Make your own creamy hot chocolate or red velvet hot chocolate at home and top it with regular or flavored homemade marshmallow for a treat that you won’t soon forget! What is it about Halloween that brings out the kid in all of us? Ok, most of us? Fine, some of us? I have no clue, because I didn’t even celebrate it growing up, because it just wasn’t a thing in New Zealand. Or Sri Lanka. Or maybe that’s just it! Maybe I’m making up for all the lost years and memories and candy with all the spooky Halloween recipes now. Halloween was one of the things that excited me about moving to the US (I know!), and as a food blogger, it gives me even more chance to geek out now! 🙂
Butterscotch swirl marshmallows
I know this is a little early, but I’ve got one kick ass, decadent, delicious recipe for you guys today that’s perfect for Halloween. But it works just as well on any cold wintry night (or day), or any day of the year for that matter! Because seriously, how often are you going to say no to a Butterscotch Swirl Marshmallow with Red Velvet Hot Chocolate? It’s a marriage of delicious desserts and cozy winter recipes. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m loving that halloween candy has already made its way to shelves in all of the supermarkets! Maybe it’s all in the marketing, maybe it’s all in our heads like someone wise once said, but I feel like there’s just something a little special about candy that’s dressed up and comes out just for that brief time every year. Makes those sweets a little sweeter. And the treats I’ve used here were plenty special! M&M “boo-terscotch” white chocolate candies and Dove Milk Chocolate Ghosts from Target. As soon as I heard about them, I knew I had to get my hands on some. I ended up getting my hands on even more, because thanks to my impulsiveness – that age old enemy of every shopper in the world! I even made these Butterscotch Puffed Rice Cookies using these treats! I decided to give in to my inner-child and make some eye-popping, decadent treat for Halloween by making “googly-eye” butterscotch swirl marshmallows with Dove milk chocolate ghosts or M&M boo-terscotch candies, in a cup of hot, spiced, creamy, delicious and “bloody” red velvet hot chocolate using my homemade hot chocolate mix! 🙂
Hot chocolate and marshmallows
You can use any hot chocolate mix you prefer here, but I have my own hot chocolate mix that’s just infinitely better than anything I can get at the store, and I also show you here how you could create your own creamy red velvet hot chocolate using that same mix! I have a soft spot for marshmallows, because I grew up watching my grandmother make marshmallows, killing it without fancy sugar thermometers and all. My mother and aunt would help her out by checking the stages of cooked sugar with a little saucer and some water. She made the whole process look so effortless, like it was some witchcraft that mere mortals like my younger self could never understand. Which is why I love making marshmallows now. I’ve shared several recipes over the years, like this vanilla marshmallows, chocolate marshmallows, peppermint marshmallows, tahini marshmallows, orange blossom marshmallows etc. I love making these treats so much, I even shared a candy temperature chart to show how I determined cooked sugar stages.
Homemade marshmallows are so much better than store-bought
Let me just say that homemade marshmallows are nothing like store-bought marshmallows. The flavor and texture are quite unique, and you can add your own beautiful flavors that will no doubt taste heaps better than the artificially flavored ones in the store. If you wanted to treat yourself to some homemade marshmallow decadence, you can’t do much better than butterscotch swirl marshmallows studded with chocolate! And I also have a recipe for butterscotch marshmallows (buttered rum marshmallows), so you know that’s a flavor combo that I can’t resist! Can you imagine how great these marshmallows would be in S’mores (or s’mores cookies even!)? Or in a hot chocolate like this Parisian hot chocolate or peanut butter hot chocolate? Melting away in that deliciously hot, thick, creamy, hot chocolate, infusing it with butterscotch flavor, while softening that Dove milk chocolate in the centre which also then dissolves into the drink? Well, imagine no more, I got you covered. Here’s the recipe! 🙂 I personally prefer to toast the butterscotch swirled marshmallow with chocolate before I add it to my red velvet hot chocolate, because then the “googly-eye” is more visible, plus the marshmallow tastes even better then with that burnt/toasted flavor. Imagine a toasted, caramelized butterscotch swirl marshmallow on a stick? Holy s’mores, that’s good! But even if you’re not a fan of toasted marshmallows, these ones here are better than regular ones any day! Ripples of butterscotch that create beautiful layers of flavor, like you had butterscotch toffee inside pillowy soft marshmallows. Mmmmm…. These marshmallows are also great as Christmas treats and holiday gifts! Gourmet butterscotch swirl marshmallow with studded chocolate – who wouldn’t love that?? And since there are no egg whites in these butterscotch swirl marshmallows, they will keep for a long time in an air-tight container as well. So just bottle ’em up, along with a bottle of “bloody” red velvet hot chocolate mix and you’ve got one glorious Halloween/Christmas/Holiday gift!
Recipe video
What spooky treats will you be making this Halloween? I will be making my fan favorite witch’s heart Halloween cocktail as usual, and pair these with some Halloween monster cookies! 🙂 If you liked this butterscotch swirled marshmallow with red velvet hot chocolate recipe, don’t forget to subscribe for new (and free) recipes by entering your email address on the side bar (and get all these recipes delivered straight to your inbox), so you don’t miss out on a thing. You can find me on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, PINTEREST, YOU TUBE and GOOGLE-PLUS too.
