Finished the Marshmallows

After they sat for a while, I tried to peel off the plastic wrap, which was nearly impossible. This was because I was being too nice to the lump of hoof+sugar. Just TEAR it off! Let them get stretched and torn and misshapen. They will bounce right back.

Cut them into hunks, or whatever shape you can manage. Marshmallows are not particularly well-behaved.



Coat them in powdered sugar ASAP to quell the stickiness. You may even want to coat your fingers in powdered sugar before trying to cut them. It helps.




Then I tried to dip them into melted chocolate to make pretty half-chocolate, half-white rectangular solids. But alas! The powdered sugar made them less dippable. The chocolate just dripped right back off.

So, if you want to dip in chocolate, maybe you should only coat ONE END in powdered sugar and then dip the other end in chocolate. I really needed ten more minutes to play with them but we had to go so they just got clumps of chocolate plopped on top. It worked, but as you can see, they looked ridiculous!

Michele! The bad hoofy smell totally goes away as you furiously mix the gelatin and sugar together. First the gelatin smells like barn animals, then it smells like Jell-O, and then it smells like marshmallows.

They tasted good, and people ate some of them. They got powdered sugar everywhere, which caused a small amount of shouting and recriminations.

And that's the story of the homemade marshmallows.