If you are in a surplus situation of marzipan after Christmas I would suggest, that you try to make your own marzipan cake (kransekage) for the fast approaching New Year 2011. Home-made marzipan cake just taste so much better compared to the cakes, which you find in the supermarkets or at the baker´s shop.
Another benefit of making your own marzipan cake is, that you can control the sweetness in the final cake and hereby adjust it to your preferred sweetness level. I find the sweetness level to be too high in the marzipan cake, which you are buying in the shops.
And please remember to serve the marzipan cake with a sweet type of champagne or sparkling wine, as the combination of sweet marzipan cake and dry sparkling wine is a taste killer.
My first suggestion to you on the "classic" type of marzipan cake could be these zebra marzipan cake
made from either the plain marzipan or the cocoa marzipan.
Another good tasting marzipan cake could be these
marzipan orange cakes or with an extra little twist in of orange flower as here marzipan orange cakes with orange flower.
These baked marzipan confect is my final suggestion to you to try at New Year´s eve tomorrow.
