By Angelina Falco
Herald Intern
The City of Casselberry recently hosted an event with music, food, and art called Casselberry Food Trucks.
At this event, they had small businesses supporting their brand, an art showcase on display, and the ‘Music City Rejects’ band there. At the event, there were food trucks that sold tacos, burgers, ice cream, and even s’mores from scratch.
Owned by Jean and Julie Summers, Sugar Rush Marshmallows will have been in business for 10 years this upcoming May. Traveling around Central Florida on the weekends, the two pride their brand on bringing child-like wonder to adults all around.
“We met in Korea, came home together and were looking for jobs. We had started making marshmallows and handing them out to friends and family. Enough people were telling us, ‘You should do this,’ so we started making our gram crackers, got a tent, then got the food truck, and it just went from there,” Jean Summers said.
Both being English teachers in Korea, the two met in a taekwondo class and decided to move back to the United States. They started their business, got married, and have been doing this everyday since. They have made all types of flavors, ranging from bourbon to sriracha and even one called “s’moreo.” When they can, they try to highlight local produce, such as the strawberries from the Florida Strawberry Festival.
They don’t only sell s’mores, however. On their menu, there’s also banana pudding, oatmeal cream pie, and a cereal treat. These desserts range from five to twelve dollars.
“Our mission for the business is to give people a little bit of nostalgia,” Jean Summers said. “We try to specialize in American-style desserts, whether it’s brownies or banana pudding or s’mores. We try to stay around the general marshmallow area. We’re trying to help you capture that moment, give you a little bit of a messy face, messy fingers, and just have a good time for a second. We figured a good way to do that would be getting a truck and getting on the road. We really like being mobile like this. It’s fun to go to different places and be out.”
When buying a s’more, you’re allowed to pick up two flavors of marshmallow to be put on the s’more. One of the Summers will make the dessert front and center, engraved with a marshmallow and a flame on both the chocolate they make and their gram crackers. They serve it with free wet wipes as well.
Sugar Rush Marshmallows travel around “s’morlando” and visit farmer’s markets on Sundays at the Orlando Farmers Market and Mondays at the Audubon Park Community Market. With almost all parts of their s’more made from scratch, the couple continues to travel through Central Florida, making their desserts for that child-like wonder.
