Recipe: Almond Paste

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Description/Notes:

Cover your Christmas cake with this almond paste at least acouple of days before adding the royal icing or the almond oil may discolour the icing

Ingredients:

12 oz. (375g) ground almonds

12 oz. (375g) icing sugar

1 tsp. vanilla essence

1 egg, lightly beaten

jucie of half a lemon

Cooking Instructions:

1. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl then add the ground almonds
2. Stir the egg into the almonds and sugar then add the vanilla essence and enough lemon juice to make a stiff dough
3. Shape into a ball and knead lightly