Homemade Marshmallows

Name: Homemade Marshmallows
Prep time: 2 h 35 min
Cook time: 2 h 35 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: 35
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps light corn syrup; 59 milliliters cornstarch; 3 larges egg whites; 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin; 237 milliliters granulated sugar; 59 milliliters powdered sugar; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

You can never have too many hor d'oeuvre recipes, so give Homemade Marshmallows a try. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 35 calories, 1g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 0% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 35. If you have gelatin, powdered sugar, egg whites, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Instructions

Coat a 9- by 13-in. pan with cooking-oil spray. Stir cornstarch and powdered sugar together in a large bowl, then dust pan with half of mixture, tipping to coat. Set remaining cornstarch mixture aside.

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Powdered Sugar

Corn Starch

Cooking Oil

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Bowl

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Put egg whites in the large bowl of a mixer. Stir 1/4 cup cool water and the gelatin in a glass measuring cup; let stand to soften while you make syrup.

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Egg Whites

Gelatin

Syrup

Water

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Measuring Cup

Blender

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Stir granulated sugar, corn syrup, and 2/3 cup water in a small saucepan. Insert a candy thermometer. Boil over high heat, tipping pan occasionally to cover thermometer bulb, until 240, 6 to 10 minutes. Immediately microwave gelatin mixture until it dissolves, about 30 seconds, and also beat egg whites on high speed into soft peaks. Stir steaming gelatin into hot syrup.

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Granulated Sugar

Corn Syrup

Egg Whites

Gelatin

Syrup

Water

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Candy Thermometer

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Microwave

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Pour about 3 tbsp. syrup at a time into egg whites (stop mixer if needed to keep syrup from flying up onto inside of bowl), beating on high speed 20 to 30 seconds after each addition. Continue to beat until meringue holds soft peaks and underside of bowl is completely cool, 5 to 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla.

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Egg Whites

Vanilla

Syrup

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Blender

Bowl

Spread marshmallow mixture in coated pan, using an oiled metal spatula.

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Marshmallows

Spread

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Spatula

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Let stand until firm enough to cut, 2 hours.

Sprinkle with 2 tbsp. reserved cornstarch mixture, then cut with a pizza cutter or scissors into 12 rectangles to fit graham crackers; you may have leftover marshmallows.

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Graham Crackers