Marshmallow Maker

You won’t find this unique gadget at your local gourmet kitchen emporium, but it might be sitting and waiting just for you and the child that lives within you at the toy store. The price tag is attractive at $24.99 for the kit and $7.99 for refills, and if your lips are about to form the letters w, h, and y, allow me to answer. Some things are on this earth just for fun, a commodity we don’t get enough of and sometimes seem to forget about.

How does the Wham-O Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker work, you might have the courage to ask? Good question. Basically, there are three steps to perfect the Wham-O Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker; mix, squeeze and shape. You mix the marshmallow powder with water, squeeze the sticky mess into molds, which gives the peeps their shape and then let them set and dry for a few minutes. Voilà!

This last in the line of real “cooking toys,” the Wham-O Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker gives kids the chance to create their own Peeps. Although mostly synonymous with Easter, peeps have migrated in slight disguise to other holiday occasions in recent years. The parts of the Wham-O Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker are very easy to clean and are safe in their own little sealed baggies. Even an included coupon is in its own little baggie. Presenting the obvious choking hazard to children anxious to rip open all of them with that old teeth-clench pull (also known as the pre-college try). Some cynics claim that the many bags serve the purpose of making the play set look larger and more involved than it really is.

The Wham-O Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker is really very low tech. There are no batteries, plugs or heat that kids with bad reputations can zero in on. The Wham-O also makes gummy candy and frozen pudding dessert kits. Tread lightly for here nothing has been tested and you really are in territory where no man has gummed up the works before. Proceed at your own risk or do the mature thing and make some…marshmallows peeps!