Marzipan Buttercream

Marzipan Buttercream – The ultimate icing for any marzipan fans. Perfect for topping your Christmas cake or mince pies.

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It’s day 4 of Festive Buttercream Week and today’s recipe is Marzipan Buttercream.

My husband and my Dad are both huge marzipan fans, so I wanted to create a recipe using one of their favourite flavours. It includes lots of real marzipan, as well as a few drops of almond extract to really bring out the flavour. It would make a fantastic alternative to using marzipan under your icing on your Christmas cake, or a little piped on top of your mince pies.

As buttercreams go this one takes a little (but only a little) more effort than some of my other recipes to ensure that the inclusion of the marzipan doesn’t leave any little lumps. To get it really smooth I beat it as usual in a mixer and then, once everything is combined, I take a few spoonfuls at a time and blitz them with a hand blender. This is actually a great little trick if you find you’ve got slightly lumpy buttercream (whatever the flavour) as a quick blitz is a brilliant way of getting your buttercream really smooth.

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Marzipan Buttercream

Marzipan Buttercream – The ultimate icing for any marzipan fans. Perfect for topping your Christmas cake or mince pies.

Active Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Servings 12 servings

Ingredients

• 320 g icing sugar
• 215 g butter - soft at room temperature
• 215 g marzipan
• 4 tsp cold water
• A few drops of almond extract
• A little milk

Instructions

• Cut your marzipan (215g) into cubes and put it into a bowl. Add the water (4 tsp) and knead the marzipan into the water until most of the water has been absorbed into the marzipan (the idea here is to soften the marzipan so it's easier to beat into the buttercream).
• Cut your butter (215g) into cubes and beat with an electric mixer on a slow speed until soft.
• Add the icing sugar (320g) and beat it into the butter until fully combined. I find it best to add it a little at a time to stop it flying all over the kitchen.
• Once the butter and sugar are combined, add the softened marzipan and almond extract (a few drops) and again beat until fully combined.
• If you find you have some small lumps of marzipan then you'll need to give the buttercream a quick blitz with a hand blender. Put a few spoonfuls into a bowl, blend until smooth and then repeat until all of the buttercream has been blended.
• Check the consistency of your buttercream. If it's a little to thick to be piped then add a little milk (no more than a tsp at a time) and mix to combine. Keep adding a little more until the consistency it right.
• Your buttercream is now ready to use.

Notes

Makes enough for 12 cupcakes or to cover and fill a 20cm layer cake.

Take a look at my mix-and-match cupcake index to find lots of different flavour cupcake sponges to serve this on, as well as lots of other buttercream recipe inspiration.

Nutritional Information

Author: Charlotte Oates

Keyword: Christmas

Nutritional Information

Calories: 318kcal | Carbohydrates: 39.4g | Protein: 1.2g | Fat: 17.2g | Saturated Fat: 9.5g | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 38.4g

Any nutritional information shown is the estimated nutritional information per serving. Please refer to my guide to Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen nutritional information if you want to learn more about how this is calculated.

This is the estimated nutritional information per serving (for the cupcake only). Please refer to my guide to Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen nutritional information if you want to learn more about how this is calculated.