Ready-made marzipan is sold in plastic-wrapped blocks in the baking section of most supermarkets. Marzipan can be made with egg yolk for a richer colour or coloured with food colouring and ...

Stollen is a German Christmas cake thought to date all the way back to the Middle Ages. You've probably seen it, if not tried ...

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We've tried and tested a range of stollen in time for Christmas - so you don't have to. We've reviewed stollen from M&S, ...

At first I thought it was just that the end slice didn't contain any marzipan but there wasn't much more as I cut further into the loaf. It meant the cake didn't a huge amount of flavour.

Initially, I assumed the lack of marzipan was confined to the end slice of the loaf, but as I cut further in, it became clear that there wasn't much more. This resulted in a cake that lacked ...