Fun with Marzipan

Marzipan reminds me of when I was a kid. We lived in Germany for a spell and all the bakeries had fruit-shaped marzipan, all delicately colored and molded and incredibly real looking. I bought a 7 oz tube the other day for about $5, which makes an incredible amount of figures and some for snacking. We used your standard grocery store food coloring, which does a job on the finger staining, but nobody seemed to care. Here's our afternoon project with our buddy Jim: