Advent Adventures
Day 10: shopping for sisters.
In theory, the girls really liked this one, but when they opened up the bag, they were awfully disappointed it was "just a card". [When there's an action to be accomplished that day, it's just written on a notecard. Not a great motivator for the pre-reading set.]
We haven't actually done the shopping yet since The G and I had a 10 meetings and pick-ups for this other crazy thing we're doing (the soon-to-be Mill City Ballroom), but I'm curious to see what they'll pick out for each other.
Day 11: marshmallows, AKA THE WAY MORE FUN THAN YESTERDAY ONE.
If someone tells you marshmallows are hard to make, they are liars. I vaguely followed the recipe at Smitten Kitchen for marshmallows and still they turned out great.
Things I did wrong that still produced better-than-store-bought 'mallows:
- don't have a candy thermometer and just eyeball what 240° of boiling sugar water looks like.
- beat the egg whites WITH the vanilla, instead of beating the egg whites AND THEN adding the vanilla.
- use a hand-mixer. The ye olde Kitchenaid works magic on marshmallow fluff, but mine is in need of a worm gear after mixing too much pizza dough. That was one very tired, hot, 30 year old Cuisinart when all was said and done.
Mostly the little ladies were overjoyed at making them "princess marshmallows" by each of them adding a few drops of food coloring… and getting to lick the beaters.
Have you ever made marshmallows? Do you make other candies?
Riot and Frolic 
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