Cat Paw Marshmallow

Homemade marshmallows are very soft, like clouds, and melt in your mouth.  Instead of making the squarish marshmallows, tried the famed cat paw marshmallows....they are so cute!! :)  Children were crazy over this cutie pie candy!

 

Packed as gifts

 

Cat Paw Marshmallows

 

Ingredients

5g           Gelatine

30g         Ice Cold water

30g         Water

75g         Sugar

50g         Light Corn Syrup

1 Tbsp    Lemon Juice (optional)
A bit of Red colouring

1 cup      Corn Starch
1 cup      Powdered Sugar
 

Directions

 

1. Mix the corn starch and powdered sugar and pour into a pan and cover the pan entirely with the mixture.
2. Use a spoon to press round indentations onto the mixture.  Set aside.
3. Bloom gelatine in a bowl with the ice cold water.  Set aside.
4. Mix water, sugar and light corn syrup in a saucepan.  Boil till soft ball stage (approx. 120°C).
5. Pour the boiled sugar syrup into the bloomed gelatine and use a hand mixer and mix on high speed, till the mixture thickens.
6. Add the lemon juice and continue to mix for around 30 seconds.
7. Scoop out around 2 tbsp of the white mixture and add a bit of red colouring, then put into piping bag.
8. Pour the rest of the white mixture into another piping bag.
9. Pipe the white mixture into the round indentations to make round marshmallows.
10. Using the pink coloured mixture, pipe the paws onto the white marshmallows.
11. Sift corn starch and powdered sugar mixture onto the marshmallows.
12. Leave them to air dry for around 15 mins.