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Reporting back with another vegan meringue development: you can make vegan Lucky Charms out of a can of freakin’ chickpeas and it’s blowing my mind.

When I made Lemon Meringue Pie and a test batch of meringue cookies over the weekend, my first thought was, “oh shit, this tastes like Lucky Charms marshmallows!” I waited about a day before trying it out. Set aside an afternoon for this recipe because we are making hundreds of little hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers, blue moons, pots of gold, rainbows, and red balloons by hand.



Lucky Charms marshmallows color reference

You should have red, yellow, blue, purple, and green meringue to make the following marshmallows:

1. Hearts (red)

2. Red balloons (red)

3. Red rainbow stripe (red)

4. Stars (yellow)

5. Pots of gold (yellow)

6. Yellow rainbow stripe (yellow)

7. Blue moons (blue)

8. Blue rainbow stripe (blue)

9. Horseshoes (purple)

10. Clovers (green)

Vegan Lucky Charms Yield: 1 box of cereal Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Total Time: 3 hours Make your own homemade vegan Lucky Charms cereal using aquafaba marshmallows! Print Ingredients 1 vegan "Cheerios", or other cereal

1/3 cup aquafaba, (liquid from can of chickpeas)

1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/2 cup sugar

1/8 teaspoon agar powder

3/4 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract

Red, blue, and yellow food coloring Instructions Combine the chickpea liquid and cream of tartar in a stand mixer equipped with a balloon whisk attachment and whip until it starts to thicken. Mix together the sugar and agar powder. Gradually add the sugar/agar mixture and the vanilla, and continue whipping until thick, about 8 minutes. Line 3-4 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Grab 3 small bowls and spoons and divide up the meringue mixture into the bowls. Using food coloring, make red, blue, and yellow meringue. Grab 2 more small bowls, then using some of the red and blue meringue, mix some purple meringue. Then using blue and yellow, make some green. Preheat oven to 200°F. Fill 5 small piping bags or ziptop bags (cut off the tip) with each color of meringue. Using Lucky Charms for reference, pipe your tiny marshmallows onto the prepared cookie sheet. How many marshmallows does this make? A lot. Depending on the size of your marshmallows and the spacing between them, you might fill up 2-4 full cookie sheets. Bake/dehydrate the marshmallows for 1-2 hours depending on the size. Turn off the oven and leave the marshmallows in the oven until they return to room temperature. Finally, mix with cereal, and eat with your non-dairy milk of choice! Notes You can make your marshmallows in any shape.

Try the Halloween Lucky Charms version of this recipe! Nutrition Information: Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1 bowl

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 172 Total Fat: 1g Saturated Fat: 0g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 70mg Carbohydrates: 40g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 29g Protein: 2g All nutritional information presented within this site are intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information on seitanbeatsyourmeat.com should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate. Even though I try to provide accurate nutritional information to the best of my ability, these figures should still be considered estimates. Did you make this recipe? Please leave a comment on the blog or share a photo on Instagram

Making Meringue

If you’re new to making vegan meringue, here’s a video that shows how the bean liquid will whip up:

The verdict?

I ended up using whole oat-y cereal, so the feedback I got was, “this tastes like childhood, but with fiber!”

These marshmallows are lighter and more airy than original Lucky Charms marshmallows, but they hold up just fine in a bowl of cereal and milk. Feel free to play around with the recipe, then report back if you can make the marshmallows any denser. Maybe a mixture of that technique plus more agar powder or a different kind of gum would alter the results.

I accidentally made my rainbow colors in the wrong order because Lucky Charms doesn’t understand how rainbows work and uses blue on the outer stripe.



If you want to go into even more detail, you can mix orange and a darker green to add detail to the pots of gold and make clover hats. But let’s get real: we’re making these marshmallows by hand without the help of a cereal factory, so it’s okay if your clovers are all one color.

I would tell you that they’re magically delicious, but I don’t want a cease and desist letter from General Mills.

Finally, go make some vegan Lucky Charms!

I did not invent the chickpea meringue, or Lucky Charms (duh.) Thank you to Goose Wohlt and Révolution végétale for the inspiration!