Marshmallows: Homemade Gourmet Treats [Hardcover]

Eileen Talanian (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2008

No girl or boy scout has had marshmallows like these! Marshmallows takes the classic favorite to a mouthwatering new level. Featuring over 100 recipes for making your own marshmallows and treats to go with them, the book presents creations ranging from the family favorite S'Mores to the uniquely delicious Blood Orange and Rosemary and Zinfandel Fluff. There's even a recipe for a champagne marshmallow wedding cake! Marshmallows also supplies readers with helpful sections on ingredients, equipment, tips and techniques, a history of the marshmallow, and much more.
Recipes include: Raspberry-Crème de Cassis, Toasted Coconut, Lemon, Honey and Cardamom, Chocolate-Ancho Chile, Chocolate-Speckled Banana Fluff, Confetti Crispy Rice Treats, Fluff and Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
Eileen Talanian has served on the Philadelphia chapter board of directors of the American Institute of Wine and Food, and Les Dames d'Escoffier International. She is the author of Chewy Cookies: America's Comfort Food and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
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Editorial Reviews

Review

"'Marshmallows: Homemade Gourmet Treats' tells how to make marshmallows at home, how to produce a range of flavors, and provides recipes for using these homemade creations. Over 100 recipes accompany color photos by Courtney Winston showing how to produce homemade marshmallow delights."

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It's no secret that people love marshmallows. We eat them in ice cream, cookies, fudge, candy bars, and s'mores. We enjoy them out of hand, roast them over campfires, use them to decorate birthday cakes, and add them to hot chocolate. Now you can make your own marshmallows at home! Making these gourmet creations is much simpler than you might think. Just follow the step-by-step instructions in this book and soon you'll be replacing the bagged marshmallows you buy at the grocery store with delectable fresh marshmallows. You can make vanilla flavored marshmallows, but why stick with that? Widen your repertoire to include a multitude of flavors such as strawberry, chocolate chip, lemon, caramel, pumpkin, key lime, amaretto, apple spice, cinnamon mocha, and many more! And instead of that marshmallow fluff you buy in the jar, now you can have homemade fluffs including vanilla, blackberry, minted, espresso, frozen chocolate, and many others. Marshmallows: Homemade Gourmet Treats also includes fabulous recipes for using your marshmallows and fluff, such as Poached Pears with Dessert Wine Fluff and Chocolate Cherry Cake Towers. Wow your neighbors and friends and enjoy all the fun of creating your very own homemade gourmet treats. Featuring over 100 tantalizing recipes, Marshmallows has helpful sections on ingredients, equipment, tips and techniques, a history of marshmallows, and much more.
Eileen Talanian is an entrepreneurial pastry chef who has served on the board of directors of the Philadelphia chapters of the American Institute of Wine and Food and Les Dames d'Escoffier International. She is a highly sought-after restaurant consultant, providing innovative dessert menu guidance to many upscale and quality-conscious restaurants and corporations. Also the author of Chewy Cookies: America's Comfort Food, she lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children. Making a batch of homemade marshmallows is unbelievably simple! Mix and mold your own gourmet creations in less than an hour.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith (January 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423602498
• ISBN-13: 978-1423602491
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CORN FREE Marshmallows! (And a gorgeous cookbook), January 7, 2010

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This cookbook has been abolutely amazing! My daughter is allergic to corn and could not have storebought or even homemade marshmallows until I found this book. Granted, you can make the recipes using light corn syrup, but try taking the time to make some of the marshmallow syrup. It lasts months and the results taste cleaner and less gummy than with corn syrup. I have made the vanilla marshmallows multiple times to rave reviews. Not only that, everyone loved looking through the book, which is beautifully photographed and formatted. It would make a wonderful coffee table book even if you didn't try out the recipes. But it is SO worth it! The cinnamon mocha marshmallow batter is quite possibly the most wonderfully evil thing I have ever made. My two girls went crazy for those marshmallows, even more than the vanilla ones. Which by the way, make the most fabulous rocky road candy ever. Even my non marshmallow liking mom could not resist finishing the whole huge piece when she went to just try a little bite. The only trouble is trying to decide which flavor to try next. I really love that for the regular marshmallows, you do not have to drizzle hot syrup into the mixer. You just mix it all together, chuck it in the mixer and let it go. The author has step by step pictures on her website under the help section at [...]. Use the Look inside option to check out the contents and index to see just what an amazing variety is offered, from the mundane to the exotic. Buy it, use it, then sit back and bask in the flow of complements. Ten stars. Highly recommend.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Childhood Calling!, January 30, 2008

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Jean Elizabeth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marshmallows: Homemade Gourmet Treats (Hardcover)

When I first discovered marshmallows in S'mores, I fell in love with their heavenly taste and puffy feel. But who knew marshmallows could be so versatile? In Eileen's book, I discovered marshmallows in almost every dessert I've ever enjoyed, plus some new ones like dessert pizza. The book is full of gorgeous and inspiring photograpy. My favorite is her marshmallow wedding cake!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wowee!, March 26, 2008

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W. Duffy (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This is a well designed and beautifully photographed book that has made me the culinary genius of the family. The marshmallow treats are the talk of every party. But the hidden gems in this book are Eileen's Deep Chocolate Brownies and her Sweet Cream Dessert Biscuits. And once you get into the fluff, you never return.

Can't wait for the next one from her.