Homemade Mexican Mazapan
Super easy recipe to make your own delicious Mexican Mazapan
Ingredients
- 2 tazas unsalted peanuts
- 1¾ tazas azúcar glass
Instructions
- Add the peanuts to the food processor and run it until the peanuts turns into a fine powder
- Add the powdered sugar and continue processing it, until it starts to turn into a paste. It should still feel crumbly but when you take some out with your hands. But when you press it, it should keep its form.
- On a piece of baking paper place a cookie cutter. Fill the cookie cutter with the mazapan paste and press it down hard. Cut the excess paste off with a pastry dough scraper or a knife. Gently push out the final mazapan and repeat until all the paste is used up.
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Notes
If you can't find unsalted peanuts you can also use salted peanuts. If you use salted peanutes you can either wash them and then roast them in the oven at 180°C for 6 minutes, flip them and roast for another 6 minutes if not dry yet.
The other way to use salted peanuts is to add them without washing the salt off. This gives the mazapan a salty kick.