" using marzipan. 
Basically they were rolling marzipan dough into fruit shapes then using food coloring for the various
colors of the items.  I'm not sure this is terribly period but I  was really thrilled with the idea and was 
thinking about doing some for various upcoming events.  My main question is how far ahead can
you make marzipan items and still have them be edible?  Can you actually do something several 
days ahead?  What is the best way to store it?  If you're trying to use molds of some sort for making 
people,  are there any good locations for finding said molds?


Rebecca




 
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