Pour the almond flour inside the melted sugar and vanilla flavoring, amalgamate the batter, and model it into shapes of fruits and vegetables, which you will then color.
This is the recipe to have beautiful oranges in your garden all year long, even in the summer… or rather, the steps to make frutta di Martorana.
The sweets made with almond paste were born indeed in the garden of the Chiesa della Martorana (the church named after its founder, the noblewoman Eloisa Martorana). Surprised by the announcement of a visit by the king of Sicily Charles V to the monastery on a hot summer day, the nuns invented and prepared the almond paste fruits that they hung from the otherwise fruitless trees of the garden.
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