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Strawberry Lemon Slice with Earl Grey Marshmallow

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Strawberry Lemon Slice with Earl Grey Marshmallow

Strawberry Lemon Slice with Earl Grey Marshmallow recipe

This recipe is easy, requires low effort and only a small number of ingredients.

The flavors all complement each other well, where they create a very unique and flavorsome little sweet treat.

This recipe originally came about as I wanted to make the easiest, fuss free marshmallow that people would be impressed with. I spend ages producing and using multiple baking techniques and ended being really happy with this outcome.

I also went through a baking with tea phase and was yet to perfect a recipe using Earl Grey tea (this was attempt number 7).

This recipe would make for a lovely high tea inclusion for any occasion.

Ingredients:

  • 100g self raising flour
  • 1oog plain flour
  • 180g sugar
  • 100g butter
  • 4 tsn strawberry essence
  • 1 tsn lemon zest
  • 1 egg

Marshmallow:

  • 4 teabags Earl Grey
  • 1 tbsn gelatine powder
  • 140g sugar

 

Method:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180c degrees and line a 20cm x 30cm cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Place the flours and sugar into a bowl and mix.
  3. Melt the butter in a bowl and add the essence and zest.
  4. Stir the egg into the flour mix, add the butter mix and stir until well combine.
  5. Place the mix into the cake tin and flatten with fingers until smooth.
  6. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, then set aside to cool.
  7. Place 300ml boiling water into a cup and add in the tea bags. Leave the tea to infuse for 5 minutes.
  8. Make the marshmallow mix by placing the gelatine into 100ml of the infused tea water in a bowl and whisk to combine the mix.
  9. Place another 100ml tea water and sugar into a bowl and whish with electric beaters for 4 minutes.
  10. Place the gelatine mix in the microwave until warm and syrupy in texture if mix has gone cool and hard.
  11. Slowly pour the gelatine mix into the sugar mix in a consistent stream while the beaters are on high.
  12. Continue beating for a further 8 minutes or until the mix is light and fluffy.
  13. Pour the mix over the cooled slice base and place in the fridge for 2 hours to set completely.
  14. Cut and enjoy.

 

Notes:

  • You need to make more tea than required as the tea bags soak up a lot of the liquid.

 

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Jelly Marshmallow Fondant

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Jelly Marshmallow Fondant

Jelly Marshmallow Fondant recipe

After getting annoyed at the cost of fondant and how certain colors can be very difficult to get ahold of I decided to make my own. But my version was also going to have unique flavors that reflected the colors.

Now you may have noticed that I tend to use jelly crystals to quickly and easily flavor my cakes, creams, custards etc so I figured I could use this to flavor and colour fondant.

After playing around with a few fondant recipe experiments it was the marshmallow trial that was the easiest, quickest and replicated fondant perfectly from texture to pliability.

Literally 5 minutes and whatever flavored fondant you want is created. The examples below have lemon and blackberry fondant but you can use any flavour you wish!

Jelly Marshmallow Fondant recipe

Ingredients:

  • 40g jelly crystals (flavour as you desire)
  • 60g vanilla marshmallows
  • 2 tsn water
  • 185g icing sugar

 

Method:

  1. Place the crystals, marshmallows and water into a bowl and on medium heat microwave for 45 seconds, stir.
  2. Microwave again for 30 seconds on medium or until the marshmallows have ballooned up, stir.
  3. Add the icing sugar and using a metal spoon stir until well combine the mix resemble fondant.
  4. Roll fondant into a ball and place in the fridge for 15 minutes to cool completely and firm to required consistency.
  5. Kneed the fondant for 20 seconds then roll the fondant out with a rolling pin on baking paper and use on desired cake.

 

Notes:

  • If the icing is too sticky and not pliable after being refrigerated just add an additional 10g icing sugar and kneed. If still not to consistency required repeat the additional icing sugar step.

 

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Spiced Bourbon Marshmallow Slice

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Spiced Bourbon Marshmallow Slice

Spiced Bourbon Marshmallow Slice recipe

 

So I know that bourbon and chocolate go together very well (hello my Bourbon Chocolate Cake with Peanut Bourbon Icing recipe), however I wanted to use up some bourbon by making something different. Chocolate goes with most things as flavour parings tend to enhance and put a spin on the cocoa/cacoa taste. What I wanted to do was make a bourbon recipe that enhanced the bourbon flavour. On top of this as we know I do have a sweet tooth and bourbon is not sweet so I had to somehow also make it super appealing and absolutely tasty for by palate.

