How to make marzipan delights

Make marzipan delights to add sweet yet personal touch to your Christmas gift baskets or to place them on the Christmas Cake. Here's how:

Ingredients for the marzipan delights: 

For the dough:

Icing sugar - 200 gm, sifted
Almonds  / cashew nuts - 150 gm, grounded
Egg whites - 1
Vanilla essence - 2 drops
Lemon juice - 1/2 tsp

For the snowmen:

Red color - few drops
Black color - few drops

Method for Marzipan delights:

Sift the icing sugar and mix well with the grounded almond or cashew paste.

Add to this egg white, vanilla essence and lemon juice. Bind it into a stiff dough.

Knead the dough well and wrap the dough in plastic cling.

Refrigerate sealed for future use.

To use, let the dough stand to attain normal room temperature. Knead well to smooth dough.

Divide the dough into equal portions and use them as required.

For making 1 snowman, you need 2 portions of dough rolled in balls. Place 1 ball on top of the other.

To decorate the snowman, make use of 1 dough. Break off the fourth of the dough and color one portion into red color and one portion with black.

Roll the red portion into thin noodle and wrap this around the snow man's head to resemble a scarf.

Similarly flatten a tiny ball of red dough into small coin shape and place on the top of the head to resemble a cap.

Make small dot shaped balls of black dough and stick them for eyes, as well as 1 dot for snow man's shirt button.