Howdy!!! Wondering if anybody has produced successfully almond paste at home and has a good recipe. I do own a Kenwood Major stand mixer and a food processor, greek almonds are fantastic and cheap, but I have a premonition it could be somehow tricky. In Greece we have french almond paste at delis but a more careful look at the label gave me the creeps(too many chemicals).To make it worse it's cloyingly sweet.
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Almond paste is usually very sweet. The recipe I use every xmas is as follows:
200g icing sugar 200g caster sugar (or you could use icing sugar for a smoother paste) 400g ground almonds 1 egg, lightly beaten 2.5ml/1/2tsp almond or vanilla essence (Optional - I leave them out) Lemon juiceSift the sugars into a bowl and add the rest of the ingredients with enough lemon juice to make a firm but manageable dough. Knead until smooth. If your eggs are very large, you may have to add extra almonds and/or sugar - it's not critical. I usually buy ground almonds for this but I have blanched and skinned whole almonds before putting them through a meat grinder. I suppose you could use the food processor to grind them.
HTH Graham
"graham"
in italy we use a particular kind of almond, the *mandorla amara*. You can obtain a simil flavour with apricot's nuts, knowed in Italy as "armelline". Hello. :-)
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They have to be treated to remove the prussic acid. Apricot nuts are exported by Australia for treatment before turning them into artificial almond paste/marzipan. Graham
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