How To Use Marzipan Molds

This is how to use marzipan molds. There are many different molds available and they all work in the same way. The first thing you want to do is colour your marzipan.

You mustn't use a liquid colour. This affects the consistency and it will make your marzipan too sticky. Use a paste colour, add a little bit of cocktail stick and knead the colour through until it's evenly blended.

With all the molds, take a small ball of paste, roll it into a ball first, and you want to try and guess the amount of paste that you need. Dust the ball of paste generously with icing sugar to stop it from sticking. This mold is a longer shape so I'm just going to shape it into more of a sausage shape and then press the paste in.

You need to press down quite firmly because that will give you the detail of the mold and then you turn the shape out, and there you have a little duck. Teddy bears, again, would work in the same way. You take a ball of paste, roll it into a ball and dust it generously with icing sugar and then press that into the mold.

If you've got too much paste to fit in to the mold, you mustn't cut the excess off with a knife because it would damage the mold. Instead, you take the paste out, break off the excess, roll the paste into a ball, dust it with icing sugar and then press the paste into the mold. Work the paste around with your fingers so that it fills the mold.

If you've got a little bit too much, you can pinch that off the back. Make sure that it's all within the mold. You don't want any bits of paste hanging over the edge because that would distort the shape and then flex the mold to turn your shape out, and there's a little teddy bear.

With shells, you can create a marbled effect by mixing different coloured marzipans together. So, start off with a bit of neutral colour of marzipan, add small pieces of some colours. I've got a bit of brown here.

I'm going to add a small amount or red, not too much. I've added small amounts of red and now I'm going to add little pieces of orange into the paste and I'm spreading the different colours out. And I'll put a tiny bit of green in, so adding tiny bits of green, and then you want to knead the colours through the marzipan and stop whilst it's still a bit streaky and this gives a very effective marbled look which suits things like shells particularly well.

So, you can see that the colours are marbled through. Process is still exactly the same. You roll the paste into a ball, dust it generously with icing sugar to stop it sticking and then press the shape into the mold.

So, you press nice and firmly and then turn the shell out like that. Now, they look very effective left like that or you can add some extra colour to them. The easiest way to add colour is using the dust colours.

So, I normally put the shapes on a piece of kitchen roll. You want to use a flat dusting brush and with the duckling, I'm going to add a little bit of yellow and a little bit of brown, so I'm going to dust the colour on the end of the brush, knock the extra off onto the kitchen roll, and then just dust gently over the top and the colour, not only does it add a bit of colour to it but it also accentuates the detail on the mold and makes it look a lot prettier. The brown obviously is a darker colour so I'm going to add just a tiny bit, knocking the extra off onto the kitchen roll, and then gently brushing over the top.

With the bear, I'm about to start a little bit of brown to his body and make his snout slightly darker and put the rest of his head, and if you wanted to, you could add some extra colour. Add a little bit of pink on the teddy's bow. Let's put the brush into the colour, knock the extra off and then dust it over the top.

And again, you could leave those how they are. You can spray the molds with an edible glaze. It adds the sheen to it and it also extends the heating time of your shapes.

So that the glaze doesn't go away, it's better to spray in a box