Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

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Super fun to make! Chillin’ with my Peeps – Homemade Marshmallow Peeps…

Homemade Peeps

Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

Who doesn’t love Peeps? I DO ! Call over a few favorite girlfriends, or your sweetie and your children into the kitchen! It is time to CHILL WITH YOUR PEEPS AND MAKE DIY HOMEMADE PEEPS! 

The Origin Of Peeps

“Peeps are produced by Just Born, a candy manufacturer founded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by Russian immigrant Sam Born (1891-1959). In 1953 Just Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its marshmallow chick line, and replaced the painstaking process of hand-forming the chicks with mass production.”

What Do Peeps Taste like?

Peeps have a crunchy outer sugar bite with a marshmallow pillowy sweet inside. They come in many flavors.

Fun Homemade Peeps Idea

Use a peep to garnish a glass of champagne or prosecco.

Chillin' with my Peeps - Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

Peep Ingredients

  • sparkling sugar, pastel colors

Click here for the Sparkling Charm DIY Sparkling Colored Sugar recipe.

  • 1 cup water
  • 3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1⁄2 cup light corn syrup
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoons pure vanilla
  • black food coloring gel for eyes

Homemade Marshmallow Peeps Supplies

  • toothpicks
  • foil
  • 16″ piping bag
  • piping tip, 1A with a large coupler
  • candy thermometer

Peeps Prep

  • Place a sheet of aluminum foil on a cookie sheet, bending the edges up to secure the Sparkling Sugar.
  • Spread the Sparkling Colored Sugar out evenly.
  • Prepare your piping bag with a 1 A tip and a large coupler.

Instructions

  • Combine the gelatin and 1/2 cup of cold water in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment.
  • Allow the mixture to bloom while you make the marshmallow syrup.
  • In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup, salt, and 1/2 cup water.
  • Cook over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
  • Raise the heat to high and cook until the syrup reaches 240°F on a candy thermometer.
  • Remove from the heat.
  • Slowly pour marshmallow peep syrup into the dissolved gelatin in the mixer bowl.
  • Turn the stand mixer to high speed and whip until the mixture just starts to thicken but still a bit loose. This will take about 10 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla and mix for 30 more seconds.
  • Immediately transfer the marshmallow mixture to large piping bag fitted with the 1 A tip and large coupler.

How To Shape Marshmallow Peeps

  1. Quickly pipe a 2″  line of marshmallow pulling back towards the front and away quickly at the end. This forms the body and the tail of the peep.
  2. Place the tip over the front of the peep body, opposite the tail that was just formed. Gently squeeze to build up the head of the peep. When the marshmallow mound spreads just a bit, stop squeezing and pull the marshmallow forward (away from the peep tail) just past the body to form a beak.
  3. Repeat, and continue forming the Marshmallow Peeps until you are out of the marshmallow mixture.
  • Use a spoon to Cover your peeps in the Sparkling Colored Sugar.
  • Use the black food coloring gel and a toothpick to add eyes to your peeps.
  • Let the Peeps set for 30 minutes before eating or packaging.

Homemade Marshmallow Peeps Tips

  • Work Quickly! If the marshmallow sets, just cut the piping bag away and eat your cone shaped marshmallow.
  • If your peeps are not holding their shape when piped, the marshmallow has not set enough. Let it sit a few minutes and try again.

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Homemade Peeps

Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

Super fun to make! Chillin' with my Peeps – Homemade Marshmallow Peeps…
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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Desserts
Cuisine American
Servings 18 Peeps
Calories 69 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • sparkling sugar pastel colors
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 ⁄2 cup light corn syrup
  • 1 ⁄2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoons pure vanilla
  • black food coloring gel for eyes

PEEP SUPPLIES

  • toothpicks
  • foil
  • 16 1" piping bag
  • piping tip 1A with a large coupler
  • candy thermometer

PEEPS PREP

  • Place a sheet of aluminum foil on a cookie sheet bending the edges up to secure the Sparkling Sugar.
  • Spread the Sparkling Colored Sugar out evenly.
  • Prepare your piping bag with a 1 A tip and a large coupler.

Instructions
 

  • Combine the gelatin and 1/2 cup of cold water in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment.
  • Allow the mixture to bloom while you make the marshmallow syrup.
  • In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup, salt, and 1/2 cup water.
  • Cook over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
  • Raise the heat to high and cook until the syrup reaches 240 degrees on a candy thermometer.
  • Remove from the heat.
  • Slowly pour syrup into the dissolved gelatin in the mixer bowl.
  • Turn the stand mixer to high speed and whip until the mixture just starts to thicken but still a bit loose. This will take about 10 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla and mix for 30 more seconds.
  • Immediately transfer the marshmallow mixture to large piping bag fitted with the 1 A tip and large coupler.
  • Quickly pipe a 2″  line of marshmallow pulling back towards the front and away quickly at the end. This forms the body and the tail of the peep.
  • Place the tip over the front of the peep body, opposite the tail that was just formed. Gently squeeze to build up the head of the peep. When the marshmallow mound spreads just a bit, stop squeezing and pull the marshmallow forward (away from the peep tail) just past the body to form a beak.
  • Repeat, and continue forming the Marshmallow Peeps until you are out of the marshmallow mixture.
  • Use a spoon to Cover your peeps in the Sparkling Colored Sugar.
  • Use the black food coloring gel and a toothpick to add eyes to your peeps.
  • Let the Peeps set for 30 minutes before eating or packaging.

Notes

Work Quickly! If the marshmallow sets, just cut the piping bag away and eat your cone shaped marshmallow.
If your peeps are not holding their shape when piped, the marshmallow has not set enough. Let it sit a few minutes and try again.

Nutrition

Serving: 16PeepsCalories: 69kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 0.1gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.001gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.004gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.003gSodium: 0.3mgPotassium: 11mgFiber: 0.03gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 48IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 1mgIron: 0.03mg
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