My solution to this was to play around with a variation of spices, mixing and matching until I found a set that went extremely well together, had similar flavour properties and also brought out the sweetness in the bourbon.

Sound impossible? See the below recipe and become a lover of bourbon!

 

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup self raising flour
  • ½ cup plain flour
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ tsn nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsn ground ginger
  • 1 + ½ ground cinnamon
  • 1 + ½ mixed spice
  • 100g butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsn vanilla essence

Marshmallow:

  • 1 tbsn gelatine powder
  • 140g sugar
  • 180ml cup water
  • 4 tsn bourbon

 

Method:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180c degrees and line a 20cm x 30cm cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Place the flours, sugar and spices into a bowl and mix.
  3. Melt the butter in a bowl and add the vanilla essence.
  4. Stir the egg into the flour mix, add the butter mix and stir until well combine.
  5. Place the mix into the cake tin and flatten with fingers.
  6. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes then set aside to cool.
  7. Make the marshmallow mix by placing the gelatine into half the water and stir to combine the mix.
  8. Place the remaining water, sugar and bourbon into a bowl and whisk with electric beaters for 4 minutes.
  9. Place the gelatine mix in the microwave until warm and syrupy in texture.
  10. Slowly pour the gelatine in a consistent stream while the beaters are on high.
  11. Continue beating for a further 8 minutes or until the mix is light and fluffy.
  12. Pour the mix over the cooled slice base and place in the fridge for 2 hours to set completely.
  13. Cut and enjoy.

 

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Marshmallow Pie

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 Marshmallow Pie

Marshmallow Pie recipe

Marshmallows…very interesting little pillows of happiness. Mostly known for being an essential camping item, an ingredient in rocky-road or a special addition to a cup of chocolate/cocoa tends to be otherwise overlooked.

I was sure this little gem had more potential so I started thinking up ways of championing the old Marshmallow in some tasty baking ways.

Incorporating with chocolate was too typical, I wanted to feature the ‘marshmallow’ flavour not cover it up. The outcome – A Marshmallow Pie. Think vanilla slice taste and texture but with the ultimate twist!

Ingredients

Pastry:

  • 1 + 3/4 cup plain flour
  • ¼ cup icing sugar
  • 180g butter
  • 2 tsn vanilla essence

Filling:

  • 300g white marshmallows
  • 140g milk
  • 15g butter
  • 1 tbsn vanilla essence
  • 2 egg whites
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 110g thickened cream
  • 1 tbsn icing sugar
  • 1 tsn (extra) vanilla essence

 

Method

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180c.
  2. Place the flour, butter, sugar, vanilla and 2 tbsn water in a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Now process until the mix resembles breadcrumbs.
  3. Place the mix into a bowl and kneed until combined.
  4. Roll the dough with a rolling pin on a lightly floured surface and place the dough into a tart tray.
  5. Place in the fridge for 20 minutes.
  6. Place baking paper on top of the tart and blind bake for 15 minutes
  7. Remove the paper and beans/rice and bake for a further 15 minutes.
  8. Place the tart shell on a tray to cool.
  9. Combine 240g marshmallows, milk, butter and vanilla in a saucepan and heat on medium, stirring until melted.
  10. Remove from heat and whisk until smooth and glossy then place in the fridge to thicken stirring occasionally.
  11. While waiting beat the eggwhites until soft peaks form, then slowly add the sugar and beat until stiff peaks form and mix is thick and glossy.
  12. Place the cream, icing sugar and extra vanilla in a bowl, beat until thick and whipped.
  13. Remove marshmallow mixture from the fridge and fold in the egg mixture and cream mix.
  14. Using a whisk gently whisk until mix is smooth.
  15. Spoon mixture into piecrust and place in the fridge for 4 hours to set.
  16. Place 60g left over Marshmallows on the pie for decoration.

Notes:

  • Instead of whipping up the cream, vanilla and sugar you can simply use ½ can cool whip instead.

 

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