yummy freshly made marshmallows right after cutting
even better after covered in chocolate...
This recipe was featured originally at one of Emeril's Halloween candy show as Lemon Marshmallows. I've done the exact recipe last year as gifts. It's good, but not as versatile as regular marshmallows... Lemon flavored hot cocoa just doesn't sound right :P This year I decided to make just a plain version of the recipe. While making it I added a bit of vanilla extract kinda of an after thought thinking it would be ok. Either I didn't whip it enough for the flavor to be blended in or maybe it's just the way the extract tastes, the marshmallow tastes a bit chemically by itself. Bleh... It tastes quite ok in hot cocoa though, thank God. Since I don't really have hot cocoa that often, I decided to experiment a bit to see if covering it in dark chocolate would mask the vanilla taste, and indeed! It goes perfectly well with dark chocolate and the whole thing turned into a very very yummy decadent treat! It is so easy I can't believe they charge about $18 for a box of 18 (plain, not even covered in chocolate) at William-Sonoma. That's like $1 per marshmallow! Goodness! It costs at most $1 to make a batch of about 5 or 6 dozen of plain ones at home, and about $15 worth of dark chocolate from Whole Food to cover them all. Cheaper chocolate would work too except I happened to have some Whole Food ones at hand anyway. Semi or bitter-sweet chocolate really complements the sweetness of the marshmallow without making the whole thing overly sweet.
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