Sunday evening, Callie came back over and we decided to try making the homemade marshmallows I'd seen over on Heather Bailey's blog last year. Hers were so pretty and she said they were easy to make.
Of course, our cooking experiences rarely go as planned and right off the bat we realized that I'd forgotten to buy parchment paper, but I decided to try the teflon baking sheets out instead.
As instructed, we mixed the water and gelatin in a bowl and waited for it to "blossom."
Meanwhile, we turned out attention to the mixture of water, sugar and corn syrup on the stove and fretted over what exactly the "soft ball stage" looked like. Finally after dropping several spoonfuls into cold water, we finally consulted an online video and made the decision that we were there. We mixed the two concoctions together and poured them into the baking pans to sit overnight.
The next morning, I worked for what seemed like an eternity to turn the mixtures out of their pans. They had stuck to the teflon linings and were quite tedious to release them. However, eventually I got them out and was able to cut them with a pizza cutter, as described in the recipe. I totally forgot to add the red food coloring the night before (which was so pretty in the pictures), but they did indeed look and feel like marshmallows after dipping them in sugar & rice flour.
Tasting them proved them to be like Altoids---"curiously strong"--but I think they'll be fine in hot cocoa! And once I put them into jars with labels, they made a really cute gifts!
Of course, our cooking experiences rarely go as planned and right off the bat we realized that I'd forgotten to buy parchment paper, but I decided to try the teflon baking sheets out instead.
As instructed, we mixed the water and gelatin in a bowl and waited for it to "blossom."
Meanwhile, we turned out attention to the mixture of water, sugar and corn syrup on the stove and fretted over what exactly the "soft ball stage" looked like. Finally after dropping several spoonfuls into cold water, we finally consulted an online video and made the decision that we were there. We mixed the two concoctions together and poured them into the baking pans to sit overnight.
The next morning, I worked for what seemed like an eternity to turn the mixtures out of their pans. They had stuck to the teflon linings and were quite tedious to release them. However, eventually I got them out and was able to cut them with a pizza cutter, as described in the recipe. I totally forgot to add the red food coloring the night before (which was so pretty in the pictures), but they did indeed look and feel like marshmallows after dipping them in sugar & rice flour.
Tasting them proved them to be like Altoids---"curiously strong"--but I think they'll be fine in hot cocoa! And once I put them into jars with labels, they made a really cute gifts!
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