Battle of Marshmallows: MMF Experiment Part 2

To give justice to the marshmallows sold by SweetCraft, I purposely bought half a kilo of their MM and put it to a test against the other MM brand. By the way, the marshmallow I'm using here was from Carla's in Sucat which is no different in appearance from the ones sold in Chocolate Lovers. To those who don’t know the story why I am doing this, read here.

SC previously claimed their marshmallow is of good quality. They said it is made by Markenburg who also distributes MM products at supermarkets. To really check their quality, Anna (annabanana) also made her own experiment using Markenburg MM from the grocery which turned out well.

To find out what went wrong with my failed batches, I decided to try it myself. I want to check who's fault was it. Was it my cousin whom I entrusted to make the two batches that time or was it the MM from SC? To take out any bias judgment, here's what did and found out.

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These were the two MM's . Obviously, the mallows on the left looks prettier and fresher than on the right. The ones on the right are sticky.

I used the following ratio of ingredients as called for in the recipe:

• 4 oz marshmallow
• 8 oz confectioner sugar
• 1 tbsp water

I started with the SC MM.

At first the melted SC MM doesn’t really look good and couldn’t understand it's consistency.

Once melted, added the sugar but only used less than half of the sugar as it was already dry. The end result was somehow okay. The MMF was pliable.

So my conclusion for the failed batch was my cousin used “too much sugar” that dried out the MMF to an unusable state. I couldn’t blame her for who would have thought that SC’s MM would only require less than half of what the recipe calls for.

Now on with the other MM. Here's how it looked like when melted. Notice the difference.

After both were done, here's how they looked like. No doubt, the one on the right wins again. The one on the left only weighs 7oz, the one on the right 13oz. Also put them to a stress (pliability) test and both passed which means that SC's MM isn't that bad at all as I first thought, my apologies. With that said however does not mean I will be buying their marshmallows :) I used both to decorate this cake... I used the SC MM to cover the entire cake and for the black patches. The whiteness of the other MM really stands out. So if you plan to use white MMF for your cake, my unsolicited advice is, do not buy MM from SC else your white will be greyish white.

here's the final soccer ball cake

My cousin and her family devoured it as I don't like eating cake with fondant icing.