S'mores Cookies- a youthful grown up dessert



When I was growing up my family didn't camp. Until I was 29 years old I had never slept outdoors in a tent.

Along with the lack of camping or being a girl scout I had never had s'mores until I had children of my own that had become boy scouts. Recently I was asked by a friend in the restaurant business if I would help design a new dessert menu for the restaurant. I did a little research and the newest trend in sweets was NOT cupcakes but retro snack food. The description of this all around the country from all the hot pastry chef's are those sweets we loved in our lunch boxes like whoopee pies, hoho's and for me it was s'mores. My approach for this Sweet is a deconstructed graham cupcake. I filled it with gooey melted marshmallow and yummy milk chocolate bars or scrumptious Reese's peanut butter cups. The texture of this warm cookie is soft and easy to eat like a sandwich or with a fork. The best part about this recipe is it is Super easy and different. Give it a try and leave me a comment.

Here is a Retro dessert cookie for the little kid in all of us. Serve warm and gooey and it takes you back to your days around the camp fire.

The cast of ingredients that make this soft chewy cookie amazing.

Place the butter and sugar in your mixing bowl and beat until it is light and fluffy.
The butter actually becomes a lighter shade when the butter and sugar is properly mixed.

Add eggs to the butter mixture and blend until incorporated.

Measure dry ingredients into a bowl and stir together.

Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and stir into dough. Chill the dough for 15 minutes.

Portion the chilled dough into 1 ounce balls. Flatten them onto a baking sheet sprayed with pan spray.
Sprinkle the tops with sugar. Bake in a preheated 325 oven for 16.

Allow to cool while you gather s'mores filling ingredients; large marshmallows, milk chocolate bars,or Reese's cups.

Place 2 marshmallows on top of the cookie and microwave from 10-15 seconds.

Place the chocolates onto the melted marshmallows and place another cookie on top.

Melt chocolate chips in microwave and garnish the tops of the s'mores.  Serve warm.

Ingredients:
Graham Cookie Dough
1 cup soft butter
1 1/2 cups Sugar
2 t vanilla extract
3 eggs
3 cups AP flour
3/4 cups Graham crumbs
1 1/2 t Baking Powder
1/4 t Baking soda
1/2 t fine sea salt

S'mores filling:

48 Large marshmallows
12 Reese's cups
12 Milk Chocolate bars