Homemade Marshmallows

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Very tasty and fun to make! I live in Denver, so a few adjustments needed to be made--cooked the sugar syrup to 231 degrees, which takes considerably longer than the recipe indicates; however, once the syrup is incorporated into the gelatin, it only took 10 minutes to whip it into a luscious fluffy mixture. As many others did, I increased the vanilla to 2 teaspoons. I plan to dip most of these in dark chocolate and give them as gifts--that is if there are any left. My family LOVES them!

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So easy. Like mentioned below, I added cocoa to them and they turned out wonderful. I also dipped them in a chocolate coating to dress them up for gift baskets.

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Uber-tasty! Used the 2 tsp of vanilla as recommended by other reviewers. Poured out half of the batch into a pan and then mixed in a tbsp of cocoa to the last half. Also added some cocoa to the dusting sugar mix after the first part of the batch was coated. They melt in your mouth. I'm addicted!!! CANNOT wait to make some more with additional flavors. I'm thinking peppermint for holiday gifts. Sticky to make, but fun and SOOO worth it!

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You can make these marshmallows without any corn syrup! Just use two cups of sugar total and no corn syrup - they still come out tasting just like marshmallows and the consistency is great. Also, powdered sugar has corn starch in it - you can find powdered sugar that has tapioca starch instead and you can use that, skipping the corn starch alltogether. So fun to make your own marshmallows! (You can also use other extracts instead of vanilla to make other flavors.

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this recipe was great! I gave it 4 stars because I feel the cornstarch is unnecessary and also I don't use cooking spray at all unless I'm at work! I use shortening to grease all of my pans so I foiled my pan and used shortening and just straight up powdered sugar. I thought they were great and brought some to work(I work in a kitchen so we have a lot of opinions on foodand everyone LOVED them! I think I am going to try different flavors of gelatin and give these out to the family for xmas. Maybe even thinking I will cut them into all different shapes. we shall see. VERY EASY and I recommend it!

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We can't hardly eat store marshmallows after making these. Love them and make them often! Try different flavors like orange etc. They're really wonderful!

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Uh... AMAZING!!! I made these (regular style and they turned out perfectly... I must say though they almost ruined my stand mixer... The motor started to over heat and the speed was noticeably working too hard... I love marshmallow and have always wanted to make a batch that turned out great... Finally I did. Then I melted about 1/2 this recipe down and made "puffed rice treats." They were even better than anything you've had from your childhood. Thanks Alton.

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Perfect everytime!! Instead of packaged candy this Halloween , I wrapped up bags of these for my neighbors' kids, Big Hit!

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I've made these a bunch of times now and for the first time today threw in a couple handfuls of chocolate chips at the end of the mixing. The chips melted almost immediately and make the marshmallows a lovely color. They taste great!

I usually make s'mores by layering a mini-Hershey bar, then a 1/4 square of graham cracker and a square of marshmallow. Stick a festive toothpick until it just pierces the chocolate and you've got a great holiday party dessert. Always a hit!

If you plan to use a cookie cutter to make shapes, be sure to spray the cutter with a good amount of Pam inside and out.

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This recipe came out great, and it was the first time I got to use a candy thermometer! It took longer than 8 minutes for my sugar to get to the right temperature, but that's the only thing that was different.
It was a little tricky getting the giant marshmallow out of the pan, but once it start to peel off it was easy since it was so springy.
I used 2 tsp of vanilla as recommended by others, and it was perfect (I really dislike too much vanilla in my recipes. I also used more powdered sugar than cornstarch, but I just eyeballed it and couldn't tell you specific amounts.
I had to use the whisk on my electric egg beater since I don't have a stand mixer, but it works. It got a little tough at the end and I wasn't sure if the motor could keep up with the thick marshmallow, but it did!
I will definitely be making these again!