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Vegan Marshmallows: Win 'Em Here!

A chocolate-marshmallow sandwich!
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Marshmallows have never been on my list of "most missed desserts," but when I recently heard about a New Zealand company that sells vegan marshmallow kits, the wheels began to turn and I started thinking of other ways to use marshmallow mixture before it sets into squares. Then there was the "aha!" moment when I realized it could possibly be whipped up into the perfect meringue-like topping.

So you can't imagine how happy I was when Angel Foods, the company mentioned above, actually contacted me about testing its vegan marshmallow kits. Of course I said, "Hell yeah, but only if you'll donate a kit for my readers too!" (Contest details below.)

I just received my kit, and I must say that it does seem intimidating at first. Two packets of powdery white substances—I, too, wondered how many alarms that set off—and a seemingly complicated set of instructions (and you have to supply your own water, starch, sugar, syrup, and vanilla). But after reading the instructions, I realized that it's not complicated at all—you just need the proper tools (a candy thermometer and a stand mixer being the most important) and patience. I had neither.

Vegan lemon meringue bars
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I have to admit that I skipped the thermometer and just eyeballed it, and I also used a hand mixer instead of one on a stand, which the instructions do not recommend. I probably rushed the mixing process, too, because I felt like my arm was about to fall off, but with that said, the marshmallows still turned out great! Light, sweet, and totally addictive.

Half of the mixture was placed in a pan to cool and then later cut into squares. They are honestly much tastier than I even expected. The other half was added to the top of lemon bars for a meringue-like topping. For the meringue, I mixed the marshmallows halfway through the cooling process to try and create additional air pockets for lightness. This probably wasn't necessary and made the meringue look not-so-pretty, so I recommend piping it or scooping it onto your already-baked bars or pie as soon as it's done mixing. Regardless of how it looks, it tastes exactly how I remember lemon meringue pie.

The Angel Food vegan marshmallow kit
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Sorry for the long post, but reading it was worth it because now is your chance to win one of the vegan marshmallow kits from Angel Foods. Just leave a short comment below about what you'll do with the vegan marshmallows if you win.

The contest ends on May 20, and the winner will be notified by May 23. And just so you know…by leaving a comment, you're acknowledging that you've read and agreed to our privacy policy and our terms and conditions. Good luck!

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Edith Kirkland :

If I won the vegan marshmellows I would share them with others in my family and try to open their mind to the vegan lifestyle. I think it is important to be healthy and in order to do so you have to care about what you are putting into your body. In addition, rewarding your self with good food causes dramatic changes in your attitude. Helping you to make a difference in others lives.

kittee :

I'm wanting to try these, I've heard so much about them. If I win, I'll make them up and probably make fudge with 'em.

xo
kittee

I will make myself vegan mallows for s'more-making round the campfire this summer as I go off to camp for six weeks in Utah and Montana with my omnivorous geology classmates on our field camp cours, so I won't feel left out!

Liza :

I would make all sorts of vegan deserts that call for marshmallows...such as crispy treats. I would also love to make some for my hot chocolate.

Larry Miller :

Thirty years plus a vegan and thirty years without smores.
Need I say (s)more?

Jamie :

If I win the marshmallows, I'll use them to win friends and influence others. Seriously, I bake a lot for the professors, staff, and students in my department (Nuclear Engineering). I would love to show them that there is nothing I can't do within a vegan diet! I always enjoy watching some middle-aged men enjoy sweet treats, and then casually mention "Yeah, I brought those", which everyone knows means "they're vegan!"

Lauren :

What wouldn't I do with them?! I would throw them in cakes and brownies, make s'mores and for some reason I have an urge to dip them in chocolate.

Shawn :

Wow, vegan marshmallows! My son absolutely loves marshmallows - when he was 5, he wrote a letter to Santa that requested only a Leap Pad and some marshmallows for Christmas that year. Once we found out about where gelatin comes from, we dropped marshmallows from our shopping lists, much to his disappointment. I would absolutely love to be able to watch him enjoy his favorite desert again!

