Homemade vegan marzipan

To make beautiful cakes, it often seems that you have one of three options:

1. Perfect your buttercream-piping skills so you can make flowers and such with only a pastry tip and a bag;

2. Make nasty-ass fondant flowers that nobody will actually eat; or

3. Shamefully obscure the entire cake with actual flowers that are neither edible nor meant for eating in the first place.