Marzipan Children for the Traditional Gingerbread House

If you work regularly with marzipan, you probably have a supply of tinted portions on hand, in which case you can ignore the instructions here for tinting the small pieces. If you do not, my recommendation is to tint a base supply, using food coloring to make red, yellow, and green shades and cocoa powder for a brown shade. Keep these on hand for future projects, adjusting and mixing the colors as needed. Although red and green can be combined to make brown, cocoa powder gives the marzipan