How To Make Marzipan Leaves

Hello, I'm Annabelle and I'm Billie and we're from Confection Perfection in Maidstone based in Kent. We're experts in all aspects of cake decorating, and today, we're going to be showing you a bit about marzipan and cake decorating. This is how to make marzipan leaves.

You need to colour some marzipan green. You can't use liquid colours because they affect the consistency of the marzipan, it becomes very sticky, so you need to use concentrated paste colour. Add it with cocktail stick and knead it through your marzipan.

To stop your marzipan sticking to your work surface, dust with icing sugar, and then you want to roll your marzipan fairly thinly. The most effective cutters to use are the plunger cutters which also act as a vainer, so they put realistic detail onto the leaves. Once you've rolled your marzipan fairly thinly, you have to cut the leaf first.

Once you've cut the leaf out, you then press down with a plunger and as you press down, that's what gives you the veining detail and there you have an ivy leaf. These work well in conjunction with marzipan flowers or marzipan roses and you can just bend the leaves into an attractive shape. So, you cut first and then press down to get the veining detail.

You can make ivy leaves, rose leaves, so you cut first press down to achieve the veining detail and then bend the leaf into a nice shape. You can also make holly leaves, so you cut first, press down, and bend it into a nice shape. And that's how to make marzipan leaves. .