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Description

DYI Marshmallows (STEAM)
1. Learn about the food science of making Marshmallows
2. Touch on global agriculture - where our ingredients are sourced from
3. Discover what energy our bodies will get when we eat Marshmallows

Resources

- 20g unflavoured gelatine
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2/3 cups corn syrup
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- Icing sugar
- Oil for greasing

Equipment needed:
- 9 x 9-inch or 8 x 8-inch baking pan
- cling film
- Large bowl
- Electric mixer
- Small saucepan
- timer
- spatula

Instructions

Introduction / Icebreakers

We have all eaten a marshmallow or 10 at camp, but have you ever thought about how it’s made?!

Ice breaker #1- Marshmallow map - Where do the ingredients in a marshmallow come from?
Ice breaker #2- What is your marshmallow eating record? As a group count to the highest number, one person at a time, restart if two people say the number at once

Activity 1
● History of Marshmallows

Make Marshmallows:
Line the pan with cling film, lightly oil the cling film. Set aside.
Add gelatin to a bowl and add 1/2 cup cold water. Soak for about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine sugar, corn syrup and 1/4 cup water in a saucepan, whisking until the sugar is dissolved. Bring to a rapid boil. As soon as it is boiling, set the timer for 1 minute, DO NOT stir.
Carefully pour the boiling syrup into the gelatin mixture, whisk with an electric mixer, starting on low and moving up to high speed. Add the salt and beat for between 10 -15 minutes, until fluffy and cooled to room temperature.
Beat in the vanilla extract.

Grease your hands and a spatula with oil, transfer marshmallow mix into the prepared pan. Using your (greased) hands, press the marshmallow into the pan. Take another piece of lightly oiled plastic wrap and press lightly on top of the marshmallow, creating a seal. Let mixture sit for a few hours, or overnight, until cooled and firmly set.
Sprinkle a cutting surface very generously with icing sugar. Remove the marshmallow mix from the pan and lay on top of the sugar.
Dust the top generously with icing sugar. Use a large, sharp knife or pizza cutter to cut into squares. Coat marshmallows in icing sugar.

Marshmallows can be toasted and made into a s’more or added to hot chocolate.

Debrief/Discussion
● Q. How has the syrup mixture seem to have changed as it gets closer to this temperature?
● Q. What would happen if we adjusted our recipe and used less/more sugar?
● Q How are our marshmallows sticking together?
● Q. What type of energy will we get when we eat Marshmallows?

Acknowledgement/Source
https://www.foodiewithfamily.com/homemade-marshmallows-foodie-christmas-gift-4/

Tags

• cooking
• gce
• global citizenship education
• IGG Octagon 2021
• Marshmallow
• SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
• SDG 5 Gender Equality
• Social distanced activity
• Zoom

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