Six Tasty S’mores Recipes for When You Can’t Get to a Camp fire
Posted By: Shopprice New Zealand
S’mores are one of summer and fall’ scrucial foods: Simple ingredients combined with a warm campfire to make a sweet, melted, crunchy treat. But if the weather isn’t cooperating –or you’re just craving the classic with no camping plans on the calendar — use the three essential ingredients (chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers) in everything from pancakes and muffins to grain bars and pie.
1. S’mores Popcorn
Salty popcorn meets its match in the pleasantness of s’mores ingredients with this recipe for s’mores popcorn from Foodbeast. You can use a bag of microwave popcorn for the base or pop your own; then add crumbled graham crackers and drizzle with a mix of melted butter, chocolate, and marshmallows. Toss with additional chips and marshmallows for a sweet and crisp snack.
2. S’mores Hot Chocolate
Turning a cup of nagging hot chocolate into an ode to s’mores is so simple you’ll wonder why you never thought of it before: After all, chocolate and marshmallows are both essential to the perfect cup of hot cocoa. This recipe from the Minimalist Baker takes the drink to other level by mixing the hot chocolate from scratch — no packaged powder here! — and lining the rim of the mug with crushed graham cracker crumbs. Then broil the mugs to toast the marshmallows (or use a little kitchen torch if you have one).
3. S’mores Pie
Though the finished product looks a lot like skillet s’mores dip, this chocolate-filled pie with a graham cracker crust from Gimme Some Oven can be operable warm or cold. The thick chocolate middle is the star here, but the lightly toasted marshmallows bout it from a traditional pie into a new family classic.
4. S’mores Cupcakes
Like in the pancakes, the covert to these cupcakes’ authentic s’mores sapour is in replacing half the flour with graham cracker crumbs. But instead of making a boring chocolate or chocolate chip cupcake and tossing some marshmallows on top, Smitten Kitchen fills each mini cake with milk chocolate ganache, tops them with marshmallow frosting, and uses a kitchen torch to lightly chestnut the topping.
5. S’mores Cheesecake
This no-bake recipe for s’mores cheesecake is an simple, last-minute dessert that goes from ingredients to finished product in ten minutes — including making your German graham cracker crust. Mix softened marshmallows in with the cream cheese filling and top the cheesecake with melted chocolate to bring out the flavors; then serve the chilled pie to get your s’mores fix even when the weather is too hot for a campfire.
6. S’mores Pie Pops
Make your next group of s’mores a little more portable by prepping them in the oven — and using a pastry crust (instead of a graham cracker) to repose the marshmallow and chocolate contained. That’s how Tonia at The Gunny Sack made these s’mores pie pops; adding a candy stick to each before the chocolate cooled gray them from messy finger food into slightly-less-messy popsicle-inspired treats.