Name: Marzipan and Almond Twists
Yield: Makes 9
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz/1 cup ground almonds; 30 ml/2 tbsp skimmed milk powder (non fat dry milk); 1 egg, separated; 10 ml/2 tsp milk; 60 ml/4 tbsp Amaretto liqueur; 350 g/12 oz/3 cups unbleached white bread flour; 2—3 drops of almond essence (extract); 1 egg; 90 ml/6 tbsp water; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp easy bake (rapid-rise) dried yeast; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup butter, melted; 2.5 ml/½ tsp salt; flaked (sliced) almonds, for sprinkling; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup icing (confectioners’) sugar; 40 g/1½ oz/3 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Makes
9

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

About

If you like almonds, you’ll love these. Amaretto liqueur, marzipan and flaked almonds make up a triple whammy.

Ingredients

90 ml/6 tbsp water
1 egg
60

Method

Pour the water, egg and Amaretto into the bread machine pan. If the instructions for your machine specify that the yeast is to be placed in the pan first, reverse the order in which you add the liquid and dry ingredients.
Sprinkle