Sweet Marzipan

Sweetness

Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugar. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin, aspartame, sucralose and stevia. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.

Marzipan

Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and almond meal, sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract. Variants can be made from other nuts, or apricot or peach kernels, instead of almonds.

sweet

Adjective

1. Tasting of sugars.
2. Retaining a portion of sugar.

Interjection

1. Used as a positive response to good news or information.

marzipan

Noun

1. A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.
2. A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.

Verb

1. To cover with marzipan.