Learn how to make vegan marshmallow fluff right at home! Perfect on a wide range of desserts like pie, ice cream, or s’mores. This recipe is Top 8 allergen free marshmallow fluff. Just 5 ingredients and one bowl!
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The secret to fluffy, spreadable vegan marshmallow fluff? Aquafaba!
Aquafaba is the liquid from a can of chickpeas and it whips up like egg whites perfectly. As a long-time vegan, we’ve tested this recipe at least a dozen times and it hits all the right notes: light, fluffy, glossy, holds it shapes and it tastes good!
No more expensive store-bought vegan fluff, you can make this at home easily with just a few pantry ingredients.
S’mores night never looked so good! Grab a spoon and let’s go!
What is Aquafaba?
Aquafaba is a recently new discovery. Only within the last 5-10 years have people started using aquafaba. So what is it exactly? Aquafaba is the cooking liquid from certain beans or legumes, such as white beans and chickpeas that has been whipped to resemble egg whites.
The easiest way to get aquafaba is to use the juice from a can of chickpeas. You could also make it yourself by making a pot of dried garbanzo beans and then after cooking the beans, continue cooking until liquid is reduced in half. Cooking the latter way isn’t as easy because you have to make sure the consistency is the same as it would be from a can.
Contrary to what you may be thinking, it actually has a very neutral taste and, when whipped, goes from tannish in color to completely white.
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Why You’ll Love Vegan Fluff
- Cost – It’s literally less than $2 worth of ingredients for a big bowl of fluff!
- Control Over Ingredients – It’s so great to be able to control and know exactly what’s going into a recipe
- Versatile – This fluff can be used in so many ways – as a dip, as a dessert topping, as so much more.
Vegan Fluff Ingredients
Not only is this a Top 8 Allergen Free recipe, but you only need 5 ingredients to make this vegan marshmallow fluff. The ingredients that you need are:
Aquafaba
This is the liquid from a can of chickpeas OR boiling chickpeas from dried while they cook. It’s much easier to have the right consistency from canned chickpeas as there needs to be a thickness to the liquid
Substitute: This can also work with cans of white beans, but we have found that this leaves with a more beany taste in the final product.
Cream of tartar
This is what is helping to stabilize our recipe, help the aquafaba whip up and remain with stiff peaks.
Vegan sugar
Sugar helps us make our fluff sweet and take away some of the bean taste. You can also learn why some sugar isn’t vegan.
Vanilla
Most fluff has a vanilla taste so we’re adding vanilla into our mix for flavor.
Substitute/Addition : You can also use vanilla bean paste or vanilla powder. Alternatively, you can switch up the flavor with something like peppermint extract, strawberry extract, etc.
Powdered sugar
Again, this is helping us with thickness, stabilizing, and adding a sweetness. Which is while we are choosing powdered sugar over a starch.
Please note we have not tested this with other sugars or starches, so we cannot recommend any substitutes outside of what is listed above.
How to Make Vegan Marshmallow Fluff
This vegan marshmallow fluff is insanely to make. In a bowl, combine the aquafaba juice with the vanilla extract and cream of tartar.
- Beat with a stand mixer or hand mixer until it resembles stiff peaks. If you turn the bowl upside down, it shouldn’t go anywhere. This takes approximately 8-10 minutes.
- Once that happens, add in both sugars and beat again until dissolved. The end product should have a glossy finish. That’s it! That’s all you have to do to make this vegan marshmallow fluff. You really can’t get any easier than 5 ingredients, one bowl, and under 15 minutes!
It can even be toasted with a torch just like marshmallows!
How to Enjoy This Egg Free Marshmallow Fluff
You can use this vegan marshmallow fluff anyway that you would use traditionally store bough marshmallow fluff. Some ideas are:
- On top of sweet potato pie
- Spread onto graham crackers with chocolate to make a s’mores
- As a frosting on cakes or cupcakes or a filling inside (try with our dairy free chocolate cupcakes)
- Spread onto bread with peanut butter for a fluffernutter sandwich or spread in between two dairy free peanut butter cookies for fluffernutter cookies
- to make rice krispies treats
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How To Make Marshmallow Fluff
Ingredients
- 3 oz aquafaba (juice from 1 can of chickpeas) (85g)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- ¾ cup vegan cane sugar (150g)
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine aquafaba with vanilla and cream of tartar.
- Beat with stand mixer or hand mixer until it resembles stiff peaks. If you turn the bowl upside down, it shouldn’t go anywhere. This takes approximately 8-10 minutes.
- Add in both sugars and beat again until dissolved. The end product should have a glossy finish.
- Best if used immediately.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is already written to be free of the Top 9 Allergens.
do you think this recipe work in a gf,dairy free ice box s’mores recipe I have. it call for marshmallow fluff but I have someone with egg allergies. it will have to sit for 2 in half days in the fridge.
We’ve never made it and let it sit that long, so I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer.
Have you tried making rice krispy treats with this? If so, would you add butter like the original recipe?
Thanks!!!
I’m sorry we haven’t tried that
Thoughts? would this be good on coffee drinks or Hot chocolate?
yes
I want to try this out for making fantasy fudge, which my great grandma used to make for my sister and I during Christmas. My sister can’t have cane or powdered sugar, though. I saw in another comment that coconut sugar would work as a sub for cane, but what about powdered? Could I omit it maybe?
I feel like I may be trying to be a bit more adventurous than I can handle here, to be honest. Do you have any advice?
Hi I’m sorry to say that I don’t have any recommendations for that at this time. This recipe is pretty finicky and we haven’t tested any subs or omissions