Marzipan vs. Frangipane — What's the Difference?

Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract. It is often made into sweets; common uses are chocolate-covered marzipan and small marzipan imitations of fruits and vegetables.

Frangipane ( FRAN-jih-pa(y)n, Italian: [ˌfrandʒiˈpaːne]) is a sweet almond-flavored custard used in a variety of ways including cakes and such pastries as the Bakewell tart, conversation tart, Jésuite and pithivier. A French spelling from a 1674 cookbook is franchipane with the earliest modern spelling coming from a 1732 confectioners' dictionary.

A confection made of ground almonds or almond paste, sugar, and sometimes egg whites, often molded into decorative shapes.

Any of various deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria, native to tropical America and widely naturalized elsewhere, having milky sap and showy, fragrant, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers. Also called plumeria, temple tree.

A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

A perfume derived from or similar in scent to the flowers of one of these shrubs or trees.

A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.

Also fran·gi·pane (frănjə-pān′) A creamy pastry filling flavored with almonds.

(countable) A piece of such a confection.

(uncountable) A cream made from ground almonds used in confectionery

(transitive) To cover with marzipan.

(countable) A pastry filled with this cream

A confection made of almonds and sugar mixed into a paste and molded into shapes. Same as marchpane.

A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.

Almond paste and egg whites

A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.

Pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling