December 11, 2008
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Markmallows! Yummy!!!!!!!
Last week I received an order of homemade marshmallows in the mail and fell in love. I had to find a way to make my own so I went out on the internet and lo and behold there were lots of recipes out there! So, to the store I went with my list. I always wondered what they were made from. I took it all to my daughter’s house while we trimmed her tree I made marshmallows. I used a recipe that was so confusing that I think I messed up a step and they turned out too wet. So today I decided to make some more here in my own kitchen and I took pictures! For those of you who need pictures I have you covered.
Here we have my candy making corner. This is the vanilla which the recipe calls for and the peppermint extract and red food coloring because I am just that crazy…
Getting ready: Here is the candy thermometer which I found to be super important! And my super cool ceramic measuirng spoons totally
not cool when they crash and break on the floor. : ( and yes I like to tape my recipes onto the wall, cupobards or whatever. It is at just
the right distance for me so I dont have to break out the reading glasses. Note: I renamed these to MARKMALLOWS in honor of my
sweet husband.
Here the syrup mixture is getting a beating…note the color is not white!
The mixture takes a beating for 15 minutes! Oh look it is beginning to turn white!
ooooo….lala…. let’s test the texture! Hmmm a bit thick I think. Wonder if that is going to be a problem….
It was a bit difficult getting that gooeyness into the powder dusted pan. But we managed to wrestle it and win. I know it doesnt take the
blue ribbon for beauty but it sure does smell good! Now to let it sit ovenight uncovered. Yeah right!
I think we waited 3 hours before I began cutting into it. I wanted to make up the first giift jar! I am sooo impatient! It really was ready to cut.
See?? After eating some of it and washing it down with a pepsi ( not a good idea) then I busily placed these wonderous pillows of magic into their
sweet little jars and curled the ribbons.
Tomorrow I make more! Cause I must master this recipe! Aren’t you glad you aren’t my guinea pig?? Stay tuned for my homemade
graham crackers in the coming days. You see where I am going with those two items dont you? To reward the first person who actually
read all this… if you can guess correctly what I am putting together here, you get your own jar of MARKMALLOWS! Okay GO!
Comments (21)
SMORES!
:heartbeat: Love your marble for candy making, reminds me of my grandmother. And Bri has a red mixer just like ours, I’ll have to show her these pictures
CONGRATULATIONS TO MARY (BRONCOMOM) !WE HAVE A WINNER! Oh wow Mary that was fast! I have been busy making another batch this time a double batch! I am not messing aorund this time! lol
Message me your address and your markmallows will arrive at your house just as soon as I get to the post office and the snail mail can get it there!
I LOVE my red mixer I got it last Christmas! Trouble is I got it just as I joined Weight Watchers so everything I ever wanted to use it for was now a :wha: NO-NO…lol
CALLIING ALL OUR BRIDES….STAY TUNED FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A GIFT JAR OF MARKMALLOWS!
Yay — homemade smores! Can you please share the markmallow recipe? Looks yummy!
Shucks!!! I just read it and was going to guess smores!!!
good to know we were right.
Looks yummmmmmyyyyyy…..
Oh…that was too easy! I’m just slow to get online, that’s all. LOL!
It is so fun to find and master a recipe that you can give away at Christmas. I’ve been giving Caramel Pecans to our photo lab employees for about five years now. They totally look forward to them. The lab moved way across town this past year, so I sent a jar of the pecans to the lab through their local store I use now (cuz it’s closer to my home). I put a note on the jar saying that if they returned the jar I’d refill it. Well…the jar got returned the very next day! So this time I’m sending them a large ziplock bag of them….that should last at least TWO days, I’m sure. haha
I saw this on Facebook already… :giggle:
I totally missed that!! I stopped at the graham crackers thing but didn’t put it together. lol
I’ve never heard of homemade marshmallows before! What do they taste like and are they hard or soft?
YUMMY.homemade smores sound even better! Been crazy busy around here. Lots of changes! Will fill you in another time. All is wonderful here though! Sure wish I could have come by and ordered my cards from you all! We did the pic in the cards, but would have been nice to have a great custom one from you all!
Hope all is good your way. Finally getting by to get all caught up with you. LOVE the thanksgiving slideshow, it was so cute! and boy oh boy is Jayden growing up fast!!! He is so cute!
Well. I got to get back to working on house stuff. Working at 1 today so I need to get my little stuff done around here. Sending you lots of holiday hugs and loves……….Kimi
so what if you were to melt chocolate truffles into them…MMMMM they’re super cheap and awesome at costco!
we have the exact same KitchenAid, though ours hasn’t been used to make our own marshmallows (yet).
Good job!
:rolleyes: I’m more of a Chocolate lover, like all chocolate Chip thick and gewy cookies, and Oatmeal raisen too. Not really into Marshmellow’s, never have been although as a kid i remeber toasting them over the fire in our fireplace and eating those nasty burned things, I can actually taste them now! Yuck!
R
what a cute idea! thanks for sharing your merry-making…
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@eonnaday - hey girl! so goood to hear from you! Hows life? I will have to come by and see you soon. RIght now I gotta get ready to upload a new slideshow so I gotta hustle! Told the clients it will be up soon.
Wow, that looks so yummy!
@w4lucy - Oh they are soft and silky you cant believe how yummy they are! Especially when you have mixed it all up and are turning it out into the pan to sit overnight….
@Borelfoto - Yeah I am more of a chocolate lover too and you can make them taste chocolatey…I made a batch with coco….they were okay if I had chocolate extract it might have been better. Oh yeah the burnt marshmallows never did it for me either…patoeey! THese are nothing like tha and I would shoot someone who did that to one of my markmallows….lol.
@AnieT - hahaha….it is beyond amazing….I tried it with some dark chocolate and wow!
@ForHisGlory2 - Oh bummer! Yummy is the word!
They look uber yummy!!!!!!!! Love your kitchen too!!!!!!
@lydellphoto -
I asked my mom about them and she said my aunt makes them a lot so I’m going to see if I can get a tutorial:). I think they’d be great gifts!