How to Use marzipan in a Sentence

marzipan

noun
  • Trim any excess marzipan and cut a very thin slice off each end of the cake for a neat edge.
    — Becky Krystal, sacbee.com, 2 May 2017
  • Press the marzipan neatly around the cake so the seam ends up at one corner.
    — Becky Krystal, sacbee.com, 2 May 2017
  • Deep orange gold; aromas of caramel, toast and a hints of marzipan and scotch whisky.
    — Tom Hyland, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Pop the finished marzipan carrots in the fridge overnight while the cake can sit tightly wrapped on the counter overnight.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The local sweet to try is Pesce di Natale, a marzipan dessert shaped like a fish.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • No stacking the layers and draping the marzipan over the top (in my opinion, the scary part).
    — Nicola Lamb, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Swap the marzipan out for chocolate chips for a nut-free alternative.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The whisky opens with the scent of dark cherries, raisins, and Brazil-nut toffee, touched with marzipan and date caramel.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Dessert specials include a marzipan vanilla torte with fresh berries, and a warm dark and white chocolate torte served with ice cream.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • It’s then blanketed with a sheet of (usually green) marzipan.
    — Zoe Li, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • There are spice notes of cloves, white pepper, licorice, marzipan, hazelnut, walnut, and rum-raisin toffee.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The pits end up as an amaretto riff, which lends a nutty, marzipan note to Civil Pours’ whiskey sour.
    — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Penner feels the heart of the market is a 30-foot-long set of tables holding the fruit bread iced with marzipan.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The cherry pie features a layer of marzipan and a golden crumble topping.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The flavors and aromas of almond extract resemble marzipan more than raw nuts.
    — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The almond croissant, topped with marzipan and filled with almond paste that goes down smoothly, should become a menu favorite.
    — Brian Josephs, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The nuts from Hall’s trees have an intense flavor – too intense for some palates – akin to that of almond extract or marzipan.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
  • This city is the birthplace of marzipan, invented by nuns as early as the 1500s.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Six aluminum plates on the walls, engraved with fragments of not-quite-intelligible text, are filled in with marzipan.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Almonds from Ghouta were ground and blended with chocolate for ganache, or flavoured with rose water to make marzipan roses.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • This one offers notes of coffee, cola, marzipan and honey, and is dense and creamy with 15 percent alcohol.
    — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The palate features similar flavors with roasted apricot, marzipan, and banana notes.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • At a school board meeting Grace hands out cupcakes with blood-red fillings decorated with a marzipan sanitary pad on top.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The aroma is very spicy, rummy, and definitely the best smelling of the six with aromas of cinnamon stick, banana bread, and marzipan.
    — Em Sauter, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Ice cream cones are a summertime example, while desserts served in edible marzipan cups date to at least the 18th century.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • European classics like the Mozartkugel — a ball of pistachio marzipan covered in a layer of nougat — are also in the lineup.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • The Noughty chardonnay is super frothy and smells and tastes like Golden Delicious apples, lemon zest and a hint of marzipan.
    — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Other guests – many of them dressed in Aritzia garb – sipped Dom Pérignon champagne and marveled at a display of marzipan apples.
    — Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Transfer icing to a pastry bag fitted with a very small straight tip (or use a resealable plastic bag and snip off one corner); pipe a pattern on top of marzipan as desired.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The chepiche rounds out the vegetal flavors from the pumpkin stems and plantains, and creates a perfumed smoky aroma laced with orange blossoms and marzipan.
    — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2022

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