Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallows
This time of year does something to me. Something takes over in my brain and I can’t do anything about it. I have tried to fight it for years but, it always wins. The older I get the stronger the impulse to “BAKE!” When the weather starts to get cooler, I can’t pry myself out of the kitchen. No matter how tired I am, I HAVE to bake. My family loves it and my neighbors need to throw their diets out the window because I will deliver goodies to their doors! This year, I decided to give myself a motto, “It’s fall so bake it ALL” and let’s start with these homemade chocolate covered marshmallows.
Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallows! I need them! The store didn’t have them! I thought for sure they would have them because every fall, I buy the ones that look like pumpkins. NOPE! It’s not fall yet. They had Halloween candy but, no chocolate covered marshmallows. NONE! When I asked the nice cashier told me they didn’t have them a switch flipped in my brain and the baking began. That was all it took to make me go to the kitchen and bake everything I can get my hands on. I can’t wait to share everything with you.
Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallows
Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallows
Ingredients
- 2-1/4 oz Packages of Unflavored Gelatin
- 6 Tablespoons of water
- 1 1/3 cups of sugar
- 1/2 cups + 2 Tablespoons of Light Corn Syrup
- 1/4 cup of water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Line a 9x9 pan with parchment paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- Pour the 2 packages of unflavored Gelatin with 6 tablespoons of water in a large mixing bowl or your KitchenAid mixing bowl. Set aside.
- In a medium saucepan over high heat, mix sugar, water, and light corn syrup. Cook until it reaches 240 degrees. Slowly pour the sugar mixture into the Gelatin and mix on low speed until all the sugar mixture is added. Then, increase to high speed and mix for 5-10 minutes until it reaches the stiff-peak stage. Add the salt and vanilla and mix. You can also add other flavors such as 1 tsp peppermint extract.
- Pour marshmallow into pan. Spray the top of the marshmallows with non-stick cooking spray and cover with a second piece of parchment paper and let sit overnight.
- Cut with cookie cutters.
- The marshmallow recipe is by Rachel Coyle in Ready Made Magazine.
Start by spraying a 9×9 pan with non-stick cooking spray and line it with a piece of parchment paper.
Then, spray the top of the parchment paper and set it aside.
Mix 2-4 oz packages of unflavored Gelatin with 6 tablespoons of water and set aside. The water and gelatin will react with each other and make a gel while you work on the sugar mixture.
Mix 1 1/3 cups of sugar, 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons of light corn syrup and 1/4 cup water in a medium saucepan.
Cook over high heat until a candy thermometer reaches 240 degrees Fahrenheit. It is also known as the soft ball stage because when you drop a drop of the sugar mixture into cold water, it will form a soft ball. BEWARE: one of the worst burns I’ve ever had is from this sugar mixture. It is HOT and will stick to your skin so be careful!!
With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the sugar mixture into the Gelatin mixture. Once it is all added, turn the mixer on high and mix for 5-10 minutes. Mix until it reaches the stiff peak stage.
Next, add the salt.
Then, add the vanilla extract and mix until combined.
It should make stiff peaks and be very sticky at this stage.
Pour marshmallows into the pan lined with parchment paper. Spray the top of the marshmallows with non-stick cooking spray and cover with parchment paper. Let sit overnight.
Next, add the marshmallows to a powdered sugar cutting board. Pick some cutters and begin cutting out shapes.If your cutters get sticky, dip them into powdered sugar.Cut the scraps into pieces and eat or use them in hot cocoa. They are so good!
Then, roll the marshmallow shapes in powdered sugar and place them into a colander and lightly shake off the excess powder sugar.
Shake off as much sugar as you can so the chocolate will stick. Insert a stick into each cutout and dip into melted chocolate.
I used Nestle Semi-Sweet but, you could use cute colored candy melts. I think these would be really cute in fall colors. After I dipped them, I inserted the sticks into a round Styrofoam cake dummy to let them dry.
Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallows:
I don’t need to go to the drug store now to get my chocolate covered marshmallows. I can make my own;) There are a lot of marshmallow recipes out there. I got this one from Rachel Coyle in Ready Made Magazine. I like marshmallows but, these are way better than what you get in the store. If you have never made your won, you should try it. You can cut them the size and shape you want and add fun flavors. I already have ideas for Christmas!
Bear hugs,
I LOVE chocolate covered marshmallows as well! I always buy them to put in my girls Christmas stockings and eat them before Christmas. I do that over and over again until Christmas morning, sometimes they don’t even get their marshmallow! 🙂 Now I can just make my own and eat til my hearts content! LOVE thee!
I want to keep my stocking at your house this Christmas! It sounds like a great tradition!! 😉
I love that everyone is starting to post fall treats – I LOVE fall and after such a hot summer in Virginia, I am ready for it!
These looks excellent and so fun 🙂
I am so sorry you are still having hot days Jannifer! I hope it cools down soon so you can bake in comfort! We only had a cool day or 2 here and now it is hot again. It will be fall before we know it!
Super duper adorable and your fall-toned staging is perfect!
We’re expecting (another) heat wave in a few days, which I’m dreading as we’re sans a/c. Normally in Southern California that’s no big deal, but this summer… forget about it! I can’t wait for fall so that my sugar cookies can stop spotting and I can fire up my oven!
Awe Michelle! I hope it cools down soon because I want to see your great creations!!! Silly heat keeping you from baking!! LOL Stay cool my friend! Fall will be here soon!
I am obsessed with making marshmallows! I love trying different flavors and I am starting to color and cut them cute too. Yours are adorable!!
I can’t wait to see what you do!! Colors and flavors?? YES, YES, YES!!! My head is spinning from your comment!! I want more flavors and more gelatin and I need colors!!
Do you have Shauna’s book? It got me hooked!!
Shauna WHO?? I must know! lol
haha you’re so funny. http://shaunasever.com/
you’re going to die, it’s the cutest book ever!!
Yum! These look so amazing!!! I love marshmallows, and I’m sure these would be the best ever!
Thanks Glory! I would love to see what you would make out of a marshmallow!! I know it would be incredible!!!!
I live in Texas and I was wondering if by chance you would know what problems/solutions I might have with this humidity? I also love marshmallows, watched Martha make them and said oh ok never mind… but your instructions actually look do-able( is that a word?)
Are you having problems with cookies? Sweet Sugar Belle lives in Texas and she uses an oscillating fan to help dry her icing. I also have a friend that lives in Cancun (Cancun Cookies) and she uses a Dehumidifier and said her cookies dry a lot faster and her colors don’t bleed. I would try the fan first because it is cheaper. If that doesn’t work, try a dehumidifier.
Hope this helps;)
Lisa:
I have NEVER made marshmallows before…always too intimidated! But you made it look easy breezy. I am going to try this for a party coming up – I think the kids will like it…and some of them are “gluten free” so this will be a perfect dessert!
Talk about gourmet! These look fantastic! GREAT photos!