{"id":6507,"date":"2013-09-18T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2013-09-17T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T02:18:40","slug":"chocolate-covered-marshmallows-an-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=6507","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Covered Marshmallows&#8230;an attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6508\" title=\"chocolate-covered-marshmallows1\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while ago, we had some kiddos over and decided to make chocolate covered marshmallows. I had whipped up a batch of marshmallows the night before using this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/ina-garten\/homemade-marshmallows-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">recipe<\/a>. As a general rule, I don&#8217;t like store-bought marshmallows, but homemade ones? Divine. So fluffy and pillowy and cloud-like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So when you let a bunch of kids including toddlers go to town with marshmallows and melted chocolate chips, above is what you get. I can practically hear the tut-tutting of food bloggers en masse. Probably not what you&#8217;d call appetizing, but boy were they yummy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6510\" title=\"chocolate-covered-marshmallows3\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows3-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stuck some skewers in and got gooey and sticky while eating them. As a rainy day activity with kids, it&#8217;s relatively easy and scrumptious (though getting them to stop eating was tricky). Cutting up the marshmallows got pretty messy for me, but that&#8217;s part of the fun, right? I let the kids sprinkle extra powdered sugar to help with the cutting, and it was a delicious way to spend an afternoon. And oh, the possibilities! Ghost shapes and Frankenmarshmallows for Halloween! Dipped in steamed milk! Stored in an air tight container for a late afternoon snack, curled up with a good book&#8230;Ah, it&#8217;s feeling like autumn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" title=\"chocolate-covered-marshmallows2\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/chocolate-covered-marshmallows2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, we had some kiddos over and decided to make chocolate covered marshmallows. I had whipped up a batch of marshmallows the night before using this recipe. As a general rule, I don&#8217;t like store-bought marshmallows, but homemade ones? Divine. So fluffy and pillowy and cloud-like&#8230; So when you let a bunch of kids including toddlers go to town with marshmallows and melted chocolate chips, above is what you get. I can practically hear the tut-tutting of food bloggers en masse. Probably not what you&#8217;d call appetizing, but boy were they yummy. We stuck some skewers in and got gooey and sticky while eating them. As a rainy day activity with kids, it&#8217;s relatively easy and scrumptious (though getting them to stop eating was tricky). Cutting up the marshmallows got pretty messy for me, but that&#8217;s part of the fun, right? I let the kids sprinkle extra powdered sugar to help with the cutting, and it was a delicious way to spend an afternoon. And oh, the possibilities! Ghost shapes and Frankenmarshmallows for Halloween! Dipped in steamed milk! Stored in an air tight container for a late afternoon snack, curled up with a good book&#8230;Ah, it&#8217;s feeling like autumn&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cooking","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}