- Hey dudes, I'm Hilah and today
on "Hilah Cooking" we're making homemade marshmallows.
I'm gonna show you how to do a
pumpkin spice marshmallow twist,
you can do classic or fancy for Halloween.
I think marshmallows are a great Halloween snack to make
because they are gelatin-based,
and everyone knows gelatin is made out of the
bones and hooves of sweet little ponies,
so it's like witch food.
(funky techno music)
To start out, we're gonna put some cold water
into a mixing bowl,
and very, very slowly and gently sprinkle your
unsweetened, unflavored gelatin over the top.
And once you've got all your gelatin there,
if you need to add another tablespoon or two of water,
if it looks a little dry on top,
you can go ahead and do that,
and then just set that aside.
And then over here in a pot, we're going to make our syrup.
We've got water, we're gonna add some corn syrup
and sort of get this dissolved a little bit.
Try not to slosh it up on the sides at all,
and here, corn syrup is an invert sugar,
so it's gonna prevent any crystallization from forming,
so you don't end up with chunky, gritty marshmallows.
You can add your regular granulated sugar.
And notice how it looks like all the glaciers are melting,
and that's a sad island full of people
that are slowly drowning because of
driving too many cars and stuff,
and cows farting.
So, think about that
because that's Halloween-y, right?
That's kind of creepy and sad.
Then we're just gonna add a pinch of salt,
and get that to mix up together.
The sugars not gonna be fully dissolved,
that's okay.
Again, just try not to slosh it up
and make a big mess.
You can put it over low heat.
Once it starts boiling, you can increase the heat
and we're gonna cook this syrup to
between 243-245 degrees,
somewhere in there.
Once your syrup has reached temperature,
this will probably take about 10 minutes or so,
you can start slowly pouring it into the gelatin
as your beating it with a whisk.
I do not recommend trying to do this recipe
if you don't have a stand mixer.
I'm sorry, but I can't recommend it.
So just slowly pour it in a thin stream,
try not to splatter it too much,
try not to pour it directly onto the whisk,
and you can see it'll start dissolving the gelatin
almost immediately.
Once all your syrups in there, don't scrape the pan.
Just pour out what pours out.
Once you've got all that in there,
you wanna increase the speed to medium,
and let it go for about 8 minutes.
By then it'll be really soft still
but much fluffier and airier.
At this point, you can add
any flavorings or colorings you want to add.
I'm gonna use vanilla extract
and some food coloring to make them orange.
But if you wanted classic marshmallows,
just do the vanilla extract
and leave out any kind of coloring.
Then you wanna beat it for another minute or two,
until it looks like this.
It's still runny enough to pour,
and it's almost cool.
And then here, I've got a pan that I've prepared already
with a little bit of spray oil
and then I just dusted it with some
corn starch, powder sugar, and pumpkin pie spice.
Again, for classic marshmallows,
just leave out the pie spice.
Then, spread your marshmallow mixture
out into your pan,
sprinkle some more of your powder mixture on top,
and then let this cool completely,
and then cover it with some foil
and let it sit for four hours or overnight,
or even up to a couple of days.
Okay, so once a couple days goes by,
your marshmallows have been sitting here,
you don't really have any recollection of the last 48 hours,
because maybe there was a witch spell or something involved,
either way, this is what we're looking at.
You should just be able to sort of get a little corner
and peel it out of there.
Woah.
Who wants a marshmallow in their hot chocolate?
So yeah, you could totally just cut these into squares,
and make a little hot chocolate thing.
Or you could get a pumpkin cookie cutter,
like I have,
because I thought ahead,
and cut out some little shapes.
And there we go,
we got super cute pumpkin spice marshmallow.
And I've got some here that I made before,
that I just did regular vanilla
and cut them into ghosts.
You could probably do cocoa on the outside
and do some bats or some cats or something like that.
So if you make these, please take a picture,
send it to me on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook,
I would love to see it.
I hope everyone has a great and happy and safe Halloween.
See if I can get all these in my mouth,
without messing up my lipstick.
(muffled noises)