Merry Ex-Mas!

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday, whatever it was that you celebrated. Coming back from a four day weekend is hard! But, I’m finally back in the swing of things, and have a chance to update the blog. I’m lucky enough to have had a great and mostly relaxing vacation. Spending most of my time in the kitchen at my parents house baking. I was very excited to try out a new-to-me recipe for marshmallows. I’ve never tried marshmallows before, and was slightly intimidated. I was inspired by Alexis Stewart of Whatever Radio who made the coconut version for Christmas. The original recipe is here on epicurious as was published in Gourmet (Dec 07).

They were so much easier than I though they would be, and tasted fabulous. I did however learn a few things. Sugar soaks back into them if you aren’t careful and you’ll end up with a sugary sticky mess. (Though it’s still a tasty mess). Mistakes were made, but learning and experimenting is half of the fun - the other half would of course be eating them. I made a coconut/vanilla batch, and a plain vanilla batch. The coconut ones are perfect for eating just as is, they are a great treat. The vanilla were dropped in hot cocoa!! [click to continue...]