To Your Heart’s Content

Plush Puffs’ President and Head Chef Ann was inspired this week to create this caramel-y delicacy.  Now, how do I get her to make it for me……..

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of Granny Smith apples (cut about 1/2″ thick)
• 6-10 Vanilla Caramels
• Caramel Swirl Plush Puffs (about 2)
• Toasted Pine Nuts (optional)

Arrange the sliced apples on a plate.  Melt the caramels in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds.  Drizzle the caramel over the apples and top with the Caramel Swirl Plush Puffs.  Using a chef’s torch or a small broiler, brown the marshmallows until just gooey (do not over brown as they will turn into a puddle), sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and enjoy!!

Share on Facebook

Even here in sunny California it gets chilly at night (it got all the way down to 55 degrees F Thursday night! Oh my!).  There is no better way to warm up than a good hot chocolate.  Here’s a recipe for an indulgent, creamy hot chocolate that comes from the book Hot Chocolate by Michael Turback.  We’ve added a few accoutrements of our own to transform it into a drinkable S’more.

Double Chocolate Hot Chocolate

• 1 1/3 Cups Heavy Cream
• 1 1/2 Cups of Whole Milk
• 11 oz. Dark Chocolate finely chopped
• 5 oz. Mile Chocolate finely chopped
• 3 Tbs. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• pinch of salt
• Graham crackers, crumbled
• Big bowl of Vanilla Bean Plush Puffs

In a heavy saucepan, heat the cream and milk together until bubbly around the edges.  Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolates, the cocoa powder and the salt.  Let sit for 15 seconds, then whisk until smooth.  Top mugs of the chocolate milk with the Plush Puffs and sprinkle with crumbled graham crackers.

Share on Facebook

It’s been a loooooooong week for Plush Puffs.  The NASFT Fancy Food Show, torrential rain, and more.  So we’re just too tired to come up with an original S’more of the Week and we’re copping out.  But I promise you won’t be disappointed with the taste and fun of this one – and it couldn’t be easier!

Easiest S’more Evah

Ingredients

Simply S’mores Plush Puffs

Directions

Toast a Simply S’more Plush Puff.  Eat it.

Share on Facebook

This week we announced the first of our new Special Limited Edition Plush Puff flavors – Sydney’s Cinnamon. This fabulous flavor is usually only available in bulk, but for a short time, we’re packaging it in our retail boxes. These taste fantastic in hot chocolate making them a great pairing with some mugs as a Valentine’s Day gift. But they also make for some fabulous s’mores. This week’s s’more recipe uses some very special chocolate from our friends at Poco Dolce, Aztec Chile chocolate “tiles” that are made of bittersweet chocolate with cinnamon, ground chiles, roasted pumpkin seeds and topped with grey sea salt. These highlight the sweet cinnamon of our Sydney’s Cinnamon Plush Puffs and make a great s’more.

4 servings

Ingredients:
8 Cinnamon graham crackers halves or 8 snickerdoodle cookies
8 Sydney’s Cinnamon Plush Puffs
4 Poco Dolce Aztec Chile tiles

Place 4 graham cracker halves or 4 snickerdoodles on a plate. Top each with an Aztec Chile tile. Toast up the Plush Puffs over an outdoor fire or over a gas stove (reminder of our recommended toasting techniques here). Put two toasted Plush Puffs on top of the chocolate tiles. Top the s’mores with another graham cracker half or another snickerdoodle cookie.

Hope you enjoy!

Share on Facebook

Valentine’s Day? Already? It’s sooner than you think! Don’t wait to the last minute to get something sweet for your sweetie. A selection of gourmet marshmallows, a couple colorful mugs and some good hot chocolate make an exceptional and unique gift for anyone. We suggest our Peppi-Mint Plush Puffs and this romantic recipe:

Naughty Hot Chocolate
Heat 3/4 cup whole milk
Add 2 Tbs. Dark Chocolate Chips
Whisk until melted

Pour 2 Tbs. of Vanilla Vodka in a coffee or cocoa mug
Pour the milk mixture over the Vodka
Top with Peppi-Mint Plush Puffs

Share on Facebook

All new fans on Facebook and Twitter will be entered to win a Marshmallow Indulgence Gift Box. Get your friends and family to fan or follow us and they will be entered to win, too. Ask them to tweet or message us with your name and you’ll earn an additional entry for the Facebook/Twitter drawing. The more people you get to fan and follow us, the better your chance of winning!

Share on Facebook

Our passion is creating surprising and delicious marshmallow flavors from all natural ingredients. So we are indulging ourselves and our customers with a number of special, limited edition flavors throughout the year. We’re kicking it off with our popular Sydney’s Cinnamon. Previously sold only in bulk, this spicy treat will be available for a short time in our retail packaging. Order now and be entered to win a Marshmallow Indulgence Gift Box! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to be the first to know about other Special Flavor announcements.

Share on Facebook

Plush Puffs is hitting the Winter 2010 Fancy Food Show in San Francisco again this year. We’re very excited to participate again in this big event as we kick of our Special Flavors. In fact, we are bringing a very special flavor with us for sampling – Maple Pecan and Bacon. That’s right folks a bacon marshmallow. Believe you me, it is worth the price of admission alone. We’d love to see you at North Hall booth #603 in the “California” section and try one (and maybe a few of our other all-natural gourmet flavors). But come quick – they won’t last long!

Share on Facebook

We’re now offering all our marshmallow flavors in 1lb bulk bags for those who are more interested in the the marshmallows as opposed to our packaging! Perfect for entertaining or sharing – order some now!

Share on Facebook

Your humble blogger had no idea that there was such a thing as a graham cracker cookie until my grandma-in-law served them at a family gathering. I think I ate my weight in them and demanded the recipe. It turns out, it is an utterly easy recipe and is well known throughout the land. And since then, I’ve seen this cookie made for Passover with matzo which is also super tasty, despite being made with culinary cardboard

Most recipes call for at least nuts to top the cookies off and many also include chocolate chips. You can top them with anything, really, and I thought why not Plush Puffs? Why not indeed – Plush Puffs are the perfect companion. And because it’s made with graham crackers, this is officially a s’more!

Ingredients:
One box of graham crackers
1 cup of butter
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of pecans, walnuts or almonds (optional)
2 packages of Chocolate Chipetta Plush Puffs cut into pieces with kitchen shears

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Break the graham crackers in half to make squares. Line a buttered cookie sheet with the crackers, closely packed. Melt the butter and brown sugar together in a sauce pan, letting it cook for 2 minutes after it boils. Add the nuts and pour over the graham crackers. Bake for 7 minutes and remove from the oven. Sprinkle with the Plush Puffs and let them melt on top. Move the cookies off the cookie sheet as soon as the marshmallow melt and onto cooling racks or aluminum foil.

This makes a LOT of cookies (a whole graham cracker-box worth) so this is great for a party.

Share on Facebook