Marshmallows

Marshmallows for Australia day

Making marshmallows was easier than I had expected. I used a slight variation of this recipe. It's a fairly easy recipe but these are my tips.

Ingredients
1.5 Cups Caster Sugar
20g Gelatine (2 table spoons)
Vanilla Essence
1 cup dessicated coconut
1 cup icing sugar
Food colouring

Recipe
1. Mix gelatine in 2/3 cup cold water and let it sit for at least 10 minutes
2. Add sugar and 2/3 cups water to sauce pan and heat on medium heat.
3. Keep stirring sugar until the syrup forms a firm ball. Alternatively heat it until it reach 250°F on a candy thermometer. (See this for more info)
4. Take sugar syrup off heat and combine with gelatine mixture.
5. Beat sugar/gelatine mixture using a beater for about 10 minutes until it is quite thick.
6. Beat in vanilla essence
7. Separate marshmallow mixture into two bowls and add desired colouring
8. Line a large tray with baking paper and dust paper generously with icing sugar.
9. Pour marshmallow mix onto tray
10. Let it set overnight
11. Colour coconut with desired colour
12. Toast coconut on a frying pan for a few minutes until it starts to brown.
13. Combine coconut with icing sugar
14. Slice up marshmallow into pieces and coat with the coconut mixture.

My first attempt (or perhaps it was my 2nd)