I wish to try one of thouse cuz here in brazil we are missing stuff like that... all I can get is tofu :P

Danielle :

Since becoming vegan, marshmallows are one of the treats I've missed the most! I always loved making rice krispy treats and s'mores. I would love a chance to try these out to share with my my friends and family who often don't understand there are still a plethora of food choices even if you don't use animal products.... plus I would love to have rice krispy treats back in my life!! :o)

Kimberly :

My vegan marshmallows are going camping with me! They'll make some delicious non-creepy s'mores!!

Nehal :

If I win, I would distribute the vegan marshmallows to my students so they could learn that compassion can be delicious!

Deena :

I would love to use marshmallows to make some fantastic Rice Krispy treats, which I haven't had in years. I might even make them with peanut butter too...mmm!

Kayla :

If i won i would show everyone that vegan and other vegetarian meals are just as delicious as those meals that contain meat and animal products. I would let all my friends taste them and they would then help me promote the true meaning of being a vegetarian.

bex :

I've been wanting to try these as well. I don't have a stand mixer so I'm glad to hear it can be done without. I can't wait to try these as smores! Yet another delicious item to further convince my staff to go vegan!

Teri Begin :

If I win, I plan to host a big bonfire night at our house, and do an all-vegan bbq, with vegan smores as the dessert, and share my lifestyle and the horrors of animal cruelty (that will be the "ghost stories" around the campfire) with my friends and family!

Megan :

If I win a marshmallow kit, I'd use it for my planned Sneaky Vegan Dinner Party for my naysaying omni friends.

The Sneaky Vegan Dinner Party, as I imagine it now, would consist of me making a fabulous multi-course candlelit feast, complete with awesome vegan wines. As my friends know me to be a vegetarian, they'll certainly know there wouldn't be meat in any of the dishes but they'll have no idea they're vegan. At the end of the night, I'd let the proverbial cat out of the bag and watch their amazed realizations that vegan food can be so tasty.

Using these marshmallows for a dessert would be so very sneaky and would make the reveal all the more awesome. I'm also notorious for eschewing marshmallows on sweet potatoes at our Thanksgiving gathering. They saw my refusal as an inconvenience. How delicious--literally--it would be to use vegan marshmallows to get them back.

Danielle :

Marshmallow is one of the things I miss the most! My boyfriend and I go camping every year and roasting them around the campfire would add to memories.

I'd love to say I have lofty culinary aspirations for those marshmallows (if I win the kit), but I imagine I'd eat most of them plain! I think it'd be fun to sandwich them between amaranth graham crackers with some vegan chocolate for s'mores, though, too.

Mike :

"Hell yeah, but only if you'll donate a kit for my readers too!"

Hell yeah is right! Thanks Amy, you rock.

Anthony :

S'mores!!!!!AHHHH. Need I say any'smore'. I Just really would like s'more of those marshmallows. OK thats enough....

Nancee :

Hello (long overdue) Vegan Fluffer Nutters! Your time has come! :)

Sara MacKenzie :

I would LOVE to roast marshmellows over an open fire again here in Maine!

Alexis Reesor :

I want to share the vegan marshmellows with coworkers and family members. They are not so accepting of my new vegan lifestyle. I would like to prove that vegans are not deprived, we are revived and healthy not eating the rotting insides of defendless animals.

Zane :

While that chocolate and marshmallow sandwich looks delicious, I've been jonesin' for a peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich for some time now.

Jenny :

If I were to win this I would make, a very deliciour and vegan lemon merangue pie, use for my hot chocolate, other disserts and make them for smores for out at camp for my carnivour friends, and not tell them until they ask why the smores were extra good this year. I make them every year at camp for everyone who come out to camp.

