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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat you’ll need to make homemade marshmallows with kids:<\/h3>\n\n- 1 cup water, divided<\/li>\n
- 2 packets Knox gelatin<\/li>\n
- 1 cup Honey<\/li>\n
- 1 teaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n
- 1 teaspoon Salt<\/li>\n
- Powdered Sugar for dusting<\/li>\n
- 1 cup size Measuring Cup<\/li>\n
- Stand Mixer with Wisk Attachment<\/li>\n
- Saucepan<\/li>\n
- Spatula<\/li>\n
- 8×8 Baking Pan<\/li>\n
- Parchment Paper<\/li>\n
- Candy Thermometer<\/li>\n
- Multiple kids of various ages<\/li>\n
- 1 large roll of Paper Towels<\/li>\n
- 1 bottle Countertop Cleaner<\/li>\n
- a pinch of Insanity<\/li>\n
- a crap ton of Patience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
How to make homemade marshmallows with kids:<\/h3>\n\n- Gather all your\u00a0supplies and children.<\/li>\n
- Have your 5-year-old fill the measuring cup with water.
![\"s](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/s-marshmallow.jpg\")
<\/a><\/li>\n- Use paper towels to clean up the water she spills.<\/li>\n
- Add gelatin and 1\/2 cup water to bowl of stand mixer.<\/li>\n
- Put remaining water in saucepan.<\/li>\n
- Ask your 7-year-old measure out 1 cup of honey.
![\"h](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/h-marsmallow.jpg\")
<\/a><\/li>\n- 5 minutes later, remove squeezy lid from honey and fill the rest of the measuring cup.<\/li>\n
- Add honey, vanilla and salt to saucepan, mix with spatula and place over medium-high heat.<\/li>\n
- Tell 5-year-old NOT to bring a chair over by the stove.<\/li>\n
- Remind kids not to touch the stove because it’s hot.<\/li>\n
- Wipe 2 year old’s hands and face with wet paper towel after he helps himself to the honey stuck in the measuring cup.<\/li>\n
- When honey mixture comes to a boil, put in candy thermometer.<\/li>\n
- Again, remind kids not to touch the stove because it’s still hot.<\/li>\n
- Prepare baking pan by lining with two pieces of parchment paper and sprinkle bottom with powdered sugar.<\/li>\n
- Watch temperature and your children get bored and leave the kitchen one by one.<\/li>\n
- Retrieve screaming baby and begin to nurse while watching temperature of honey mixture.<\/li>\n
- See 2-year-old trying to sprinkle the sugar all over the counter, cupboards and floor (atop the chair you asked the 5-year-old not to bring over). \u00a0Clean with paper towels and cleaner while trying not to yell.
![\"d](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/d-marshmallow.jpg\")
<\/a><\/li>\n- Notice honey mixture is about to boil over and reduce the heat.<\/li>\n
- Check temperature (you’re looking for mixture to reach 240 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/li>\n
- Wait. And wait. And wait.\u00a0 Get impatient when temperature plateaus at 225 and give up on heating the honey mixture.<\/li>\n
- Call kids back for the next step.<\/li>\n
- Remove baby from the boob and put in high chair.<\/li>\n
- Turn on stand mixture to low and slowly add honey mixture to gelatin. \u00a0Try your best to ignore the baby’s wailing as you handle the extremely hot, sticky liquid.<\/li>\n
- Scream for your 2-year-old not to touch the hot stove as he nearly lies on it trying to reach honeyed measuring cup (again, on the chair 5-year-old was not supposed to bring over that you haven’t had a chance to move because of nursing baby).<\/li>\n
- Turn stand mixer up to high.<\/li>\n
- Pick up crying baby and continue nursing while mixture beats.<\/li>\n
- As mixture splashes all over the place, realize you’re using your paddle attachment and not the wisk.
