Excellent recipes for the best marzipan Christmas cookies. Get inspired!

Marzipan Christmas cookies are a delightful and wonderful treat, and they are also visually stunning!

Engage your friends, family, and especially children in creating them. You will discover that it will be incredibly enjoyable and rewarding!

Find inspiration in our recipes. 🙂

Marzipan meringues

This recipe allows you to enjoy a wonderful combination of hazelnuts, marzipan, and ground almonds.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup of marzipan
• 1/3 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 egg white
• 1/4 cup plain flour
• handful ground almonds
• handful of hazelnuts
• 2 tablespoons of cane sugar
• 2 tablespoons of whipping cream
• chocolate topping
• confectionery decoration

Method

• Prepare a pan and dry-fry the chopped hazelnuts in it. Add sugar to them and let them caramelize.
• Add cream and a little water (as needed) and make a smooth mixture. As soon as the mixture is formed, pour it onto a greased baking sheet and spread it over the entire surface.
• Wait for the mixture to harden, and then chop it into small pieces. Grate the marzipan into a bowl, add flour with icing sugar, ground almonds, egg white, and the chopped mixture with hazelnuts.
• Process all the ingredients into a smooth dough. Then, take equal-sized pieces and shape them into small balls.
• Place the balls on a tray lined with baking paper and place in an oven preheated to 360°C.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes. Leave the baked meringues to cool for a while, then cover them with chocolate glaze and add sugar decorations.
• Pearls, flowers, chocolate decorations, etc. are suitable. Then you just have to wait until the frosting hardens and you can consume it.

Cut-out marzipan Christmas cookies with chocolate

Full of marzipan and chocolate, this recipe just can’t help but taste good!

Follow the simple steps, and you’ll be done in no time!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/4 cup of milk chocolate
• 1/4 cup dark chocolate
• 1 teaspoon cocoa (ideally Dutch type)
• 1/2 cup of marzipan mass

Method

• Sift plain flour with cocoa into a bowl, add grated chocolate (both types), marzipan, and softened butter, and process everything into a smooth dough.
• Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for 30-45 minutes.
• Line a tray with baking paper and preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Put the dough on a roll, roll out a sheet 0.1 inches thick, and then cut out the shapes you like (e.g., stars, bells, etc.).
• Transfer the cutout cookies to a baking sheet and bake for 25-30 minutes. You can leave the baked cookies as they are, or lightly sugar them, or cover them in chocolate coating.
• Another option is to glue the individual shapes together with jam.

Marzipan Chocolate Cookies

In this recipe, marzipan is not part of the dough but only serves as a filling.

The result is excellent!

Ingredients

Dough:

• 2 cups of plain flour
• 1 cup of softened butter
• 1 cup of ground almonds
• 1 cup of maple syrup
• 2 whole eggs
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest

Filling:

• 1 cup of marzipan
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar

Decoration:

• chocolate topping
• confectionery decoration

Method

• Prepare a bowl and add the softened butter, maple syrup, vanilla sugar, and lemon zest. Beat everything together into a foam. Then, gradually beat the eggs into the mixture.
• Sift the flour and baking powder into another bowl. Mix the smaller half of this mixture into the prepared butter mixture. Add the ground almonds and stir well to combine.
• Add the remaining half of the flour with the baking powder in small portions and make a smooth dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for an hour.
• Place the cooled and rested dough on a rolling pin and roll out a thin sheet from which you will cut out individual pieces using a mold.
• Place the candy on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in the oven, heated to 340°F, for 10 minutes.
• After baking, put the cookies on a flat surface and let them cool completely.
• Meanwhile, process the marzipan with 1 tablespoon of caster sugar to form a smooth mass. Use the rest of the icing sugar to dust the rolling pin on which you will roll out the marzipan.
• Cut out the same shapes from the marzipan sheet as you did from the dough you baked.
• Always glue two identical baked shapes with one marzipan shape that you insert between them.
• Finally, dip half of the cookies in the chocolate coating, sprinkle with decorations, and let set.
• Christmas cookies with marzipan are ready!

Marzipan shells

Do you want to have original Christmas cookies on the table? In that case, marzipan shells are just right for you!

These sweets with cheerful shapes are mainly fun for children, but everyone will enjoy them!

Try our simple no-bake recipe!

Ingredients

• 2 cups of unsalted cashew nuts
• 2 cups of powdered sugar
• 7-10 drops of almond extract
• 2 teaspoons granulated sugar (dissolved in ¼ cup hot water)
• Food coloring (of your choice)

Method

• Grind the cashews into a fine powder. Then, sift it using a sieve. If you have larger pieces of nuts left, collect them and grind them all again into a fine powder.
• Mix the icing sugar with the cashew nut powder in a bowl. Add a few drops of almond extract, but do not add too much to avoid an overpowering aroma.
• Pour the prepared hot water and sugar into the bowl in small portions and divide the resulting mixture according to how much food coloring you have.
• Make a well in the center of each portion of the mixture and add about 4-5 drops of food coloring.
• Start kneading the dough. If an oily substance appears when kneading the dough, it is okay.
• Once the dough is ready, divide it into smaller balls and shape them using molds in the shape of shells, stars, etc.
• Let the unbaked marzipan Christmas cookies prepared in this way dry in the air for about 6-8 hours.
• Once the marzipan shells are dry, you can serve them or store them in an airtight container. Mussels stored this way will last for 2-3 weeks at room temperature and up to a month if you keep them in the refrigerator.

Linzer cookies with marzipan

This recipe will be appreciated by all those who love Linzer dough but do not want to spend a lot of time making it.

Linzer cookies are a traditional Austrian pastry consisting of two buttery, nutty, or almond-flavored shortbread cookies sandwiched with a layer of jam. These delightful cookies are often dusted with powdered sugar and are known for their delicate texture and rich flavor.

The simple recipe contains excellent marzipan, which gives the Linzer cookies an extra look and taste!

Ingredients

• 1-2 packages of Linze dough (you can buy it at the grocery store)
• 1 package of Marzipan (you can buy it or make it by yourself)
• 1 egg (yolk)
• confectionery sprinkles

Method

• Cut out various shapes from the dough. It depends entirely on you whether it will be stars, wheels, etc.
• Preheat the oven to 360°F and bake the cut shapes for 6-8 minutes. Watch the candy carefully and remove it as soon as it starts to turn slightly golden.
• Let the baked cookies cool, and prepare the marzipan mass if you decide to make it homemade.
• Roll out the dough and cut out the same shapes as the ones you baked.
• Brush the candy with the beaten egg yolk and stick the marzipan on it.
• At the end, you can decorate the marzipan candy with confectionery sprinkles.
• You are done!

If you don’t want to use ready-made mixes and want to try making homemade marzipan, follow the instructions in the video.

Homemade Marzipan recipe | Done in 5 minutes | Pastry 101

The selected recipes prove that marzipan Christmas cookies are not difficult to make.

Make baked or unbaked marzipan treats and enjoy!