Homemade Marshmallows

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These aren't an easy recipe, but it is well written and fun to make. After making one plain batch, I wanted to try it with other flavors. I feel that the test of a good recipe is one that is versatile, and these are it. I made peppermint today and topped them with crushed candy canes. Super yummy!

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I make homemade marshmallows every year along with hot cocoa mix. I always make mine into dollops of marshmallow to float on top of my hot chocolate (if any are left after my husband and girls get done sneaking them! Creating the dollops is easy... Omit the cooking spray. Lay down waxed paper or parchment on a flat surface. Cover the waxed paper with a dusting of the powdered sugar mixture. Once the extract is mixed in, spoon the marshmallow into a pastry bag with a #199 tip (or a large opening and pipe out into dollops. I allow mine to set up about 30 minutes and then top each with a small sprinkling of crushed peppermint candy. I also use peppermint extract instead of the vanilla but only 1/2 tsp. once the marshmallows are completely set up, dust with the remaining powdered sugar mixture, remove from waxed paper, and store!

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I went overboard this year and made AB's marshmallows in many different flavors: peppermint (natch chocolate, vanilla, raspberry, butter rum, cinnamon, coconut, and maple. The cinnamon were by far the favorite. I made the maple by substituting real maple syrup for the corn syrup and it worked wonderfully. You can use extracts or fruit puree to change the flavor. Alcohol somehow screws up the fluffiness, but maybe you can put it in the sugar syrup and boil away the alcohol? I've also heard that too much fat ruins the recipe so the marshmallows aren't fluffy.

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Tasty but didn't top my pie well...melted right off! Didn't get as fluffy as the recipe with egg whites, either.

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Tasted great and relatively easy to make.

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Grand-Daughter and i made these today! What fun = We did change up the recipe w/kosher gelatin, no salt and honey to replace the corn syrup, We also toasted up 5+ cups of coconut and used 2 tsp of coconut extract to replace the vanilla. We used a scant 3/4 cup of honey which was too much i would dial it back to a scant 3/8 cup. The bowl was licked clean as was the beater! i'm not sure they will get a chance to harden for s'mores for their up coming camping weekend. i don't know who's more excited Grands or g-ma = Our next endeavor will be chocolate mint. i've been reading through the reviews for how much of each to use. Thank you too much Mr. Brown!

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These were very good and not too hard to make.
It's okay to make them in high humidity. I live in Alabama and the humidity was like 85% the day I made them and they turned out fine. Most candies can't take that.
One thing the recipe doesn't point out is that most cooking sprays have a flavor. On things like cakes that usually doesn't matter, but I could taste the weird flavor of my cooking spray in my marshmallows. Everyone else loved them and didn't mind. You should probably use shortening or something like that that has no real flavor. That's what I'm doing next time!

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Awesome. I couldn't even get my mixture to 240 degrees, but they worked perfectly anyway. Maybe not the best for smores, as I had hoped, but still good. I can't wait to make them as gifts! One of the best parts of this recipe was that it uses common ingredients that I usually keep around; others used strange things that I may have had to go buy and then store in the back of the cabinet.

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Great recipe! I infused the syrup with lavendar flowers (a few fresh flower stalks and a vanilla bean for an amazing and unique candy. I just strained my syrup into the stand mixer bowl. I have a tip for those that are making the regular marshmallows and then cutting them with a pizza cutter--once you've cut them all into squares, they will still be sticking together quite a bit and you have to pull them apart. To make coating them with the sugar mixture easier, I separated one row at a time and coated each row side with the sugar before pulling apart each piece to get the remaining sides. You could also put several pieces in a plastic or paper bag with the sugar mixture and shake it to coat. Or else it gets tedious coating each side so they don't stick together in their container. I also whipped my syrup for about 13 minutes and got a nice, soft yet firm, marshmallow. I think it was the perfect eating marshmallow.

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Easy! They taste great, and look beautiful dipped in melted chocolate.