Happy Halloween!

I don't usually do much with Halloween but these sugar-coated vanilla marshmallow ghosties were too hard to resist!

Freshly piped!

Looking good!

Basic recipe is here, just omit the cocoa and hot water.  Fill an icing bag with the mixture and pipe away.

Stuck in a rut

Just. Can't. Stop. Making. Marshmallows!

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Matcha (green tea) chocolate marshmallows

One healthy recipe here and now we’re back to sugar!  I’m addicted…to making marshmallows.  I find all that whisking quite relaxing and very satisfying for some reason.  I love that moment when the hot syrup hits the meringue and it all fluffs up!  Pure beauty!  Ok – maybe I’m getting a little too excited about hot sugar water!

Anyway, back to the marshmallows.  The green tea and chocolate balance out the sugar perfectly so that the sweetness doesn't overwhelm you.  These are my favourite so far!

Raspberry Chocolate Swirled Marshmallows

The weekend has flown past and Monday is poking its nasty head around the corner!  I have the Sunday night blues and there only one way to cure it!  Sugar! 

It’s been a month since my last marshmallow adventure hence, time for another one.

I don't like reinventing the wheel so this recipe is pretty much the same as the previous recipe that I used. 

Instead of a vanilla-chocolate combination, I used raspberry and chocolate.

The only extra addition was mixing in ¼ cup (approximately 60ml) of raspberry puree to the vanilla marshmallow mixture after Step 7 in this recipe.

And there you have it, swirls of sweet delight!

Fluffy clouds of chocolate and vanilla aka. Home-made marshmallows

It’s not an addiction…really…but sometimes, I just feel like sugar. Sugar, sugar and more sugar. I know it’s bad but I just can’t stop myself. For times like these, there are home-made marshmallows, marshmallows that are so sweet that they make your teeth squeak!I came across this recipe a while ago and had been saving it for a special sugar craving day. I added some cocoa which brought the sweetness down a notch.

Keep in mind that I’ve never actually eaten or attempted to make home-made marshmallows before and so I wasn’t sure what to expect.  However, they came out as I expected: like a soft super sweet melt-in-your-mouth cloud of chocolate and vanilla.   

Don’t be put off by the long list of instructions.  There’s just a little bit of preparation, a lot of whisking and you’ll be rewarded with soft fluffy marshmallows.