Our Own Marshmallow Biscuits

This week our mission is to create our own recipes. And our group chose to make a Chinese dessert called “Marshmallow Biscuits”, which has appearance like this:

Here is the original recipe of it:
1. Non-stick pan

2. Milk Powder 45 grams

3. Marshmallow 150 grams

4. Butter 40 grams

5. Dry Blueberry 40 grams

6. Nuts 60 grams

7. Biscuit 180 grams

This recipe can make Marshmallow Biscuits white, sweet with a little bit salty, and a texture of soft and gummy.

But our own recipes are different from the original one. We will use three types of substitutes separately in order to create three kinds of different Marshmallow Biscuits^ ^

The first substitute we will use is arabinose, which is uptake from sucrose, to replace the marshmallow in the original recipe. Because all of the recipes of Marshmallow Biscuits we found online are using marshmallow as the sweetness-contributer, we want to see what difference will be made if we use another kind of sugar. In my opinion, using arabinose will change the texture of our Marshmallow Biscuits from soft to hard, because arabinose is a type of hard candy, and we wish to see it changing the texture of Marshmallow Biscuits dramatically.

The second and third changes we will try is the biscuits we use. The original recipe to make biscuits is:

1.  One egg

2.  Two egg yolks

3.  Sugar 50 grams

4.  Cake flour 80 grams

As our second change, we will use the combination of regular flour and corn starch with the ratio of 4:1 as a substitute of cake flour. We are expecting to see the biscuits will get a closer inside structure due to the sticky characteristic of corn starch.

For our third, which is also the last change, we are going to use coconut powder to take the place of cake flour. Because coconut powder is made from coconuts, so we hope to have biscuits have a little bit of coconut taste and a good smell.

All of these changes are chosen because we want to see what change will be made on Marshmallow Biscuits with different types of sugar and starches. And wish we can successfully make those Marshmallow Biscuits with these ingredients! ^~^