Marzipan Bugs

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 140 g marzipan
• black food coloring
• edible luster dust, various colours

Recipe

• 1 mix black food colouring into the marzipan, this will take some time and turn everything your touch black.
• 2 cut or break marzipan into beetle sized lumps.
• 3 roll each lump into a elongated ball, about an inch long.
• 4 flatten slightly until roughly bug shape.
• 5 make groove in the bug to make it look like an egyptian scarab beetle.
• 6 dab a small brush into the edible luster and then wipe most of it off on a kitchen tissue, then brush the wings/shell of the beetle.
• 7 add a second colour if you want a shimmering beetle effect.
• 8 optional; roll some marzipan into tiny sausage, which are going to be the legs.
• 9 cut the tiny sausages into 3 shorter sausages, enough to sit under the beetle and poke out each side.
• 10 layout legs, stick beetle on-top, carefully wait to harder a bit before moving.