marzipan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.
2. isim A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.

   “Place the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and grill […] then grind finely […] then add the caster sugar and ground hazelnuts [to egg whites] and mix to a stiff marzipan paste. Sandwich the pecan nuts together in pairs with a little of the hazelnut marzipan.”

3. isim A piece of such a confection.

   “One afternoon not long afterwards you waited byher bedside as she swam through anesthetic. A box of cherry chocolates and a dozen roses in your lap. Cherry chocolates and chocolate-covered marzipans. Then you drove her home. Chocolate-covered marzipans being her favorite.”

4. fiil To cover with marzipan.

   “a marzipanned cake”