Comments on: Peppermint Marshmallows

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Fuji Sushi — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 03:43:41 +0000

Yum! And pinned! Thanks for sharing!

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By: megan

megan — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:53:04 +0000

In reply to Beka.

I’m so sorry it didn’t go well for you! I’ve made this recipe a few times with no problems, but I agree that they can be a little difficult to work with. A few things that might help if you try again. Try to time everything so that your sugar mixture doesn’t have to sit long. My egg whites whipped pretty quickly, so my sugar mixture didn’t really sit at all, which will make a big difference. Your egg whites certainly shouldn’t take 30 minutes to whip – did you use an electric mixer? Were your eggs fresh? (I don’t know if that makes a difference, but it’s worth checking) Also, I don’t remember my gelatin having a smell, but you really don’t need to heat it much, just enough to get it to dissolve. I would guess the main problem was having the sugar mixture sit too long, and it just got worse from there. I don’t think you can really fix it if everything hardens too soon. If you have more specific questions, feel free to email me and we can try to figure it out together, and please let me know if you try again 🙂

By: Beka

Beka — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:04:42 +0000

I’ve been meaning to try these marshmallows for some time, and now that I finally have a candy thermometer, I was excited to give them a go.
I’m afraid it didn’t go so well…
The sugar mixture took forever to come up to temp, 15-20 minutes at high heat, boiling away, don’t know if this is normal? Then as it sat, it crusted over, as I feared, then turned white and started to get hard, so I had to scrape it out of the pan and mix it with the gelatin early, to prevent hard candy forming in the pan. The gelatin smelled bad while heating, like wet cat or animal hair (maybe I overheated it?) The egg whites took longer than usual to get whipped, at least 30 minutes of aggressive beating, still they hadn’t formed real peaks. I stirred in the gelatin mix anyways, hoping that would give it some volume, and had to constantly scrape the sugary goo down the sides of the bowl, where the mixer was slinging it all. I mixed it till frothy and sort of thick, didn’t have the patience by then for beating it a full quarter hour as instructed.
I scraped and plopped it into the glass pan, and it refused to spread, like a pile of rubber in the middle, snapping back into place each time. I melted it, which made it pourable and spreadable, but the green food coloring I used (which I added while still in the bowl) melded into it and produced a sickly green color. Stirring it deflated it, and the final result was like melted mint ice cream, making a thin layer on the bottom of the glass dish. Quite a sticky mess to clean up now, and what I tasted out of the bowl was nothing to rave about. Slicing it out of the pan was more like dealing with strips of soft, sticky rubber than any marshmallow I’ve known.
Humbling experience, but I think I’ll leave marshmallow-making to the pros and the more fortunate. Definitely not what I would call easy to make though, even if all went well. Very time-consuming too, I think I spent two hours total.
A shame, since the photos look good (waaay better than mine) and I love the recipes you share otherwise. This just isn’t for me it seems.
Hope others have better luck, if they feel up to this.

By: Accutane

Accutane — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:16:48 +0000

So many great uses for this one. Can’t wait for the holidays!

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By: megan

megan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:22:30 +0000

In reply to Stacy. Thanks for the comment, I'm so glad you liked them! Good idea to roll them in powderd sugar. :)

By: Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:01:12 +0000

I made these to go along with homemade hot chocolate truffle balls as gifts. They turned out fab! I’ve rolled them in icing sugar because they stick to EVERYTHING lol I’m sure they will be a big hit. Thanks for the recipe 🙂

By: megan

megan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:48:46 +0000

In reply to Kerrie. Thanks so much for your sweet comment! I'm so glad you liked these and good idea giving them as gifts. :)