marzipan Archives - ZoëBakes eat dessert first Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:19:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 36689627 Marzipan Mandel Bread from Molly on the Range https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/10/29/molly-on-the-range-marzipan-mandel-bread/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/10/29/molly-on-the-range-marzipan-mandel-bread/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:24:51 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=7456 Mandelbrot is the Jewish or Eastern European version of biscotti. I grew up avoiding it at Jewish holidays, because it always struck me as stale and tasteless. Many years later I fell in love with Italian biscotti, probably around the time I discovered that drinking coffee was the key to […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/10/29/molly-on-the-range-marzipan-mandel-bread/feed/ 2 7456 Beehive Cake with Honey Buttercream https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/04/13/beehive-cake-brown-butter-banana-cake-and-honey-buttercream/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/04/13/beehive-cake-brown-butter-banana-cake-and-honey-buttercream/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:00:55 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=4081 Up until very recently my father has been a beekeeper. He had bee hives at our home in Vermont and then drove them, full of bees to Minnesota. Due to a city ordinance he was not allowed to keep bees in his Edina yard and had to set them up at […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/04/13/beehive-cake-brown-butter-banana-cake-and-honey-buttercream/feed/ 125 4081 Halloween Pumpkin Cake https://www.zoebakes.com/2013/10/07/pumpkin-cake-for-halloween-or-thanksgiving/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2013/10/07/pumpkin-cake-for-halloween-or-thanksgiving/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:13:11 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=6017 I first made this fun pumpkin cake with my kids for Halloween (they’re adults now!). It’s a fun and festive cake that can be dressed up for adults or made just for kids. Pumpkin season is here, which is the only reason I can send this short summer off with […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2013/10/07/pumpkin-cake-for-halloween-or-thanksgiving/feed/ 24 6017 Cassata – Sicilian Ricotta Cake with Pistachio Marzipan https://www.zoebakes.com/2011/04/20/easter-cake-cassata-sicilian-ricotta-cake-with-pistachio-marzipan/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2011/04/20/easter-cake-cassata-sicilian-ricotta-cake-with-pistachio-marzipan/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:21:41 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=3755 This cake makes me think of sitting on the porch swing in my Italian grandmother’s lanai. It was about 1973 and I would have been 6 years old and eating something sweet and spring-like. She had hanging baskets of flowers dangling from the ceiling from elaborately woven macramé; in shades of […]

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