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Mega Marshmellow

by Mama Mallow and Baby Mallow 6 photos Rated 77% 246 votes when voting closed

3 packets of marshmallows; cost £1.74

Three unopened bags of Sainsbury's marshmallows stacked on a wooden kitchen table

Melt, stir, melt, stir, prod, melt, stir, slap away son’s hand when he tries to stick his finger in the melty stuff, prod, prod, melt, stir, ooh look it’s finally runny, turn off gas.

Marshmallows melting to a pink goo in a bowl over a pan, wooden spoon stirring

Prepare mould with greaseproof paper and cornflour…. er, no cornflour…. rats! Have to be ordinary flour then, no one will notice.

Round plastic tub lined with baking parchment as a mould, opened marshmallow bag beside it

Find that marshmallow already beginning to set, turn on gas and melt and prod a bit more, then ladle into mould. Put mould into the ‘fridge, then go and change top which is now covered in sticky pink stuff – it’s worse than chewing gum.

Pink melted mixture in a bowl over a pan, with a tubful already poured to set

Remove from ‘fridge when it looks to be set. Slap away son’s hand… "no you may NOT stick your finger in it!"…. and tip out of mould. Now comes the hard bit… the marshmallow is stuck (flour notwithstanding) to the greaseproof paper. I need cornflour…. double rats; still no cornflour. Brainwave! Liberal sprinklings of custard powder on every sticky surface as it emerges, and things are beginning to take shape.

Peeling the parchment lining away from the set pink marshmallow over an icing-sugar-dusted board

Et voila.

The finished fist-sized pink marshmallow next to an ordinary one for scale

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