Christmas Tree Pastries

These are year-round pastries that are decorated at Christmastime, just like we do with real trees. They are a variation of the recipe for Angelica Points which appears in The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry. These, however, are cut into a more elongated triangle and covered with green marzipan rather than untinted. The decoration used here can be applied to other pastries and to larger cakes as well to give them an instant holiday air. Just as the triangu