{"id":1271,"date":"2011-12-01T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:49:52","slug":"marshmallow-snowballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Marshmallow Snowballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Thanksgiving we seem to be surrounded by a theme.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s theme turned out to be &#8220;The Search for Brandon&#8217;s Grandma&#8217;s &#8220;Puffball&#8221; Recipe&#8221;.\u00a0 It was prompted by Brandon&#8217;s cousin posting on her Facebook page that she was looking for the recipe to surprise her dad.\u00a0 Brandon replied I had a similar recipe and I would send it along to her.<\/p>\n<p>Grandma&#8217;s recipe has been elusive.\u00a0 Brandon had asked his mom for years about this recipe and was told that she never had it.\u00a0 He told me about them and I had no idea what he was talking about.\u00a0 Puffballs?\u00a0 I had him describe them so I could search for something similar.\u00a0 After searching for a while I took parts from a few recipes and came up with a recipe and had made them for Christmas a few years ago.\u00a0 Brandon said they were good and that was that.\u00a0 Until this year.<\/p>\n<p>With his cousin on the task of recreating Grandma&#8217;s exact recipe there was much debate about the recipe I had.\u00a0 Should they be made with or without nuts, with or without coconut, drain or not drain the pineapple, whipping cream or sweetened condensed milk?\u00a0 I had no idea, I never had Grandma&#8217;s and I was just going by Brandon&#8217;s recollection of them.<\/p>\n<p>I had intended on making these again for Brandon for Christmas but all this talk about them over Thanksgiving gave me the desire to try them out for myself again.\u00a0 I made some adjustments to my original recipe from the feedback Brandon&#8217;s cousin had given me about the recipe I gave her.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Snowball Dessert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/picture\/snowball3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"easyrecipe\">\n<table class=\"ERHDTable\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"item ERName\"><span class=\"fn\">Marshmallow Snowballs<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"ERRatingOuter\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"ERRatingInner\" style=\"width: 0%;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"review hreview-aggregate\"><span class=\"rating\"><span class=\"average\">#ratingval#<\/span> from <span class=\"count\">#reviews#<\/span> reviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"ERHDPrint\" valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"btnERPrint\" style=\"display: none;\">Print<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Recipe Type: <span class=\"tag\">Dessert<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Author: <span class=\"author\">MelissaEtto.com<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Cook time: <span class=\"cooktime\">2 hours<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Total time: <span class=\"duration\">2 hours<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Serves: <span class=\"yield\">12<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERIngredientsHeader\">Ingredients<\/div>\n<ul class=\"ingredients\">\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 bag Mini Marshmallows<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 can Crushed Pineapple (drained)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup Whipping Cream<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 Tbs Sugar<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 cup shredded Coconut (optional)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">4 oz pecans (chopped &#8211; optional)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Graham Crackers crumbs (2 sleeves) or Box of Vanilla Wafers Crushed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ERInstructionsHeader\">Instructions<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions\">\n<ol>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Place marshmallows in a large bowl, add the drained crushed pineapple and stir. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for an hour.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Remove the marshmallows from the refrigerator and stir in the coconut and nuts if using.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Whip the Whipping Cream with an electric mixer and add the sugar while mixing. Fold the whipped cream into the marshmallow mixture.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Roll the mixture into balls (I use a ice cream scoop to keep them uniform in size) then roll the balls in the crumbs.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Place the Snowballs in an airtight container and keep refrigerated until serving.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ERLinkback\" style=\"display: none;\">Google Recipe View Microformatting by <a title=\"Wordpress Recipe Plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orgasmicchef.com\/easyrecipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Recipe<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"endeasyrecipe\" style=\"display: none;\">2.1.7<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I used graham cracker crumbs, no nuts and coconut in these and they turned out pretty darn good!\u00a0 They got the family star of approval.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Snowball Dessert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/picture\/snowball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Thanksgiving we seem to be surrounded by a theme.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s theme turned out to be &#8220;The Search for Brandon&#8217;s Grandma&#8217;s &#8220;Puffball&#8221; Recipe&#8221;.\u00a0 It was prompted by Brandon&#8217;s cousin posting on her Facebook page that she was looking for the recipe to surprise her dad.\u00a0 Brandon replied I had a similar recipe and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1,131],"tags":[137,139,138,136],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-uncategorized","category-whats-cooking","tag-marshmallow-snowball-dessert","tag-puff-balls","tag-snowball-dessert","tag-thanksgiving-theme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}