Homemade Marshmallows -Don't Try this at Home!

I just had some hot chocolate w/marshmallows today with my son Cameron. I usually just add the little marshamllows that you but in a bag at the grocery store. Over Christmas however, I decided to try making my own. I was inspired by a friend of mine who made some & they were perfect looking, great tatsing & she said easy to make. It only takes a few ingredients and a good stand mixer so, how hard could it be? Uh, like next to impossible (if you're asking me). I consider myself to be a pretty profficient cook and baker but, there are some things that transcend this. The funny thing is, when I looked for a good recipe online, I got one with a story of how ridiculously messed up it was the first time she attempted it. I also got one w/a video tutorial w/a Martha Stewart wanna-be who made it look simple (and boring). Anyways, the funny thing is I read the story from the one lady & she was saying that after she mixed everything together & was ready to put the mixture in the pan, it was incredibly sticky & she couldn't get it off her hands. It was like a giant sticky spider webb that she kept transferring from one hand to another. Anyway, after watching the other boring lady video tutorial (twice, I might add), I proceeded & everything went well until after the mixing part. Then, it was just as if I had written that one ladies story. It was exactly as ridiculously convoluted as she said. If you try to scrape the mixture out of the bowl it's so sticky that it won't come off the spatula or the beater so, like an idiot, I dipped my one stupid little hand in it. When I couldn't get it out, I made the mistake that really propelled me into marshmallow mayhem, I used my other hand to try to pull the marshmallow mixture off. Picture yourself pulling Elmer's glue out of a bowl using both hands. No matter what I did, all I did was transfer this sticky junk back & forth between my hands. Of course, then my husband walks in the room looking like "What the F***?" and makes some horrendous comment that I can't recall because I was so freaked out by him witnessing this. Did I mention that I had decided to tackle this on Xmas Eve & that at this point, we were about 1/2 hr. away from serving a nice Christmas dinner to my Mom & Step-dad? Yeah, what was I thinking? I was so close to just aborting the whole mission & pretending the whole idea/scene had never happened. When I finally got at least half of the mixture into the pan, I decided okay, that will have to be enough & I managed to finally get my hands clean with lots of warm water. The marshmallows have to sit for like 12 hrs. before their ready to eat so, I was able to act like "la la la la, marshmallows completed & in the waiting phase, no big deal". When I was actually dreading the fact that I'd have to deal w/them again to get them out of the pan & cut them into squares etc. Once, the shell shock is fianlly gone (the scars are just too new!), I may attempt this again. But, even though I was originally going to post the recipe here, I really don't recommend trying this at home!