This is my first disaster from the Magnificently Simple Marvellous Slice Recipes cook book. The marshmallow wouldn’t set, and even though I knew better, I still used it and ended up with a runny mess that had to be eaten with a spoon.
What I should have done is thrown the marshmallow away and re-made it using my own tried and true recipe.
The slice actually tasted delicious so I am going to make it again, using my own marshmallow recipe. However, for the purposes of this blog, I am posting the original recipe with all of the nasty photos. My own marshmallow recipe which I know works is at the bottom of the post.
Base
3 crushed weetbix
3/4 Cup brown sugar
1 Cup plain flour
1 Cup coconut
125gm butter (I actually used about 175gm of butter)
Melt the butter and mix into dry ingredients. Press into a lined tray and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for ten minutes. Cool.
Marshmallow (original recipe from book)
1 Cup sugar
3/4 Cup cold water
1 tspn gelatin
1/4 tspn vanilla extract
Put the sugar, water and gelatin into a saucepan and sit for ten minutes while the sugar dissolves. Continue dissolving the sugar over a low heat, before bringing mixture to a boil for three minutes. Cool the mixture before adding the vanilla extract and beating until it thickens. Once thick, pour over the base and allow to set. (This is where I went wrong. The marshmallow wouldn’t thicken, but I used it anyway. Big mistake, as you can see by the picture below).
Chocolate Topping (I didn’t use the suggested topping, as Copha disagrees with me. I’ve put the recipe I used instead at the bottom of the post, after my marshmallow recipe).
100gm Copha
1 Cup drinking chocolate (Sorry, I have no idea if this is a made up cup of cocoa or something else)
Mix well and cool. Pour over slice.
Rose’s Marshmallow
1 Cup sugar
1 Cup water
1 Tablespoon gelatine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Place the sugar, water and gelatine in a saucepan and stir until the sugar dissolves. Brush the sides down with a wet pastry brush if necessary. Once dissolved boil the mixture for ten minutes without stirring. Take off the heat and allow to cool.
Rose’s Chocolate Icing
1 Cup icing sugar
2 Tblspns cocoa
50gm softened butter
Mix all ingredients together then add a tablespoon of water at a time to the mixture until the consistency is good to spread over the top of the marshmallow. The icing may seem a bit buttery, but it sets very well.
