homemade marshmallows are fun to make for special holidays like Easter.
HOMEMADE EASTER CUTOUT MARSHMALLOWS
Making homemade marshmallows is a tradition in our family. It’s not Easter without chocolate covered marshmallow Bunnies and Easter Eggs. We used a few different Easter Cookie Cutters to cut out Easter Holiday shapes.
We make marshmallows occasionally during the year when we have extra time. This past year has been quite hectic and I didn’t think we would have time to keep our tradition going.
Leave it to my grandsons and their fascination with youtube and came across Butter With A Side of Bread’s video for chocolate homemade marshmallows.
They convinced me this recipe was very easy and we could make homemade Easter cutout marshmallows in different Easter shapes in no time at all. That’s never gonna’ happen I’m thinking to myself, but they are very convincing. So I agreed.
We’ve always made marshmallows using Alton Brown’s recipe but when the boys showed me the video from Butter With A Side of Bread’s I thought they might be on to something good.
So we were in a marshmallow cloud this afternoon whipping up soft pillowy marshmallows. With their assistance, creativity and a lot of fun we had beautiful homemade Easter cutout marshmallows.
Homemade Easter Cutout Marshmallows
Homemade Easter Cutout Marshmallows. I used Monk Fruit in place of the granulated sugar and it worked perfectly. This recipe is adapted from www.butterwithasideofbread.com homemade chocolate marshmallows recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 packets of Knox unflavored gelatin
- 2/3 cup of cold water
- 3/4 cup Monk Fruit
- 1 1/3 cup Light Corn Syrup
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup Monk Fruit confectioners sugar
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For Chocolate Dipping: Chocolate Chips
For Tray Prep
Directions
Cover the counter/table with wax paper and place wire racks on top. Place the dipped marshmallows on the wire racks to drip and dry.
The boys had a great time going through the dozens of cookie cutters to find appropriate themed cutters and they picked out a few that weren’t but that didn’t matter. This is really about making memories and having a good time together.
To make this project quick and easy prep the pans with a mixture of flour and confectioner sugar. You can see below in the photo that cutting out the marshmallow shapes was quite easy. The little bit of non stick spray on the parchment is the key.
TIP: Dipping the marshmallows in chocolate is quite a messy job, this is one to do without the kids only because they will have the chocolate dripping all over the kitchen. It’s hard to keep it contained in one area – I don’t know why but the chocolate just seems to travel everywhere. The sprinkles are yet another story but the vacuum is key with sprinkles, so let the kids have fun!
So I’m shouting out a HUGE thank you to Butter With A Side of Bread’s for her video and a recipe that I will make more often than I did before.
To be fair I made a few changes to the preparation of the pans based on my previous marshmallow making experience which works very well. The kids loved cutting out the marshmallow shapes and everyone loved the delicious homemade Easter Cutout Marshmallows.
Happy Easter!
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