Fancy junk food?

[beetiger]

I am feeding my son a snack of a cashew butter sandwich on whole wheat bread. With marshmallows on it. Homemade marshmallows.

I am really not sure where on the scale of good to bad parenting this falls. :)

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[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Well, this week was the first time I tried, and having succeeded with the test batch, they're going to get made for holiday gifts for the relatives.

I actually got inspired by seeing the recipe in ReadyMade magazine, a wonderful resource for DIY inspiration that usually has articles on how to build artsy tables and letterpresses and daybeds, but had a bunch of info on cool handmade holiday gifts in their winter issue.

It's not too hard, in the realm of candymaking. A blend of sugar and corn syrup, cooked to soft ball stage, then whipped together with some hydrated gelatin till it's sticky and fluffy, oil, cool, cut, powder. If you can make jam and have a candy thermometer, you can do it. (If you're good at judging soft ball stage without a thermometer, you could probably do it without, but the scientist in me likes the numbers.)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think I'll leave the experimenting for you - I doubt I'll have time for gingerbread this year. :)