Accidentally Vegan: Marzipan!

This week’s Accidentally Vegan feature is…Marzipan!

Shared by Rebecca Gilbert

I know… I know… this looks like a wheat pretzel, right?  But it was actually the cutest gift ever from a friend in Germany.  This Bavarian delight is actually a marzipan sweet in the shape of a preztel!  (Or in the shape of a bretzel as my friend from Munich would say).

Marzipan is made from almonds and sugar, so it’s vegan!  I recommend that you always check the ingredients on the package anyway just to make sure there’s no strange variant from the norm.  In Europe, I haven’t seen eggs listed on the ingredient list for marzipan, but occasionally in the US I do see egg whites listed in the ingredients.  (Maybe for a glaze?)

This particular pretzel molded marzipan comes from Germany, home to a community of over 600,000 vegans!  I’m not sure where you can buy this in the US, but there is plenty of decorated vegan marzipan available online at Amazon.  I even found boxes of the plain marzipan that you can mold and decorate yourself.    Fun!

Products featured on Accidentally Vegan meet these criteria:

1) They’re not packaged as a vegan product, but they meet vegan standards 

or

2) They’re labeled as vegan and taste so amazing that we want to make sure you know about them!

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