Ingredients

• 200 g marzipan
• 75 g flour
• 125 g butter (or half canola-oil)
• 50 g ground almonds
• 4 eggs
• 75 g dark brown sugar (or brown or white)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or a half vanilla bean)
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 4 tablespoons icing sugar
• 1/2-1 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions

1. Preheat oven at 180°C.

2. Mix dark brown sugar and butter (or oil-butter mixture) until creamy.

3. Add eggs and mix until very fluffy.

4. Cube Marzipan and soften in microwave (about 20-30 sec. at 700 Watt). You don't need to do this, but the handling is way easier.

5. Incorporate marzipan, cinnamon, pinch of salt and vanilla extract into egg-butter-sugar mixture.

6. Add ground almonds.

7. Mix baking powder with flour and add to dough. Mix thoroughly.

8. Butter a cake pan or cupcake tin and transfer dough to it.

9. Bake at 180°C for about 45 minutes (cake) or 20 minutes (cupcakes).

10. Let cupcakes cool for 10 minutes.

11. Mix lemon juice and icing sugar until a thick paste forms. Glaze cooled cupcakes as you like.