Marzipan

Quick meaning: Marzipan is a noun meaning A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

Meaning

A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

More Meanings

1. A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.
2. (countable) A piece of such a confection.
3. (transitive) To cover with marzipan.

Example Sentences

a marzipanned cake

Hazelnut marzipan. Hazelnuts are used as an alternative to almonds, ground together in a proportion from 11⁄2 to 2 parts nuts to sugar. Almonds may be mixed in according to taste.

In one hand she held a handkerchief, and in the other she held two cherry-shaped marzipans. Rosalia smiled when she saw the marzipans and took them and the handkerchief from Madre Carmela.

[…] cookie mini pack, watermelon Bubble Yum or, my favorite, de la Rosa, a peanut marzipan round packaged in a cellophane wrapper with a delicate rose printed on it. De la Rosa is a perfect confection. Just crumbly enough, just sweet enough […]

Word Forms

• marzipans
• marchpane
• marzipanning
• marzipanned

Synonyms for marzipan

Depending on context, synonyms include marchpane.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include marchpane, persipan, pastillage, remonce, macaron, marshmallow.

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