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Marshmallows

  • Time to make: 20 mins, plus 30 mins setting
  • Serving: 36 people (makes 36)
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 bottle (250ml) original 100% maple syrup (I used Steeves Maples) or 1 cup liquid honey
  • 2 tablespoons gelatine or
  • 1 tablespoon agar agar
  • ¼ cup cold water
  • ¼ cup cocoa 
  • ¼ cup cornflour
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Place gelatine in a blender bowl and add cold water. Leave to soak. Pour maple syrup into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Stir with a wooden spoon and boil for 2 more minutes. Remove from heat and leave for 5 minutes to cool.

    2 Pour warm maple syrup into the gelatine mix and stir. Beat with an electric beater until the brown liquid turns white and thick – thick enough so you can form patterns in it with your finger. This takes about 15 minutes.

    3 Spoon the white substance into a 20cm x 20cm dish lined with baking paper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut in small squares. Just before serving dust half of the squares with cocoa and half with cornflour.

    Variations

    • You can replace the maple syrup with a sugar-free version such as Queen Maple Syrup Sugar Free. If so, the beating time will increase by about 5 minutes.
    • Adding 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar to the warm syrup will make the marshmallows fluffier.

    HFG tip

    • Store marshmallows in the fridge.
    • The maple syrup gets super hot. Younger children will need help from an adult.
    • If the set marshmallows have a thin layer of gelatine at the bottom, the beating time was not long enough.
    • Agar agar, unlike gelatine, is made from a variety of seaweed so it is vegetarian.

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