Fine strawberry dessert confection

Name: Fine strawberry dessert confection
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 500 g medium-sized strawberries; 3 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam; 40 g Icing sugar; 175 g Marzipan raw mass; 50 g crushed pistachio kernels; 1 TABLESPOON Sugar crystals; 2 TABLESPOONS Sugar; 1-2 TEASPOONS Lemon juice; 7-10 Tbsp Lemon balm

AUTHOR
Avis Adkins

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
45 mins

TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

500 g medium-sized strawberries
3 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam
40 g Icing sugar
175 g Marzipan raw mass
50 g crushed pistachio kernels
1 TABLESPOON Sugar crystals
2 TABLESPOONS Sugar
1-2 TEASPOONS Lemon juice
7-10 Tbsp Lemon balm

Directions

1
Carefully wash, clean and pat dry the strawberries. Warm the jam, pass through a sieve and spread 8 strawberries of the same size. Sieve 25 g icing sugar and knead with marzipan.
2
Sieve the remaining icing sugar onto the work surface and roll out the marzipan thinly on top. Wrap the 8 prepared strawberries in the marzipan. Form leaves out of the remaining marzipan as desired.
3
Roll marzipan strawberries in pistachios and sugar crystals. (If necessary, brush with the rest of the jam to make it stick better). Puree 200 g strawberries, sugar and lemon juice. Spread the strawberry sauce on 4 plates and arrange the marzipan strawberries on top.
4
Halve the remaining strawberries and divide them between the plates. Decorate with marzipan and balm leaves. Serve sprinkled with remaining pistachios.