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Massive Marshmellow

Ingredients:

3kg Caster Sugar
210g Gelatin
Icing Sugar
9 Cups of Water

Gelatine boxes, cornflour, bags of Tate & Lyle sugar and a bag of marshmallows beside a big stockpot

Step 1

Add water to gelatin and allow to bloom according to box instructions. Placewell away from anything as this stage smells very bad.

Water poured from a jug into a glass bowl of gelatine, Supercook box behind

Step 2

Dissolve the sugar and water over a gentle heat

Sugar and water stirred with a spoon in a saucepan on a ceramic hob

Step 3

Add gelatin to warm sugar water and disolve over a gentle heat. If your kitchen does not smell like a farmyard by now, you have done something wrong.

A pale blob of bloomed gelatine dissolving into bubbling syrup in a pan

Step 4

Once gelatin is dissolved bring to the boil slowly and do not allow to boilover (its a mission to clean up). Boil for 15 minutes without stirring.

Three saucepans of pale syrup and gelatine mixture side by side on the hob

Step 5

Pour all of the gelatin sugary water into a bucket. It should look somethinglike raw sewage and smell like a monkey enclosure in summer. Alow to cool until luke warm.

Step 6

Whisk the mixture until white and fluffy (add colourings and flavouring ifneccessary). In our case we whisked for 40 minutes in a shift pattern. The smell in your kitchen should now be of burning motors.

Pink marshmallow mix whipped with an electric hand mixer in a large metal bucket

Step 7

Pour mixture into second bucket. We lined ours with cling film as we weren’t sure if it would stick, a light greasing should suffice though.

Step 8

Allow to set for around 24-48 hours and turn out. Dust with icing sugar.

Giant pink marshmallow drum on a plate with two normal marshmallows beside it for scale

Enjoy roasted over a mahoosive bonfire.

A wedge cut from the giant pink marshmallow shows its aerated inside; knife and normal marshmallows alongside

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