Homemade Marshmallow Version 2

As you may know I've posted a recipe for homemade marshmallows before and theirs absolutly nothing wrong with that recipe, I should know, its one of my favorite treats for maintaining my metabolism. The reason for the new recipe is just the need to rotate our sweeteners. In a previous post I've stated that glucose is not the enemy, its more our use of it. When taken as part of a healthy balanced diet its actually very useful. However, if we eat too much of anything we build up a tolerance to it. To avoid that it makes sense to rotate your sweeteners regularly, glucose, honey, maple syrup and my favorite mineral dense blackstrap molasses. Not tried to make marshmallow with the molasses yet (I will though) but I have made an amazing batch using honey and another with maple syrup.

Honey Marshmallows

Its pretty much as before but I'll run through a brief method for you.

Ingredients

3 sachets gelatin (I use 6 as I like it extra chewy and full of protein)
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup organic honey or maple syrup (blackstrap molasses if your feeling brave but let me know how it goes)  
1/2 tsp. of any natural extract such as vanilla, lemon or orange.

Method

1. Put ¼ cup of water in a medium bowl and sprinkle the gelatin over the water.

2. Heat the honey and the other ¼ cup of water and use your candy thermometer to get the mixture to 240 degrees.

4. Carefully mix in the hot syrup into the gelatin mixture for 12- 15 minutes, or until the mixture it peaks. Add the natural extract and mix for a few more minutes. Pour into the container and leave to set (I prefer to set mine in the fridge).

5. Cut into squares, and enjoy.

For an interesting twist why not coat the container and the top of the marshmallow in desiccated coconut.

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