Marti :

As an ER nurse, frequent baker and fledgling vegan I would devour as much as I could at home! I'm thinking about using them as frostings for cakes, banana bread, maybe sprinkle some toasted coconut on top. How about tossed around with some nuts for something sweet & salty? If my daughter and I had any leftovers, which there usually are, I would share the rest with the staff at work & spread the happier vegan lifestyle!

jess :

this made my day.

Annalisa Unbedacht :

If I won vegan marshmallows I would make chocolate marshmallow sandwiches for everyone in my lit class. I recently delivered a speech about vegetarianism for that class and everyone liked it, if I made a vegan treat like the marshmallow sandwich they could see just how awesome being vegan really is!

Rachel :

I am a big nerd and I have a book of ancient Egyptian recipes (the ancient Egyptians supposedly being the culture to invent marshmallows) and I would use the kit to make one of those strangely ancient desserts and share it with my friends!

jenifer washington :

If I won the marshmellows I would pass them out to my kids friends at the neighborhood park in hopes they would tell there parents how good they are mostly how good for you they are!

My brother and dad recently built a fire pit in our backyard in time for summer, so I would definitely love the marshmallows to make s'mores and join in on my family's fun! I actually bought some (not home-made) vegan marshmallows a few weeks ago and was hoping to save them for a few weeks to participate in my family's many campfires at night, but when my entire (omni) family was so interested in the concept of a vegan marshmallow, I gladly let them try some- and boy, did they like them! The box was finished in about 5 minutes! So now I'm just enjoying the campfires without any sugary goodness, but some vegan marhsmallows to enjoy and wow my family even more would be great!

Jessica S :

My husband and I are going on a cross country road trip this summer. We'll need lots of vegan marshmallows to roast over the fire for smores and banana boats (bananas stuffed with marshmallows and chocolate chips then cooked over the fire).

Maureen :

Ahhh marshmallows! I haven't had them in years! Smores sound wonderful... and with hot chocolate would be delicious! I have a recipe for chocolate mousse that calls for marshmallows that I would make first! I need to try that recipe!

thea :

If I were to win these, and believe me I'd love to, as they are not available here, I'd definitely come up with something a little unusual. Of course, I love the classics, such as the vegan key lime 'cheese'cake with chocolate graham crust that I make a few times a year, and that would be delicious topped with a vanilla-scented marshmallow 'meringue', with a little flaked toasted coconut on top. As well as the ever-popular Ambrosia salad, made even more heavenly with the satisfaction of knowing it is cruelty-free. But, I have to say, as much as I would have to try those, I'd feel the nagging urge to save some so I could...'Experiment', per se. All the delicious and creative possibilities swarming through my head are making my mouth water, and if you'd be so kind as to choose me for the winner, my hollow-legged-never-ever-full-please-make-food-now boyfriend and all others I know would be happy to submit their tastebubs to me, and I will gladly post the recipe up here for others to enjoy. I am only 18, but cooking (and eating) animal-friendly cuisine is my passion, and I'm sure I can come up with a winning recipe. I'm off to go cook up a vegan storm!

Paige :

I have been missing rice krispie treats! So I would make a big pan of them :)

Zoe Poeschl :

Smores of course!

s :

i used to make a nonvegan recipe called chocolate-covered cherry brownies that could be veganized - except for the marshmallows. these brownies were honestly the single most sinful item i've ever put in my mouth, and i can't wait to make them again...

Jennifer :

I would make vegan rice crispie treats, vegan fluffer 'nutter sandwiches and I suppose just stuff my vegan face with them. Great idea!!!

I would totally make vegan s'mores in the oven. :)

Linda :

I'd dunk them in some Mexican hot chocolate, simply because I've never had marshmallows in hot chocolate. :(

Then I'd rave about them on all the online groups I run so that more vegans could know they're out there! :)

Lena :

I would take them on a camping trip so my family and fiends could roast them over a fire! Also, I would totally make some krispy rice treats with them to share with others! mmmm...vegan marshmallows.

