Messes and Marshmallows

Confession: I forgot to take pictures of the whoopie pies I made for family and friends. Also forgot to take pictures of the candy cane marshmallows that accompanied the whoopie pies in their boxes. I do, however, have a picture of some of the mess that making said treats. For the record, my hand mixer is normally black.

I've also been really bad about updating this thing lately; life's been busy and I've been forgetful. So now I have to backtrack a little bit to catch up on some recent projects. Let's start with the Maple Marshmallows I made over a month ago that I never did a blog post about.

Essentially, I just substituted Maple Extract where the recipe called for Vanilla. These marshmallows were a softer marshmallow, think Peeps brand. Next time, I might add more gelatin to get more of a standard marshmallow texture, and use a shallower pan to make them smaller. Regardless, they were really good.