Posts Tagged ‘marshmallows’

Crescent Sticky Buns

11/21/2011 by Lara • 3 Comments

Recipe: Sweet Lydia's Crescent Sticky Buns
Total time: 30 minutes
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: marshmallows, crescent roll dough

Alright, this is the last recipe I’m going to tease you with from Sweet Lydia’s Marshmallow Guide, the cookbooklet that Lydia and I created together in response to people asking “What else can you do with marshmallows?”. Lydia is a small business owner located in Lowell, MA and I’ve been a huge fan of her marshmallow creations for a long time now. I was so eager to participate in this project by doing the photography for it (and also taste testing along the way).

This recipe was the first one that blew my mind. You’ll wrap a crescent roll around one of Lydia’s marshmallows (we used her vanilla ones, but you could use any of the flavors she offers) and bake it. As it notes in the recipe below, the marshmallow will expand and then dissolve into the dough, leaving an air pocket of sweetness.

Please please please go and check out Lydia’s book and purchase it with some marshmallows today – you’ll be supporting a woman-owned small business and I know anyone who tries the marshmallows will be blown away. (This is not a sponsored post; I genuinely love her marshmallows!) Unlike store-bought marshmallows, these are made from scratch without preservatives or other gross things and are super soft and tasty (not stale and empty-tasting). My favorites are the raspberry marshmallows, but I what I love the most are her Peanut Butter S’Mores. She puts so much heart into these marshmallow creations; I’ll be so thankful if you go and support her! (more…)

Best Brownies Ever

11/15/2011 by Lara • Comment

Recipe: Sweet Lydia's Best Brownies Ever
Total time: 10 minutes (plus brownie baking time)
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: peanut butter, caramel or Nutella, Sweet Lydia's Marshmallows

Brownies. Peanut butter. (Or Nutella. Or caramel.) One toasted homemade gooey marshmallow to top it all off. Can life get better? I submit that it cannot!

This is another of the amazing recipes from Sweet Lydia’s Marshmallow Guide. Lydia is a friend of mine, and I was lucky enough to do the pictures and taste test all of the recipes for it! All of the recipes in the cookbooklet use a bag of her homemade marshmallows. This one is easily one of my favorites, because holy moly, when you cut into the brownie you’ll be greeted with your choice of peanut butter, Nutella, or caramel!

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Sweet Sweet Potatoes

11/11/2011 by Lara • 4 Comments

Recipe: Sweet Lydia's Sweet Sweet Potatoes
Total time: 1.5 hours
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: cranberries, marshmallows, sweet potato

I’m so excited to announce that one of my favorite people ever, Lydia of Sweet Lydia’s, has just created a cookbooklet. And I was lucky enough to do the photography for it!

Lydia and I cooked up tons of recipes for this book over the course of two weekends. We’d intended to do it in one, but made the mistake of trying everything as we went, resulting in a sugar coma that left us unable to complete the book. But we learned our lesson, and finished everything up before eating everything in sight the second time!

This recipe is from the book, and was my personal favorite to photograph. The result is buttery sweet potato and juicy cranberries in a mason jar or ramekin, with a beautifully-toasted marshmallow on top. You can use any size jar, but I really liked half pints with a marshmallow baked inside in addition to the one on top! (more…)