Marshmallow

Marshmallow is a confectionery with sweet or sweet-sour taste, delicate aroma and porous structure.

Sweet dessert is made from whipped with sugar fruit mass and proteins, which added gelling agent: gelatin, furcellaran, agar or pectin, food additives that improve the taste and color of the product.

The product is prepared on the basis of pectin – light and airy, its taste is a little sour. The sweetness produced on the basis of agar-agar is characterized by a denser consistency, and on the basis of gelatin – increased elasticity.

The authorship of the technology of preparation of marshmallows belongs to the French. Taking as a basis the recipe of the usual pastes, French confectioners added egg mousse to it, so a new dish was born, which received, thanks to the delicate, airy taste, the name of marshmallows, which means a light wind.

Confectionery sweetness is:

• unglazed and painted in different colors: white, light yellow, pale pink, cream, pale blue;
• glazed with white, dark or milk chocolate, yogurt, icing sugar;
• filled with marmalade, chocolate, caramelized condensed milk, jam;
• with nuts, powdered sugar or coconut;
• cooked on fructose or stevia and specifically designed for diabetic menu.