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Halloween Chocolate Marshmallow Rolls

October 6, 2012 8 Comments
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Hello everyone!

What have you been up to this week? Me? I’ve been caught up in the preparation of our Halloween party next week! I’m pretty excited about it! I told my boyfriend I could almost do a thesis on Halloween party, decorations and food because I did so many hours of research. I also got to this realization:  it’s easier to do research than really get to it, and here I thought I was procrastinating only for my real thesis ;)

Here is another of my family Christmas classic that can easily be transformed into an Halloween dessert! If there is orange marshmallows at your grocery store, you can use these instead of homemade ones, but here we don’t seem to have some (well except for the fruit mix that has some pale orange marshmallow but I would have needed to sort them out!).
If you do the whole recipe of homemade marshmallow, you’ll need about 2/3 of the marshmallows. I mixed store-bought white marshmallows and homemade orange ones so i only did 1/3 of the homemade marshmallows recipe.

Enjoy!

Coming up: Halloween cupcakes!

Halloween Chocolate Marshmallow Rolls

Homemade Marshmallows
Recipe from Joy of Baking

1 cup cold water, divided
3 envelopes (1/4 ounce each) unflavored gelatin
2 cups granulated white sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Orange food coloring

Garnish:
3-4 cups powdered sugar, sifted

The video and the directions on Joy of Baking 

Advice: you’ll see that the marshmallows are still sticky when you cut them. So always roll them in powdered sugar before cutting. I also added powdered sugar on the pizza cutter I used, it helped a lot!


Chocolate Marshmallow Rolls
See the Christmas ones
2 rolls, about 12 pieces each.

6 squares semi-sweet chocolate (or 1 package of chocolate chips)
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (facultative)
1 package small marshmallows

  1. Melt the butter and the chocolate in a saucepan. Remove from heat.
  2. Add the egg and the powdered sugar.
  3. Let cool a little then add the vanilla, the nuts and the marshmallows (you don’t want them to melt so wait for the mix to be cool enough). Mix well.
  4. Pour on two aluminium foil and spread out. Form into a roll using the foil to surround it.
  5. Freeze until set. When ready to serve, remove the foil and slice the rolls. They keep well in the freezer.
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Geeky Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Invaders

February 7, 2012 18 Comments
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Here is the recipe I was excited about. It’s not a real recipe, more like a technique, but it was fun. And it’s so good. So your boyfriend/girlfriend is a geek? You are a geek yourself, then join the club and make these cute invaders, from the arcade game space invaders. They are all dressed up for Valentine’s Day, with white, pink and red colors.

You will need this awesome ice cube tray. While searching for this website, I saw a Pacman and a Tetris ice cube tray, Oh My, I’m in love! You can use any ice tray you like, there is so many great ideas out there!

I made these by inspiration without a recipe or anything so I can’t give you the exact quantities except for the peanut butter which is based on my Peanut butter filled chocolate cookies.

Geeky peanut butter chocolate invaders


Geeky Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Invaders

Ingredients
Milk or semisweet chocolate
White, pink and red chocolate
Vegetable oil (optional)

I made a quarter of this recipe :
½ cup smooth peanut butter
¼ cup unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup icing sugar

Directions
Since the mold made quite little invaders and they have these tiny “legs”, I didn’t trust myself to do this technique. I tried this instead and it worked quite well:

First prepare the filling: mix the unsalted butter and the peanut butter until smooth. Add the icing sugar until well combined. Put the mix on a sheet of plastic wrap (do a rectangle about 1cm thick). Freeze for 10 minutes.

For each color, melt the chocolate in a double boiler. If you want it to be more liquid, add a little vegetable oil.

Pour enough colored chocolate to cover the bottom of the mold. You can use a toothpick to make the chocolate reach to the sides (the “legs” are quite hard to reach). Let it set.

Cut the filling into little rectangles (little enough to fit into each mold without touching the sides) and place them into each mold.

Melt the milk or semisweet chocolate using a double boiler. Again you can use vegetable oil to thin the chocolate. Pour the chocolate to cover each mold. Drag the flat of a knife across the mold to scrape excess chocolate .
Once set, remove gently from the mold.

Geeky peanut butter chocolate invaders

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Chocolate Marshmallow Rolls

December 4, 2011 2 Comments
Chocolate Marshmallow Rolls

It’s almost Christmas time! Do you have snow yet (for those who have some!)? We did about 3 weeks ago but it’s long gone! We have abnormally high temperature for the season!

Ok so here is a recipe my mom does each and every Christmas, a treat that we are always eager to eat. She always does all these little desserts: fudge, Nanaimo (like the Halloween Nanaimo but without the orange food coloring!), cookies I will be doing very soon for you (those are quite new, maybe 5-6 Christmas’, the others she’s been doing since before I was born!) and all other treats she might think of! This is actually the first time I do them myself so I guess you are lucky! They are surprisingly easy to make! They are always a huge hit so don’t hesitate to double, triple and more the recipe! My mom must double it because each Christmas we have white marshmallow rolls and these colourful, fruit-taste ones. I’ve never been able to choose if I prefer the white ones or the fruit ones, I think I never will!

For the next few weeks I’ll be mostly focusing on Christmas-themed sweets. Hope you’ll like them!

belle2

Chocolate Marshmallow Rolls
2 rolls, about 12 pieces each.

Ingredients
6 squares semi-sweet chocolate (you can use 1 package of chocolate chips instead)
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts (you can omit them if you want to)
1 package small marshmallows (white or colored/fruits)

Directions

  1. Melt the butter and the chocolate in a saucepan. Remove from heat.
  2. Add the egg and the powdered sugar.
  3. Let cool a little then add the vanilla, the nuts and the marshmallows (you don’t want them to melt so wait for the mix to be cool enough). Mix well.
  4. Pour on two aluminium foil and spread out. Form into a roll using the foil to surround it.
  5. Refrigerate (or freeze). When ready to serve, remove the foil and slice the roll. You can keep them in the freezer for a long long time!

belle1

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