Almond pastes

Almond paste for homemade cake decoration

Almond paste is an excellent alternative to modeling sugar paste. Find our wide choice of almond pastes at the best value for money on Autourdugateau.fr.

If you don't like the taste of classic sugar paste, then almond paste is for you. You can also try making your modeling or covering your cakes with chocolate paste!

Natural, colored or pre-spread almond paste

Almond paste is mainly made from ground almonds and sugar. Its natural almond flavor goes particularly well with pastries such as strawberry for a birthday, disguised fruit for Christmas or cupcakes for a baby shower.

We offer almond paste of different brands. Its texture, close to that of sugar paste, makes it very malleable. It is in fact easy to work with thanks to its suppleness and flexibility; you can easily obtain the same result as with a covering sugar paste. It is also appreciated by pastry chefs and cake designers for its excellent taste.
The almond paste is available either in 250 g bars or pre-rolled for even greater ease of use.

As with sugar paste, you will find different colors, yellow, blue, green, red, orange and many others.

Does almond paste color?

Yes ! it is a product that colors very well, like sugar paste, you need liquid or powdered food coloring. You need to put a little coloring on the dough and knead it. You will have to insist more or less to obtain a homogeneous color and keep them in plastic film in the fridge for a few hours so that the pigments integrate well.

Make a marzipan decoration for baking

Almond paste is used in particular for creative pastry and cake design. You can use it either to cover a cake or to create cake decorations.

Using a cookie cutter, you can make marzipan roses, leaves or patterns like hearts, stars and snowflakes. You can also add CMC powder to your almond paste to harden it and create models of characters, animals or decorative objects.