If I were to win the vegan marshmallow kit, I would try to make some Peeps for two very small rug rats who were so disappointed Easter Weekend when their mom and dad took them to a vegetarian place for dinner and they had real Peeps on the plates for the kids and were clueless to what was in them. Toby (age 3) and Rosa (just one) cried and cried and I have been all over trying to find a recipe to make them to no avail. I wish I could figure out a way to use the jarred mallow I got locally but it really isn't shapeable into bunnies and chicks. Pick me maybe?

Marc :

If I won these marshmallows, I'd share them with friends at home, and show them the possibilities of a vegan diet. Hopefully I'd be able to convert some of them. I would also either use them in recipes or send them to friends I volunteered with in Louisiana after the hurricanes to show how grateful I was for being turned on to my vegan lifestyle by them. If there'd be any more left, I'd hope to have some of that goodness for myself.

Beth Mickens :

Oh My if I had some vegan marshmallows! I'm sure I would find every way possible to use every single bit of them up...but what I miss teh most are rice krispy treats and s'mores!!! I would immediately make me some s'mores and some vegan rice krispy treats and since rice krispy treats are my husbands favorite snack, I would sneakingly give him some before telling him they're vegan and prove to him that vegan is still just as yummy and healthier!
Oh and I would have to make some candied yams nothing's better than sweet buttery topped with marshmallow yams or sweet potatoes!

Tracy :

If I won, I would make some for the kids to make s'mores while camping, throw some into brownies and eat some plain.
I have been dying to try one of these kits. I blogged about it on my site, but haven't been able to afford a kit.
BTW, if you want PB and fluff sandwiches, try Suzannes Ricemellow, it is vegan and great in pb & fluff sandwiches.

Amy :

S'MORES!! My boyfriend, I don't think, has had a s'more ever because there are really no decent vegan marshmallows out there.

Chloe Butchers :

I love marshmallows and other sweets, but being only 15 i should. If i were to win i would make them with my friends and eat them with them. So hopefully they would love the idea and be more encouraged to become vegan as they adore marshmallows even more than i do!

Rebecca :

My husband and I have only recently become vegetarians and have struggled getting our 4 small children on board. They are missing many of the convenience snacks they used to eat. This would be a wonderful treat for them to be able to have a yummy familiar taste that they ask for again and again!

Anonymous :

If I won the vegan marshmellows I would share them with others in my family and try to open their mind to the vegan lifestyle. I think it is important to be healthy and in order to do so you have to care about what you are putting into your body. In addition, rewarding your self with good food causes dramatic changes in your attitude. Helping you to make a difference in others lives.

xanax :

bake vegan lemon meringue marshmellow for everyone! yay!

then let them know that vegans live healthier && tastier!

Jenny :

I'd love to win these! I think they'd be great cut into a big square to float on top of hot chocolate! (Not very original, but tasty!)

Daneen :

Winning this wonderful prize would result in me making delicious vegan fudge and possibly some rice krispie treats. Yummy!

Justin :

i've been waiting for something like this for the longest time! i have a whole list of things that i would like to try. topping my list are fudge and rice crispies! my non-vegetarian friends were surprised when they found out what was in marshmallows and now theyre excited to try these vegan marshmallows if i win them!

Amanda Hammaker :

I really want to try these! I would love to make them for my parents and my little brothers. :) I can't wait to try them!!

Hilary :

Vegan marshmallows oh my! Hot chocolate, rice crispy treats, fudge, s’mores….I will be the most popular person at all the potlucks!

Cinde Shields :

My five year old has recently been diagnosed with Celiac Disease (Gluten Intolerance) and has also decided she does not want to consume animal products. She has given up most of her favorite foods as a result. She often comments that she misses marshmallows the most. I would be most grateful to give her the chance to enjoy them once again.

Oooohhhh..... I have'nt had marshmallows in years! I don't think I even remember what to do with them!

