Hi everyone
So yesterday we made our amazing grain free, sugar free, gluten free
Free from everything type cake
Today, I'm going to decorate it
And to decorate it in such a lovely style, we're going to be using sugar free marzipan
Which I'm, you know in some kind of amazing Blue Peter fashion
about to pull out of a cupboard
No, I clearly just you know
made it
Four days ago.
It's fine, it's fine
This year I've decided I'm going to do something completely different
I've made a cake I can eat.
I'm going to make beautiful decorations that I can eat
Out of marzipan Sugar free marzipan.
Yes, it's happening
It's happening right now
You will need three hundred grams of ground almonds
You will then need three hundred grams equivalent to sugar in whatever sweetener form you choose
Now, I am using Splenda because ruddy love Splenda
And Splenda, you move the decimal place
So five grams of sugar becomes 0.5 grams of Splenda
So, I need three hundred grams of "sugar" so I should therefore only need thirty grams of Splenda
There we go
Thirty grams of Splenda
Excellent
Then, this is quite good, you get some warm water. Thirty grams of warm water
I know, grams, water, it's very confusing
The point is, you need one tenth of the weight of water
Of the ground almonds that you have got. Yes
So I actually weighed this with my scales, which obviously work
Sugar substitute, into the water, mix that up
Then mix together the rest of the sweetener with the ground almonds
and a little capful
A little capful of almond extract
If you haven't already dropped the cap into your baking
Oh, it's going well for me today
Cor, it smells ruddy good though
Ah.. I love the smell of almonds. Who doesn't love almonds?
Ok, we're gonna add our sugar syrup in
Give it a nice little mix around
I'm sure anyone, any home bakers watching
Or anyone who's seen the Great British Bake Off
Will be like 'Jessica, what are you doing? That's not how your make marzipan, get your hands in there'
I never take off my engagement ring,
unless it's to rub my wife's feet
Which I do
So when I say 'never take it off' I actually take it off every single night
I'm just a good wife
And here we have
A ball of marzipan!
I should point out our marzipan is actually amazing and I'm a bit obsessed with decorating with it
Because I once managed to get out of a book report by making every single character out of A Room With A View out of marzipan
I have to wrap this in cling film and put it in the fridge for an hour