Pistachio and Cardamom Marzipan
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Makes about 20-25 pieces
Ingredients
  • 300g pistachios
  • 6 cardamom pods
  • 90g golden brown sugar or 150g icing sugar (see description)
  • 1 orange
  • 50g dark chocolate
Instructions
  1. First, make your powdered sugar. Put golden brown sugar into your high powered blender. Break open cardamom pods and add the seeds to the blender. Make sure the lid is on TIGHT and blast for about a minute, until you have icing sugar consistency infused with that incredible cardamom scent. Tip into a big mixing bowl.
  2. Next, blend almost all of your pistachios in the same blender until you have a "ground almond" consistency - very uniform tiny pieces. Add to the bowl with the sugar.
  3. Zest your orange into the mixture, then cut it in half and squeeze a little of the juice into the mix. Start to combine with your hands, which will get the oils out of the pistachios. Keep adding juice a tiny bit at a time, until you have a workable mixture.
  4. Roll into little balls and place close together on baking parchment.
  5. Melt your dark chocolate and pour it into a plastic sandwich bag.
  6. Cut a minute nick in the corner of the bag and drizzle all over the marzipan pieces. Finish off with a dusting of the leftover pistachios.
Recipe by Veggie Runners at https://www.veggierunners.com/2015/12/11/pistachio-and-cardamom-marzipan/