Biting into a real marshmallow is the eating equivalent of your head hitting your pillow at the end of a long day. So soft and nurturing that your heart gives a little sigh.
Real marshmallows are nothing like store-bought marshmallows. No matter what the marketers say. The store-bought kind tastes mostly of sugar and promises. Your homemade version melt so quickly and sweetly on the tongue that you'll momentarily wonder if this is what dreams taste like.
Once you make a batch of softly springy marshmallows, you'll never go back. Or, you might pick up a packet purely for jamming onto sticks and melting over the embers of the coals. Homemade marshmallows are far too good (and a little bit too melty) to waste on such a plain ritual.
Instead, put them into one of these recipes and let your heart sigh loudly with pleasure.
Not an artificial-anything in sight. Source: Alan Benson
You can also mix up choc peanut, or jam and coconut, or peppermint marshmallows using this same recipe. Source: Nicholas Watt
Trust Katherine Sabbath to give the Anzac biscuit the perfect makeover. Source: Adam Liaw
In a word: mallow-ificent. Source: Bake Australia Great by Katherine Sabbath
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Polly Waffle roll
Make a batch of s'mores ready for your next camping trip... or tonight. Source: The Chocolate Queen
Sweet potato in a tart works just as well as pumpkin in a pie. Especially when topped with light-as-air marshmallow. Source: Fried Chicken and Friends
Serve these novel twists on their own, or use them to embellish a special tart or cake. Source: Kirsten Tibballs
This recipe utilises titanium-strength gelatine - which actually weighs a trifling five grams. Being considered "titanium" in gelatine leaf circles does not require a lot. Source: Alan Benson
Use your new homemade marshmallows skills to lift these recipes
Any recipe using marshmallows is good, but it's even better when you toss in your homemade marshmallows rather than store-bought. Try it and see.
Just when you thought chocolate crackles couldn't get any better, marshmallow got involved... Source: The Chocolate Queen
"This is a great campfire oldie but a goodie, and possibly the only thing I remember from being a terrible Girl Guide," says Poh Ling Yeow. Source: China Squirrel
This blondie is caramelly, brown-butter deliciousness, fudgy and studded with chocolate chunks and marshmallows. Source: Mary's Kitchen Crush
Just let us dig in and never come out again. Source: China Squirrel
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Richo’s rocky road
Jam, marshmallow and chocolate French toast rolls are something extra-special. Source: Alan Benson
