Marshmallows 

In this lab, we created light and fluffy home-made marshmallows. We created the marshmallows a lab before the hot chocolate because they had to set in the refrigerator. The marshmallow had very few ingredients and it was really easy creating the actual marshmallow batter but once we tried getting it into the baking pan to set, the batter was setting extremely quickly which was really hard to work with. The batter was sticky and hardening fast so it would stick to our fingers, the spoons, forks, counters...basically anything that it came in contact with.

The image above is a photo of my co-food artist; Natalie. As you can see, the marshmallow batter was extremely sticky and also did not fill up the pan at all. We were left with this sticky little blob of marshmallow in a too-big pan. Later in the lab, Maia discovered that a little bit of water could unstick the marshmallow from your fingers and utensils. After discovering this trick, we had better control over the marshmallow and we could actually start working with this little blob. We covered the blob with more cornstarch/icing sugar mix and flattened it out a bit into the pan. After flattening it out, we placed it in the fridge to set so that the marshmallow will be ready for the hot chocolate that we'll be creating next class.

We then cut up our marshmallows and it turned out that we flattened the little marshmallow blob too much so our marshmallows did turn out being flatter than a normal marshmallow would be but they still tasted decent.