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Here’s a recipe for some nice German marzipan “cookies”. They’re not cookies in a traditional sense, but were always served to me as cookies, so I don’t know how to categorise them.

Ingredients

• 20g Flour
• 50g Icing sugar
• 50g dark chocolate
• 100g almonds
• 200g Marzipan paste
• 1 egg

Cookware you’ll need

• a bowl
• a metal bowl and/or a pot to melt the chocolate
• a mill
• baking sheet with parchment paper

Ok now begin…

1. Split half of the almonds in two and save them for later. Mill the other half of the almonds. Make sure you handle them without their skin, otherwise pour boiling water over them and peel the skin off first. Mix and knead the milled almonds with the marzipan paste.
2. Seperate an egg and save the yolk. Mix the rest with the marzipan paste.
3. Add flour and icing sugar to the paste and knead again.
4. After the “dough” has the right texture – it’s quite sticky – you should be able to form small balls out of it.
5. You can think about pre-heating the oven to 130 °C at this point.
6. Place the small balls on the baking sheet with parchement paper and add three of the saved almond halfs to each ball (see pic)
7. Use the yolk and add a wee bit of water. Brush the balls with this egg paint.
8. Now place them in the oven for 10-15 min. Make sure they do not bbecome to dark, that happens very, very easy!
9. Now let them cool down (they become more stable the more they cool down, so be patient!)
10. Melt the chocolate (you know how to melt chocolate: either in a bowl over hot water for better quality or be lazy and melt it directly in a pot).
11. Now dip the balls into the molten chocolate to cover their bottom in a thin layer of chocolate. Cool down again and your’re finished! …hehe: “balls”!*

My grandma baked them traditionally for christmas and I think that’s the time most people eat them. They might be too “heavy” for warm summer days. Well, I can’t agree and christmas comes for sure this year anyway! …HAHA: “BALLS”!!

Btw. the picture above lacks the chocolate bottom. I putted the picture there with the intention to show how the almonds shall be placed…add the chocolate, it’s better, trust me!…no worries, you just mentioned balls as a recipe!

* thankful comments by a friend of mine

Ok, I know it’s old, a lot of blogs mentioned it already and while writing those lines I’m even not quite sure if I haven’t mentioned it as well sometime, somewhere (Deli-Bookmarks?). Anway I just want to mention it again because IT IS STILL F****** AWESOME!!!

Check it out…no, better try it out right away! It works so good for me, and I sprinkle some extra chocolate pieces in the dough – it’s so tasty, man, must be a good thing!

Hey! I just found a cool book about chocolate at Google Books that I wanted to share with you. It’s old but especially the recipes are interesting.

…though still love their chocolate!!

Happy St. Martin’s Day to everybody!! [wiki]

Nope. Even if you just wanted to start to think this candy product might be cool – it is not. It’s amazing! I didn’t let it happen to taste this candy toy but I believe it just taste as good as it seems to taste aaaaand it makes you look like a vampire. “Wack-O-Wax Lips and Fangs” how it is described on the company’s homepage has a five out of five star rating simply by the fact that it teaches every little child “keep playing with your food”…as it says more or less on the mentioned homepage.

Learn a lesson from this car owner and be proud of your favourite food preparation! Beneath number plates I can think of t-shirt, coffee mugs, stickers and many other stuff…

If you ever get hold of one of those be prepared for an unique mixture of artificial flavours and it definitely lives up to its promises on the package:

• “XXL-Size”: Even more than you want
• “All American Fun Burger”: What? I think emphasis is more or less on “fun”.
• “Great Taste”: Well…

Mallow Burger: Highly recommended! or Mallow Burger: Hot!

Yes, the picture is real. No fake. Just Chippy (or George as friends used to call him).

I remember as we met for the first time. I just grabed him by random out of my bag of salt and black pepper chips…love at first sight. A one-piece-8-layer-cruncher. I couldn’t belive my eyes, but I knew: He was the gorgeous golden brown, crispy looking, spicy, high-fat masterwork of snack industry. And he was unique. Only very few people will get the chance to hold the holy grail of snacking in their hands. I realised that I was one of them now. A chosen one thanks Chippy! Next I ate it…and from this point on, I can’t remember anything.

Thank you Chippy! You were one of the best friends a man can have. I will never forget you, and I will remember you everytime I look in the mirror and see this small second double chin you made. Wherever you are right now: Crunch on! We love you…

Chippy the Potato Chip (*18.09.2009; † 07.10.2009)

Thank you Mr. Ferdinand Braun, thank you Mr. Hiroshi Yamauchi, thank you Mr. Ken Kutaragi and thank you Mr. Butcher and his dear cattle for this unforgettable lazy evening surrounded by sentimentally old-school technology and a 1738 g (3,83 lb) rib besides all those other snacks and beverages on 24th of July, 2009. Thank you.