Hot Chocolate with Homemade Honey Marshmallows

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out the excess sugar into the sink get yourself a little saucepan and a mixing bowl and I have my electric hand mixer plugged in and standing by this is gonna happen real fast so you got to have your gear ready 1/2 a cup of sugar in the pan followed by a quarter cup of water and I'll summon forth the upside down bear just eyeballing about a quarter cup of honey no point in measuring it's too sticky this is going to make marshmallow that taste strongly of honey if you think you won't like that use corn syrup instead you just need some kind of inverted sugar to keep the other sugar from crystallizing heat goes on high meanwhile get a quarter ounce envelope of unflavored gelatin and pour it into your mixing bowl for a vegan substitution use two teaspoons of agar agar powder Omega then you just mix a quarter cup of water into that and let it hydrate for a minute this is proportionally a lot of gelatin but I like firm marshmallows especially for hot chocolate I don't want them to melt instantaneously okay as the sugars get hot they'll become less viscous and you can easily mix everything together by just shaking the pan a little bit and then let it come to a boil this will happen very fast five minutes max you want to cook this to the soft ball stage which is about 240 Fahrenheit 115 Celsius though I like to push it by a few extra degrees again to get firmer marshmallows that'll keep heating for a while as I get ready to pour it so done real fast drizzle the syrup into your bloomed gelatin while beating it with the hand please be careful not to splash any on yourself hot syrup is dangerous stuff then you just beat this until it goes fluffy and white and you see the beaters leaving little trails and then it just took me three or four minutes it's ready when it's cool enough that you can touch it but don't let it cool down too much or you won't be able to pour it stop mixing when it's still very warm little drop of vanilla extract goes in if you did that while the syrup was piping hot you might evaporate some of its flavor now real quick pour the marshmallow into your powdered pan a silicon spatula is the best tool to nudge it along I can't even stop to get you a better camera angle here if I did the marshmallow and the bowl would set up hard before I'd ever gotten it into a smooth layer I'll just see if I can get it to run into the corners there a little bit no big deal if it doesn't in addition to using honey there's another thing that you can do to make these actually taste like something more than just fluffy sugar and that is to brulee them quick hit with a kitchen torch yes I left that patch white for a reason look at how the brown patch contracts you can't hide from me edges between that and the honey these marshmallows are actually gonna have a pretty strong flavor in the fridge this goes uncovered so that it can dry out a bit for at least a few hours overnight is better now it's the next day and we're gonna go over to my neighbor Erin's place and cook in her kitchen where she just completed a massive renovation it was originally supposed to be three to four months and it was almost a year yeah I should tell you Erin's beautiful old house here has a secret you'll see what it is at the very end of this video stick around speaking of sticking marshmallow may indeed be the stickiest substance on earth so you basically have to work with it in a giant heap of powdered sugar the cornstarch and the powdered sugar is really what helps you dust up your hand real good and then just peel the marshmallow out of the pan nice thin layer that's gonna let us make nice little marshmallow squares that you can easily slurp out of the hot chocolate and you gotta grease up your knife and then stick the powdered sugar on to the grease and even then you're gonna see stuff is gonna stick to it I'm just cutting the marshmallow into long strips I'm leaving the whole white part intact for an experiment later now the cut sides of those strips are unbelievably sticky so I would toss them around in the sugar to get everything coated gonna look like a pile of worms line them up in an orderly heap and now we can finally cut them into you close two perfect squares then one by one you're gonna have to tear them apart from their sisters and brothers and get each square coated in sugar that's more than enough marshmallows for the four portions of hot chocolate we're gonna do but it's kind of the smallest quantity that you can practically make into a pan goes 3 cups of whole milk and the heat goes on medium nice and easy I'm gonna start with a scant quarter cup of sugar here is a standard 100 gram or 3.5 ounce choclate vivere duck that is 70% cacao but you could absolutely use something less intense and I'm just breaking it into chunks as it goes in so that it'll melt evenly the milk has barely started heating up yet I want the chocolate to heat up nice and slow then just whisk and I'm not waiting until all the pieces are melted before I whisk the whisking will help them melt the danger here is that you're gonna overheat the chocolate and it's gonna split and go gritty we've got a homogeneous texture now so it's time to taste I might just do a little bit of pinch of salt but other than that if it was just for me I'd stop right there that is such a pure chocolate experience but it's very intense if you want something more crowd-pleasing you'll want a lot more sugar up to a cup total I'd say the fact that our primary source of fat here is cocoa butter and not dairy from say cream that means that the mouthfeel here is really different delicious I think but the mixture is not very stable if the pot sits around for a while the chocolate will start to fall out of suspension so you can make a little cornstarch slurry equal parts starch and water and then pour in really just like a teaspoon of that make sure that the hot chocolate is at least a verging on a simmer to gelatin eyes that starch that'll stabilize things and it'll give you a smoother almost fluffy texture I prefer the texture without the cornstarch but this is probably closer to what most people expect I'll give that another taste this is like making soup if you don't like how it tastes that's kind of on you not on the recipe because you're tasting the finished product here there's no guesswork just add little bits of things until you're really happy with it I'm doing a hair more sugar you can also do a little drip of vanilla which tastes nice though I do think it detracts a bit from the pure chocolate experience and that's it pour it into one of Aaron's mugs here and grab a handful of marshmallows float those in and that is just lovely I hate when people put giant marshmallows in hot chocolate because you can't eat them you just have to wait for them to melt into the drink but larger marshmallows are certainly more photogenic which as we all know is really what matters in cooking so let's see if we can strike a compromise I'm gonna use one of Aaron's biscuit cutters to punch a wide thin round out of the part of the marshmallow sheet that I did not Berle eh now I can just float that on top and hit it with the torch how do you like that Instagram also when the top is freshly brûléed like that it gets this kind of crispy super thin filo like texture on top so in theory the disk could get suss that it looks prettier and it's still small enough that you could theoretically slurp it or just let it melt either way so say you don't like marshmallows here's another way to make this a little bit special in the squeeze bottle I have cream that I reduced in a pan until it just had a saucy texture I threw in a little sugar and vanilla and then chilled it now for the toothpick trick no talent required it's excellent Adam yes say that you want to go into the mail Lord or hot chocolate business sell a little kit with everything that people need to make the marshmallows and stuff that's actually not a terrible idea you'll need a 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where they stored the hooch martini anyone nothing like snooping around someone else's very beautiful historic house and you can to the historic vine Ville holiday tour of homes is coming up here in beautiful Macon Georgia December 7th and 8th this is not a paid ad that I'm doing right now vine Ville is my neighborhood and I just want you to come see it the neighborhood has been here for well over a hundred years it was Macon's first suburb and it shows in the arc texture the homes are just from a storybook really all these houses and more will be on the tour including errands all decked out for the holidays my house was on the tour a few years ago but never again way too much cleaning anyway tickets are for sale online link is in the description hope to see you there and you know make some hot chocolate for your family correct them when they try to call it hot cocoa see how that goes over

Channel: Adam Ragusea

Views: 1,580,181

Rating: 4.9401531 out of 5

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Id: EcBK27chvR4

Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 28 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/4Looper]

I think this recipe might be a bit too hard for someone who probably never cooks? I doubt he has a candy thermometer and melting chocolate into milk directly on the stove makes me very nervous lol

[u/Rich_Comey_Quan]

How the fuck did we invent marshmallows if it's this hard!