We've been talking about making smarshmallows for months now, so we finally found time today to try it out. (Note that Rudy doesn't actually call them Smarshmallows anymore, but James and I still insist on doing so...)
It is surprisingly easy and the kids loved the chemistry experiment aspects of boiling the sugar and watching the mixture fluff up from a gooey liquid to the poofy product. Of course, that product might have been even fluffier had I read the instructions correctly and not added only a third of the recommended amount of gelatin...
Sticky faces after licking the beaters:
Boiling the sugar:
Mixing in the sugar: (Rudy thought it smelled bad, hence the funny face.)
Mixing in the gelatin and watching the mixture "poof up". That's the scientific term.
The almost final product:
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