The Marshmallow Bakery is Open

Finding new recipes that feature marshmallows is good. Elevating that recipe to include a home-made gourmet marshmallow is mind-blowingly good. 

I love making marshmallows, but what really soothes my soul is baking treats with marshmallows in them.

I fell in love with a brownie

It started with a marshmallow brownie. I found a recipe for a brownie that incorporated marshmallows and tried it out. I was hooked. The recipe calls for making a fudgy chocolatey brownie. It then melts marshmallows on top and is further topped

with a milk chocolate crisp rice cereal peanut butter topping to give a bit of extra crunch and to add a slight taste of peanut butter into the mix to break up the richness of the brownie. The marshmallows are a sweet vanilla addition that provides a chewy bite. The marshmallows stretch and pull as you bite into the brownie to give an extra rewarding incredibly satisfying sensation in every rich brownie bite.

Childhood Favorite Still Holds Up

And after that I was hooked, I moved on to experimenting with cookies and developing an update on the Fluffernutter sandwich. I remember after school a friend and I would make fluffernutter sandwiches taking peanut butter and a jar of marshmallow cream and adding them together on a piece of bread to create the iconic sandwich. I turned it into a cookie adding marshmallows to a peanut butter base cookie. By adding peanut butter instead of fluff, the cookie turns out chewier and stringier (which I think enhances the texture).

New Favorites

I moved on to experimenting with cupcakes, adding fluff to the inside and a roasted

marshmallow on the outside. And then I added cake jars to the menu. Beautiful layers of flavored cake and fluff in a glass jar that’s perfect for sharing (or enjoying on your own). Most recently, I tried my hand at making nougat and came up with an addictive candy that’s filled with mixed nuts to offer a combination of sweet and salty that fits the bill.

Classic Favorites

And of course, I couldn’t leave out the famous cereal bars. I’ve experimented with potato chip cereal bars, the sweet and salty combination enhanced by homemade marshmallows is incredibly tasty. We also have a strawberry rice cereal bar, a fruit cereal bar and will soon add a cinnamon cereal bar to the repertoire.

The Future of Marshmallow Baking

There are so many recipes that feature

marshmallows that I’m excited to try out. From s’mores brownies, fudge, hot chocolate bombs, popcorn balls, more cookies, sandwich cookies, rocky road bark and marshmallow filled chocolate cups there are endless ways to create new marshmallowy bakery treats that will appeal to the sweet-toothed public.