Obsessed with cakes, muffins, other baked goods and their decoration: Marzipan and kransekager course' follow-up. Honningkager (honey cakes, similar to ginger bread)

My life tastes marzipan now! Christmas and New Year taste marzipan...whole Denmark has amazing almond paste's flavor... I am in love with marzipan, but who isn't? :P

Welcome to "Marcipan og kransekager" decoration course I took last week here in Aalborg. I was the only non-Dane who participated (later I discovered that there was also one Bosnian woman in our group). There were about 20 people of different age and gender (we had 4 or 5 men) there. We had two evening classes each of which was 4 hrs long. And we did a lot of things with marzipan- marzipan cookies, cakes and figures. We also worked with melted chocolate to make some decoration spirals for the cakes.

So, check out my progress, I did the horn-shaped cake :) Other guys did New Year clock, towers and hearts...

Practice makes perfect. It was quite tricky to cover the bottom part of these spirals

The horn ready for chocolate decoration

Ready to be served

This is not my cake :)

Marzipan New Year clock cake

Marzipan figures

Marzipan heart filled with marzipan cookies

They allowed us to take home our creations. I wish I knew about this well in advance, I could have made much more :D

Marzipan cookies covered with chocolate

We bought metal forms for cookies recently, and I decided to try to bake Danish honningkager (honey cakes) for Christmas . They are not exactly the same as ginger bread well-known in North America , for which molasses is commonly used with the main spice, of course, ginger. Honey cakes have honey as a sweetener and different spices (cinnamon,cardamon, orange zest) but ginger (I put ginger anyway). They turned out really tasty. My honey ate more than 10 pieces of honey cakes at once before they even got glazed :D

This is how they looked like last Sunday: