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Golden Marzipan
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Golden marzipan keeps more almond-skin warmth or is made with a toasted or unblanched note, so the paste is ivory-gold rather than wedding-white. The flavour is rounder and more nutty, which is what you want in a stollen loaf, a simnel disc, or a chocolate-dipped bite. It will tint a pale icing if you use it as an undercoat. It is not inferior white marzipan; it is a flavour choice. A muddy brown paste may be over-toasted or cut with kernels. Use it where the marzipan will be tasted, not where it must photograph as snow.
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Older marzipans were naturally golden from less aggressive blanching and more almond.
British simnel and stollen traditions kept a golden marzipan disc and loaf coat.
Golden "raw" or rustic marzipans were sold against snow-white modelling pastes.
Bake-off and stollen seasons made golden marzipan a yearly grocery spike.