In a recipe like this, you can do a 1:1 swap of marzipan to homemade almond paste. You can also swap out the cashews for any nut you love — think almonds (yes, more of them!), pecans, or hazelnuts.

Warm the almond paste in the microwave until pliable, 1 to 2 minutes. Cool slightly if needed, then break up into small pieces and put in food processor. Add sugar, salt and egg whites and process ...

Not to be mistaken for marzipan, almond paste is commonly used as a filling or topping in croissants, cakes, cookies, and pies, whereas marzipan is similar to a fondant and can be molded.

Almond paste is always used as an ingredient in baked goods, like croissants and pound cakes. While marzipan can be used in baked goods, it can also be eaten on its own.

Almond paste is better for baking, and has a little coarser texture and is a little less sweet than its sister almond product, marzipan. Marzipan is smoothly textured, sweeter, and is often used for ...

The term marzipan — from "march pane" — is widely in use now in a number of languages, but an almond and sugar variant known as postre regio in Spain has been traced to at least as early as 1150.

Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheets, leaving 3 inches between cookies. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden with the edges being darker, but not browned.

Grind almonds in an electric blender or four times in a nut grinder (or use a food processor); they must be ground extremely fine. Combine ground almonds, almond extract and confectioners' sugar ...

At Copenhagen Pastry, Hansen figures, about 80% of the traditional Danish pastries and cookies and cakes she sells contain marzipan, or sugared almond paste, in some form or another.

Almond paste, by the way, is not marzipan; almond paste is smoother than marzipan. Break up the almond paste into small chunks and beat it in a mixer with sugar until the mixture looks like sand.

Now, they're ready to display the goods in the store. Marzipan, Julie Randazzo explains, is uncooked almond paste. It's the same ingredient from which pignoli nuts are baked.