For 300 g, you will need:

• 1 150 g walnut kernels
• 2 150 g icing sugar
• 3 1 egg white
• Total weight: 330 grams

How long does it take?

Step by step recipe

Stage 1

2 min.

Weight 150 g walnut kernels.

Stage 2

2 min.

Put them in the food processor with 150 g icing sugar.

Stage 3

2 min.

Switch on food processor, and as soon as walnuts are reduced to a powder, add egg white...

Stage 4

3 min.

...a spoonful at a time, until paste starts to gather together.

Finish with your hand, gathering all the paste into a ball.

Stage 5

5 min.

Shape the ball into a thick disc, wrap in plastic film and keep in the fridge.

Remarks

Nutritional information

How much will it cost?

For 300 g : 3.73 €

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Your 6 comments or questions on this recipe

• What is the purpose of icing sugar in the recipe? Just make it sweeter? Can I omit it or use other substitute? Thanks. A diabetes person.
  Posted by Anonymous may 2^nd 2011 at 05:36 (n° 1)
• Yes, make it sweeter and also the texture of the paste. You can try to reduce it, but I'm not sure that omit it will give you a pretty result.
  Start your try with no sugar, see what you got, then add some sugar or substitute and see what's happen.
  Good luck.
  Posted by jh may 2^nd 2011 at 09:07 (n° 2)
• Thanks for this recipe--I definitely don't like almond paste (marzipan) and didn't realize until now that one could use walnuts instead. I intend to try to make an Irish Christmas fruitcake. At the end of the process, it calls for covering the cake with "almond paste" and royal icing, so I will instead cover mine with walnut paste.
  
  Cheers, Talia
  Posted by Talia december 3^rd 2014 at 06:06 (n° 3)
• I remember some walnut pettitfours that were very dark in colour, not exceedingly sweet, with half a walnit on top and finished with a clear,thin hard sugar glaze. Have never found a recipe for them. MOST yummy. Can you advise about how to make same? Thanks Zoe
  Posted by Zoe october 28^th 2016 at 11:57 (n° 4)
• Sorry, no idea what it is, never seen that.
  Posted by jh october 30^th 2016 at 11:33 (n° 5)
• Adding sugar with the nuts helps grind them aiding in the paste process
  Posted by Cat november 4^th 2016 at 16:39 (n° 6)

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