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You will be cooking this syrup until it until it reaches 245F. Gently swirl the pan occasionally to distribute the heat, but do not stir.

In a small saucepan, heat 1/4 c water and granulated sugar together over medium-low heat.

Place 1/2 c of cold water in a small bowl and sprinkle the gelatin over the water.

(Note: a 9x13 does work if you want thinner marshmallows.)

Grease an 8x8 pan and dust generously with the Marshmallow Dusting Mixture.

No strings of sugar, just incredibly fluffy and bouncy marshmallows. Maybe if I had been using a stand mixer rather than a hand mixer, my results would have been different.įor now, I’ll be sticking with David’s Lebovitz’s method. I can’t really speak to the texture of the marshmallows made by this method, because I stopped beating about three minutes into the ten required for the proper volume. The moment I started my mixer up again, my beaters folded in on themselves. I stopped for a moment to scrape the beaters down, and that’s about when all was lost.

I even began to wonder if there would be a difference.Īnd then, the more I beat my syrup and gelatin, the more my hand mixer started to whine.Īnd, honestly, I would whine too if I had a sticky, gloopy, marshmallow mess climbing, uncontrollably up my beaters. The other method started off similarly enough. The messy way to make homemade marshmallows In fact, the end result was a marshmallow mixture that scooped nicely into my prepared mold and set up into an INCREDIBLY fluffy marshmallow. But, even taking pauses in between the steps to re-check the recipe didn’t result in failure. It was a lot going on at once, heating, beating, melting, beating. The easy way to make homemade marshmallows I decided to take matters into my own hands and see for myself which method rose above. Instead of beating the sugars with the gelatin and then adding the egg whites, he added the sugar syrup and softened gelatin to the beaten egg whites and then continued to beat until the mixture was cool. His method differed, and I was intrigued.

However, I still had one more trusted source to consult. Once you get the lift, you whip up the egg whites to stiff peaks and beat the whites into your sticky, fluffy mixture.Įveryone warned about the sticky mess you would get yourself into. Then you whip that mixture with vigor until it triples in volume.

The method that everyone seemed to use was to heat a sugar syrup to roughly 245F (soft-ball stage) and then pour it over softened gelatin. Two methods for making homemade marshmallows Those who didn’t use the egg whites always commented on the dense texture. But, after reading comments on A LOT of recipes, it seemed to me that egg whites were the key to a fluffy marshmallow. While researching making marshmallows from scratch, I found a number of recipes, all using different ratios of sugar to water to gelatin. The ingredients for great homemade marshmallows Give me a bag, and it’s a struggle for me not to keep stuffing them into my mouth.Īpparently it is, and it is much easier than I would have ever thought. A friend in a Bible study made them with her kids. I remember the first time I had a homemade marshmallow. Have you ever tried homemade marshmallows? They’re the perfect addition to winter hot chocolate! The process is easy and won’t leave you tangled in a sticky, stringy mess. This homemade marshmallows recipe makes super fluffy corn syrup free marshmallows.