Marzipan fruit

Homemade fresh marzipan is so much tastier than store bought and surprisingly easy to make. This recipe is a must on my holiday table feast!

Letitia on Instagram: "Marzipan fruit season! 🍒🍋 I post these every Christmas (these ones from 2021 - a good year for marzipan fruits as documented in #dolce) and this year I will make them too (want to do my favourite types of fig and a blood orange and grapefruit, porcini and prickly pears). All you need is marzipan, edible paint and some cloves and poppy seeds for hours of coloured and sticky fun. Pic 2 by @charlottebland from Dolce 🎈"

Follow my step by step guides to making your own homemade marzipan fruits this Christmas. They're easier to make than you might think.

Marzipan decorations are a wonderful way of adding colorful and delicious accents to holiday tables

Marzipan is one of the most significant traditions in my family. Every year for Christmas my mother and aunt Estelle would spend hours shaping and painting the most stunning marzipan fruit – …

Letitia on Instagram: "Mum and my capolavoro - marzipan fruits or frutta di Martorana, the best use of food dye and poppy seeds and the most fun (and sticky) thing to make for your family this Christmas. You can easily make your own marzipan, they are cheap and cheerful and once dried keep forever. Recipe, history and thoughts all in #dolce 🍊🍋🍉🍎🍌🍓🍇"

Miniature Marzipan fruits are a traditional Christmas treat and they’re actually pretty simple to make yourself, using our Natural Flavoured Icing Sugars.

Start with our marzipan recipe and then use it like playdough to create figures, characters, and other cake decorating or gingerbread house accessories.