Smores Recipe & Video

Now eating a Smore can be messy business, which makes it perfect food for eating outside around a campfire. For eating at home, however, we need a more practical Smore, one that can be easily made in our kitchens. The answer is a Smore bar (or square). This dessert still uses graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate only in a slightly different way. The graham crackers are going to be in crumb form and mixed with melted butter. Sound familiar? Yes, we are making a graham cracker crust and it is pressed into a baking pan and baked until golden and set. Then we top the baked crust with miniature marshmallows and chocolate chips (or chunks) and pop it back into the oven until the chocolate starts to melt and the marshmallows become all soft and golden. Unlike a Smore that is eaten straight away, these squares need to be cooled completely before removing them from the pan and cutting into squares. They are wonderfully soft and gooey and sweet with the flavors of graham crackers, chocolate, and caramelized marshmallows. I like to think of them as my homemade candy bar.

Of course, store bought miniature marshmallows are perfectly acceptable in these Smores especially when you are short on time. However, using homemade marshmallows (recipe here) in these bars will take them to a whole different level. If you plan ahead the marshmallows can be made up to two weeks in advance and since you won't need the whole batch, there will still be some marshmallows leftover for making hot chocolate (recipe here) or Rice Krispies Treats (recipe here). If you use homemade marshmallows in these bars you will notice that they will lose their shape and become a solid layer of melted marshmallow. Store bought marshmallows, on the other hand, while becoming soft and caramelized, do tend to keep their shape when baked.