Autumn in Geneva is all about Chestnuts, these ones are made of marzipan!
Ailsa instructs us to “break out your mahogany, cinnamon, cocoa and hazel; dazzle me with toast, ecru and sepia” this week.
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A real feast of colour here, the chestnuts are almost purple. (Though I think of them as conkers, but that is probably a different type…) With the red nodules, they resemble some sort of undersea, or perhaps alien life form. I’d like to see the shot without the borders, and zoomed in even closer, for an abstract ‘what is it?’ effect. Nice stuff, as always.
Regards from Norfolk. Pete. x
Sweet chestnuts – the kind you used to find here roasted and sold in little vans often near the bus station – I loved them! But these are actually made out of marzipan and chestnut puree – they looked amazing 🙂
P.S. Shows what I know about nuts and trees. Precisely nothing! x
I simply could not figure out what these things were! I even wondered if they were eyeballs. (!) Very cool. I’ll bet they’re delicious, too.
They are cleverly done, but so expensive I’m afraid I didn’t buy any – and I love marzipan!
Marzipan chestnuts! How cool. Love that picture, Jude. 🙂
Thanks Cathy 🙂
Now I am back home I will try and catch up with all the blogs I have missed.
Take your time, Jude. I am always trying to keep up, and failing miserably. 🙂 Glad you made it back home safely.
These are so beautiful that it would be such a pity to eat them, but I fear that hubby would have no compunction at all about diving right in. 😯
Is he a marzipan addict? I adore marzipan 🙂
Yes he certainly is. 🙂