Hot chocolate recipe – Giant campfire marshmallows required

hot chocolate, hot cocoa | December 8, 2011 | By

Giant jumbo campfire marshamallows for hot cocoa in a penguin mug

 
Adorable penguin cups are optional, but these giant, jumbo marshmallows just make hot chocolate way more fun, even if you’re not a huge marshmallow fan.
 
Giant jumbo campfire marshamallows for hot cocoa with chocolate chips as a smiley face
 
Add a chocolate chip smiley face and winter blues will melt away.
 
Giant jumbo campfire marshamallows for hot cocoa sinking in chocolate
 
Actually, so will the marshmallow. And the chocolate chips. It was tricky to get the chips to stick in the first place, but getting the marshmallow to stay upright while I tried to take a picture -and- the chocolate chips from sliding off had us all giggling for a while.
 
Giant jumbo campfire marshamallows for hot cocoa
 
If you don’t have a penguin cup, tea cups make the marshmallow look even more abnormally large.
 
Giant jumbo campfire marshamallows for hot cocoa in a giant cereal bowl cup
 
Or put them in a giant soup bowl and they’ll look strangely tiny in comparison again, hehe.

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Keep this mix stashed in the pantry for cold days. Or Swiss Miss….she makes a good one, too. ;)
Bulk Hot Cocoa Mix
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 cup cocoa (Dutch-process preferred)
  • 2 1/2 cups powdered milk

Also, while looking around for pictures of the marshmallows, I found these sheep/lamb marshmallow pops

Marshmallow lamb sheep pops using giant marshmallows on sticks

Sweet Simple Stuff has a full tutorial of how to make them. So cute!

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    Shiloh
    December 9, 2011

    Oh boy! I’m not sure I knew they made marshmallows that big! What a super fun blog. I’m all about food and playing, so playing with food is terrific.:) I’m a new follower from Terrific Thursdays.

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    Matt @ FaveDiets
    December 13, 2011

    Your hot cocoa mix recipe is perfect for those awesome over-sized marshmallows! Thanks for linking up to my hop.

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