“It’s magical, to take a lump of beige paste and turn it into something beautiful,” says marzipan maker Kim Jurado (below right). Jurado and her partner, Gail Watson, own Bella Dulce (in Spanish, “beautiful sweet”), located in Watson’s Manhattan loft, where they craft almond candy oranges, figs, lemons, cherries, pears, and other fruits. Jurado, who is half Mexican and half Swedish, learned to make marzipan from her mother, who “came here from Sweden with her almond grinder.”