Morning
all,
Here
is a recipe using the home made marzipan, the Marzipan Filled Pastry
Christmas Wreath.
This is traditionally eaten in The Netherlands at
Christmas.
Christmas Pastry Wreath
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
- Glaced 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 out in a strip which is slightly smaller in length than
the pastry strip.
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. (this is
why the strip of marzipan should be shorter than the strip of pastry)
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 warm apricot jam on top of the wreath and add
decorations (the jam acts as glue).
Ready
and ENJOY!
Love,
Jo.
