I had some good content over on my old blog, but I didn’t want to drag it all over here. This is one of the posts that’s some good reading, so I’m moving it over here. Hence the old blog’s water marks on the photos 😉

With s’more season coming, these will be perfect for camping trips, or just backyard fire pits!

This was originally posted on Bruises in the Frosting on 12/12/2016.

I have been dragging my feet on posting this recipe.

I came up with the idea about 3 weeks ago and emailed my buddy Kevin over at Vital Proteins to see if they would send me some gelatin. He sent me a nice big container and I went RIGHT to work.

The packing box was still on the kitchen floor when I was smoothing the top of my first batch.

I knocked out 3-4 batches while working a launch at my “muggle job” and dealing with Thanksgiving planning and the 8000 other things I do every day…. and handed each of those marshmallows (but one) out to my friends and neighbors.

I woke up at 5am 3 days in a row to slice up a batch I had made the night before. Wolfgang is no longer surprised to see me up, awake, wearing my lipstick and knocking around the kitchen when he stumbles upstairs on his way to jazz band at 6am.

After that initial flurry, I didn’t make marshmallows for a week. The previous batches weren’t good enough. My friends were RAVING about them and demanding more, but I was convinced that they were not up to par for the blog.

A friend sent me an email, knowing perfectly well what my issue was. She gets me. She said that she knew I was questioning my marshmallow powers, but her husband got angry at her when she brought my marshmallows home because he thought that she had bought those “expensive artisan marshmallows” from the local grocery.

This guy is a picky man, so the fact he assumed my marshmallows were on that level helped shake me out of my Impostor Syndrome.

So then I made 13 more batches of different flavors of marshmallows and sold those to benefit our local mama group’s Giving Tree.

And now I finally think my recipe is good enough to share with you.

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A few notes before you make these:

• Please make sure you read the whole recipe before you start. There are a few steps where you have to have your mise en place or you’re going to get held up!
• Watch the boil on your syrup. Something in the cold brew makes this boil up bigger and faster than the regular vanilla marshmallows.
• It may smell a little odd as you’re boiling down the syrup. That’s normal. No, your marshmallows will taste nothing like that smell.
• Yes, you can use the cold brew concentrate from Trader Joe’s or cold brew from Starbucks. IF you get the kind from Starbucks, please make sure to ask for a tall size with  no sweetener, no milk, no ice and no water. You want just their concentrate.
• Yes, you CAN use a hand mixer, but you’ll be standing there forever. If you can get your hands on a stand mixer, it will make your life so much easier.
• If you want to make plain marshmallows, replace the cold brew with water and add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract just after you finish pouring the syrup in your stand mixer, before you increase the speed of the mixer.

And BOOM! You’ve got cold brew marshmallows.

Please let me know if you make these, and tag me in social media if you post pictures! (I am @miacupcake everywhere!)

Need a visual? Check out my Day Five of VLOGMAS 2016, where I went through the whole process:

Have you ever made marshmallows or had homemade marshmallows? Tell me about it! <3