![\"homemade](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/homemade-marshmallow-2.jpg\")
<\/a><\/li>\n- Change attachment to the wisk and turn machine back to high for about 10 minutes.<\/li>\n
- When mixture is light and fluffy, return happy baby to high chair.
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<\/a><\/li>\n- Pour mixture into baking pan and smooth the top.<\/li>\n
- Use paper towels to clean up the baby spew everywhere since you forgot to burp him.<\/li>\n
- Clean the 2-year-old’s hands, again, and smooth his fingerprints out from the top of the marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Give in to letting your 5-year-old sprinkle powdered sugar on top of marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Clean up the powdered sugar all over the counter, again.<\/li>\n
- Ask “who wants a lick?” and listen to ensuing arguments about who gets to lick what.<\/li>\n
- Clean up sticky hands and faces.<\/li>\n
- Let marshmallow set up for 4-6 hours (or days).
![\"homemade](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/homemade-marshmallow.jpg\")
<\/a><\/li>\n- Throw the pot, bowl, wisk, measuring cups, spatula, etc. in the sink to wash another time.<\/li>\n
- Put all the kids to bed and collapse on the couch.<\/li>\n
- Vow next time to buy marshmallows instead of\u00a0freaking out about the corn syrup (after all, the 2-year-old hasn’t actually had a reaction to corn in a year and a half!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
After letting the marshmallows set, you can make bite size morsels:<\/h3>\n\n- Grease a knife.<\/li>\n
- Cut the marshmallow into your desired size.<\/li>\n
- Put some powdered sugar in a zip bag and add the cubed marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Have the kids take turns shaking the bag to coat the sticky sides of the marshmallows in the sugar<\/li>\n
- Clean up the spilled powdered sugar after the 2 year old accidentally unseals the bag but still shakes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I decided to try making homemade marshmallows with the kids. \u00a0Because of Doodle’s previous reaction to corn, I try as much as possible to stay away from corn syrup and since that is the first ingredient in standard marshmallows, homemade marshmallows seemed like a good idea. I’ve always shied away from trying to make homemade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,176,9,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-creative-kids","category-family-life","category-recipes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
How to make homemade marshmallows with kids:<\/h3>\n\n- Gather all your\u00a0supplies and children.<\/li>\n
- Have your 5-year-old fill the measuring cup with water.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Use paper towels to clean up the water she spills.<\/li>\n
- Add gelatin and 1\/2 cup water to bowl of stand mixer.<\/li>\n
- Put remaining water in saucepan.<\/li>\n
- Ask your 7-year-old measure out 1 cup of honey.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 5 minutes later, remove squeezy lid from honey and fill the rest of the measuring cup.<\/li>\n
- Add honey, vanilla and salt to saucepan, mix with spatula and place over medium-high heat.<\/li>\n
- Tell 5-year-old NOT to bring a chair over by the stove.<\/li>\n
- Remind kids not to touch the stove because it’s hot.<\/li>\n
- Wipe 2 year old’s hands and face with wet paper towel after he helps himself to the honey stuck in the measuring cup.<\/li>\n
- When honey mixture comes to a boil, put in candy thermometer.<\/li>\n
- Again, remind kids not to touch the stove because it’s still hot.<\/li>\n
- Prepare baking pan by lining with two pieces of parchment paper and sprinkle bottom with powdered sugar.<\/li>\n
- Watch temperature and your children get bored and leave the kitchen one by one.<\/li>\n
- Retrieve screaming baby and begin to nurse while watching temperature of honey mixture.<\/li>\n
- See 2-year-old trying to sprinkle the sugar all over the counter, cupboards and floor (atop the chair you asked the 5-year-old not to bring over). \u00a0Clean with paper towels and cleaner while trying not to yell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Notice honey mixture is about to boil over and reduce the heat.<\/li>\n
- Check temperature (you’re looking for mixture to reach 240 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/li>\n
- Wait. And wait. And wait.\u00a0 Get impatient when temperature plateaus at 225 and give up on heating the honey mixture.<\/li>\n
- Call kids back for the next step.<\/li>\n
- Remove baby from the boob and put in high chair.<\/li>\n