Dawn Bates :

It would be hard to choose between Smores and Rice Crispy Treats. Mmmmmmm

Mya Brooks :

Make smores and Fluffernutters, of course!

Otu :

I'd share them with my boyfriend and all other friends who think veganism is all about giving up everything but carrots!

linda :

Roasting marshmallows is one of my favorite things to do when i go camping.

tay :

vegan can be very hard to b

Phyllis Davis :

I am currently changing over and leaving meat behind.I don't know why I did'nt do it sooner as I never was much into meat. I am trying new things and looking for my special tastes.Some things will take some getting used to and others are pretty darn good.I would love to give these a try and share them with the kids and grandkids.I am trying to change some of the way they eat also..lol..

Joan Coussoule :

I would love these for the grandbabies

Anne :

Eat em!!! Smores would be a HAVE to do!!

Carolyn :

I never tried them and just recently became Vegan so hope to win. If I win I would never eat regular marshmallows again. I use them in hot chocolate but mostly eat them alone.
;-) Thanks.

jolene :

i woud have smores for the first time in years.

Elizabeth Weiss :

Being a Kosher eating vegetarian, it is very hard for me to find kosher marshmallows with no gelatin in them.
If I win this, I will dance in the streets! No gelatin! vegan and kosher...yay! Besides for dancing, I will also make these for mother's day. My mom would love these, being that she eats kosher just like me!

Sonia :

I think that everyone in the world should have access to vegan marshmallows.

Denise :

I would take them on my vacation to Yellowstone this summer.

ADrienne Gordon :

roast them in out fire pit

AnneMarie DeRemer :

Would love to try this. My teen daughter is taking home ec and baking up a storm at home, one of her faves is marshallow rice krispie treats!!!

Les :

Crispie treats.... oh, how i've missed them. I would love to try this kit so I could make some (not to mention making all the other wonderful marshmallow desserts that i've been without for so long).
I'm going to check out the Angel Foods company immediately!

Fiana Shapiro :

If I won this marshmallow-making kit, I would be totally excited because for some reason marshmallows are just about the one food I really miss since becoming vegetarian. They're just so sweet and creamy and..marshmallowy...
I would cook up a batch to share with all my neighbors around a bonfire in our backyards, convincing them that you don't need gelatin to make a good marshmallow. Of course, I would also send some to my sister, who is just as marshmallow deprived as I am.

jim anderson :

smores- camping season is nearly upon us

marissa :

i'd eat 'em! :)

Aaron Richardson :

Test them in hot chocolate. Yum!

jacki :

Make vegan smores, of course!

Melissa Carraway :

I would love to win this! We strive to eat kosher and we would eat these right out of the bag.

Brian N. :

Everything can be cruelty free...except Bush.

Audrey :

I saw Martha Stewart make marshmellows and wanted to try it. Coooool!

jane jakins :

WOW THIS IS GREAT

jane jakins :

WOW THIS IS GREAT

Debra Casey :

OMG! SMORES!!!!! W/vegan chocolate and gram crackers, yummmm

susan varney :

vegan and bagels alright

CAROLYN :

VEGAN YOUR PARDON!

Hello! If I won the contest I'd make vegan rice krispie squares because they're my fave and I haven't had then in years!

Beverly Kludy :

Ooh! Definitely fudge, maybe a batch of rice krispie treats, Mmmm ... and just eat them!

Tonya Keener :

free yummies..... if I win I will fill as if I have died and gone to heaven

KAREN STANLEY :

I would eat them and I hope I would share with my sister who after years of sending me pictures of animal cruelty to animals I became a vegan 12 years ago -she has been a vegan since she was 13 {she is 48}I love marshmallows and WANT THESE-because of gelatin so many things I will not eat I was not aware of this product till Now THANKS!!

Janene Grace :

No doubt about it.....I would eat them. Not share them. All for me!

I want to eat them. =)