Christmas Recipes
Festive Marshmallow Squares
Ingredients
Base
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Marshmallow Topping
- 2 tablespoons unflavored gelatine
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1/2 cup red and green maraschino cherries, well drained on paper towel
- 1/2 cup toasted almonds, chopped
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
Base
- Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in flour until mixture forms a ball. Press dough into 9 x 13 inch pan; prick all over with a fork.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool.
Marshmallow Topping
- Soften gelatine in cold water.
- In a saucepan, combine sugar and warm water and boil for two minutes.
- Dissolve gelatine in hot syrup. Beat with an electric beater until very stiff (until white marshmallow forms).
- Halve the cherries and add with chopped almonds and almond extract. Pour over cooled base and dust with confectioners' sugar through a fine sieve.
- Cool thoroughly and cut into bars.