Another recipe, Marzipan Filled Pastry Christmas Wreath

Now it’s time for the first recipe using the home made marzipan, the Marzipan Filled Pastry Christmas Wreath. This is traditionally eaten in The Netherlands at Christmas.

You can find the recipe for the marzipan here.



For this recipe you need:

Home made marzipan
Puff pastry (about 350-375 grams)
1 egg
Apricot jam
Glace cherries
Edible decorations (like chocolate santas, marzipan figures, chocolate holly leaves, etc)

This recipe is relatively easy (provided you don’t elect to make the puff pastry yourself, which is very time consuming).

All you need to do is:

Roll out the puff pastry into a strip of around 8 cm wide. (or get ready rolled)



Roll the marzipan in a strip slightly smaller in length.





Place the marzipan on top of the puff pastry, lining it up to the edge of the pastry on one side and leaving a bit of room on the other end. (be prepared to lick your fingers after as this is very sticky work, yum yum)



Wet one side of the pastry with some water (to allow it to stick to the other side), roll it up around the marzipan and stick the pastry together.



Form the filled roll to meet at both ends, put the filled end in the open end (and stick pastry together) and make it into a circle.

Spread beaten egg over it, place the wreath on a wet (water) baking tray and leave it for 15 minutes.

Place in a preheated oven at 200 Celsius for 40 minutes.



Leave to cool, then spread heated apricot jam on top of the wreath and add decorations.







Ready and ENJOY!

Love,

Jo.