Marzipan (cup)cake(s) With Lemonglaze

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 200 g marzipan
• 75 g flour
• 125 g butter (or half canola-oil)
• 50 g ground almonds
• 4 eggs
• 75 g dark brown sugar (or brown or )
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or a half vanilla bean)
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 4 tablespoons icing sugar
• 1/2-1 tablespoon lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven at 180°c.
• 2 mix dark brown sugar and butter (or oil-butter mixture) until creamy.
• 3 add eggs and mix until very fluffy.
• 4 cube marzipan and soften in microwave (about 20-30 sec. at 700 watt). you don't need to do this, but the handling is way easier.
• 5 incorporate marzipan, cinnamon, pinch of salt and vanilla extract into egg-butter-sugar mixture.
• 6 add ground almonds.
• 7 mix baking powder with flour and add to dough. mix thoroughly.
• 8 butter a cake pan or cupcake tin and transfer dough to it.
• 9 bake at 180°c for about 45 minutes (cake) or 20 minutes (cupcakes).
• 10 let cupcakes cool for 10 minutes.
• 11 mix lemon juice and icing sugar until a thick paste forms. glaze cooled cupcakes as you like.