- Turn on stand mixture to low and slowly add honey mixture to gelatin. \u00a0Try your best to ignore the baby’s wailing as you handle the extremely hot, sticky liquid.<\/li>\n
- Scream for your 2-year-old not to touch the hot stove as he nearly lies on it trying to reach honeyed measuring cup (again, on the chair 5-year-old was not supposed to bring over that you haven’t had a chance to move because of nursing baby).<\/li>\n
- Turn stand mixer up to high.<\/li>\n
- Pick up crying baby and continue nursing while mixture beats.<\/li>\n
- As mixture splashes all over the place, realize you’re using your paddle attachment and not the wisk.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Change attachment to the wisk and turn machine back to high for about 10 minutes.<\/li>\n
- When mixture is light and fluffy, return happy baby to high chair.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Pour mixture into baking pan and smooth the top.<\/li>\n
- Use paper towels to clean up the baby spew everywhere since you forgot to burp him.<\/li>\n
- Clean the 2-year-old’s hands, again, and smooth his fingerprints out from the top of the marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Give in to letting your 5-year-old sprinkle powdered sugar on top of marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Clean up the powdered sugar all over the counter, again.<\/li>\n
- Ask “who wants a lick?” and listen to ensuing arguments about who gets to lick what.<\/li>\n
- Clean up sticky hands and faces.<\/li>\n
- Let marshmallow set up for 4-6 hours (or days).<\/a><\/li>\n
- Throw the pot, bowl, wisk, measuring cups, spatula, etc. in the sink to wash another time.<\/li>\n
- Put all the kids to bed and collapse on the couch.<\/li>\n
- Vow next time to buy marshmallows instead of\u00a0freaking out about the corn syrup (after all, the 2-year-old hasn’t actually had a reaction to corn in a year and a half!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
After letting the marshmallows set, you can make bite size morsels:<\/h3>\n\n- Grease a knife.<\/li>\n
- Cut the marshmallow into your desired size.<\/li>\n
- Put some powdered sugar in a zip bag and add the cubed marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Have the kids take turns shaking the bag to coat the sticky sides of the marshmallows in the sugar<\/li>\n
- Clean up the spilled powdered sugar after the 2 year old accidentally unseals the bag but still shakes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I decided to try making homemade marshmallows with the kids. \u00a0Because of Doodle’s previous reaction to corn, I try as much as possible to stay away from corn syrup and since that is the first ingredient in standard marshmallows, homemade marshmallows seemed like a good idea. I’ve always shied away from trying to make homemade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,176,9,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-creative-kids","category-family-life","category-recipes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/li>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/a><\/li>\nAfter letting the marshmallows set, you can make bite size morsels:<\/h3>\n\n- Grease a knife.<\/li>\n
- Cut the marshmallow into your desired size.<\/li>\n
- Put some powdered sugar in a zip bag and add the cubed marshmallow.<\/li>\n
- Have the kids take turns shaking the bag to coat the sticky sides of the marshmallows in the sugar<\/li>\n
- Clean up the spilled powdered sugar after the 2 year old accidentally unseals the bag but still shakes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I decided to try making homemade marshmallows with the kids. \u00a0Because of Doodle’s previous reaction to corn, I try as much as possible to stay away from corn syrup and since that is the first ingredient in standard marshmallows, homemade marshmallows seemed like a good idea. I’ve always shied away from trying to make homemade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,176,9,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-creative-kids","category-family-life","category-recipes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I decided to try making homemade marshmallows with the kids. \u00a0Because of Doodle’s previous reaction to corn, I try as much as possible to stay away from corn syrup and since that is the first ingredient in standard marshmallows, homemade marshmallows seemed like a good idea. I’ve always shied away from trying to make homemade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,176,9,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-creative-kids","category-family-life","category-recipes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}