Made a princess cake and it was light and yummy. Also my first time making & trying marzipan, and I think it worked pretty well. So easy to work with for shaping and decorations, and I really liked the almond taste of it!
by jkiazzz
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lovingbookhome
that looks wonderful! I’m also partial to it because I love a green and pink color scheme <3
kelseygrn
That looks beautiful! I’m contemplating making one myself in a few weeks, I hope it turns out half as well.
OldLadyToronto
That looks amazing!
jkiazzz
If anyone is interested in the recipe, I kind of searched different recipes online and combined/modified them –
Marzipan: 270g whole almonds (**) 210g powdered sugar 4.5 tsp water 1-2tsp almond extract —>This yielded about 508g marsipan
I first soaked the almonds in boiled water until room temperature, then I rubbed off the almond skin. Put the whole thing into a food processor to make them into ground almond. Then add the powdered sugar into the processor to mix, with water and almond extract added in between, until you see paste texture. Like a little croaser peanut butter texture.
(** for convenience you could use almond flour, in which case you’ll need more water to get to the paste texture. I read that using whole almonds give it a better taste and it wasn’t much harder.)
Pastry cream and assembly followed this video, expect that I used an 8 inch cake tin, so I adjusted my ingredients to [whatever in that recipe] /81×64. https://youtu.be/LYKRh5udUew?si=Wpttk5_QwJ7AGPs5
I didn’t make my own raspberry jam and just used store-bought 🙂
spinster-core
Ooh, definitely trying soon. This looks delicious! 💛
DueWerewolf1
Beautiful – great job!
carrapeiro
It’s very pretty and the layers are so tidy! Great job 👍👍
f_dennis
The only critique is that the last bread layer should be much further down since the cream layer should be abnormally thick. like [this](https://mykitchenstories.se/prinsesstarta/).
Also random fact for the people, the name princesstårta (prinsess cake) is after being like by three actual princesses (prinsessan Margaretha – later Princess of Denmark, prinsessan Märtha – later Crown Princess of Norway and prinsessan Astrid – later Queen of the Belgians) the original name was apparently grön tårta (green cake). This is also a reason why sometimes they place a stencil of a crown on the cake and add powdered sugar on top, instead of a rose.
Solestrale
Gorgeous!
justatriceratops
I use my tortilla press to do the marzipan and it works great.
rhicid777
OP this looks AMAZING, I may be partial because my first thought was matcha lol
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that looks wonderful! I’m also partial to it because I love a green and pink color scheme <3
That looks beautiful! I’m contemplating making one myself in a few weeks, I hope it turns out half as well.
That looks amazing!
If anyone is interested in the recipe, I kind of searched different recipes online and combined/modified them –
Marzipan:
270g whole almonds (**)
210g powdered sugar
4.5 tsp water
1-2tsp almond extract
—>This yielded about 508g marsipan
I first soaked the almonds in boiled water until room temperature, then I rubbed off the almond skin. Put the whole thing into a food processor to make them into ground almond. Then add the powdered sugar into the processor to mix, with water and almond extract added in between, until you see paste texture. Like a little croaser peanut butter texture.
(** for convenience you could use almond flour, in which case you’ll need more water to get to the paste texture. I read that using whole almonds give it a better taste and it wasn’t much harder.)
Vanilla genoise sponge: I used this recipe https://youtu.be/HKe8af9xsiE?si=1FJ_Upfjy4AXCNwU
Pastry cream and assembly followed this video, expect that I used an 8 inch cake tin, so I adjusted my ingredients to [whatever in that recipe] /81×64.
https://youtu.be/LYKRh5udUew?si=Wpttk5_QwJ7AGPs5
I didn’t make my own raspberry jam and just used store-bought 🙂
Ooh, definitely trying soon. This looks delicious! 💛
Beautiful – great job!
It’s very pretty and the layers are so tidy! Great job 👍👍
The only critique is that the last bread layer should be much further down since the cream layer should be abnormally thick. like [this](https://mykitchenstories.se/prinsesstarta/).
Also random fact for the people, the name princesstårta (prinsess cake) is after being like by three actual princesses (prinsessan Margaretha – later Princess of Denmark, prinsessan Märtha – later Crown Princess of Norway and prinsessan Astrid – later Queen of the Belgians) the original name was apparently grön tårta (green cake). This is also a reason why sometimes they place a stencil of a crown on the cake and add powdered sugar on top, instead of a rose.
Gorgeous!
I use my tortilla press to do the marzipan and it works great.
OP this looks AMAZING, I may be partial because my first thought was matcha lol
looks delicious!
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