Marzipan Fruits and Vegetables

These marzipan fruits are fun and easy to make for the novice marzipan-modeller, and are a good introduction to marzipan for children. Here we make carrots, strawberries and peaches, but there are many other fruits and vegetables you could make. Use fronds from the tops of real carrots as decoration, or little pieces of dill. The peaches are beautiful with coloured dust brushed on to look like a ‘blush’. To create the texture on the strawberries you can use a miniature box grater as used fo