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I have been looking for a recipe for S'mores Bars since they started showing up in bakery cases a few years ago. I guess the idea of moving S'mores from the campfire to a bar started with the boxed granola bar. The mass product manufacturers didn't get it right though. Eating a boxed S'more granola bar is like eating textured, scented cardboard. S'mores Bars in bakery cases don't fare too well either. The usual recipe seems to be overly sweet chocolate brownies with marshmallows and graham cracker crumbs on the top. But I have the right recipe now! The bottom is 2 parts graham crackers to one part chocolate. Perfect ratio, right? The graham crackers and chocolate are held together with sweetened goodness and there are sticky, gooey, melted marshmallows on top. The right flavor. The right texture. The right stickiness. I wasn't a girl scout for 17 years for nothing!
The inspiration for this recipe came from The Taste of Home "Cookies...623 Irresistable Delights". Page 217 has a Graham Cracker Brownie recipe attributed to Cathy Guffey from PA. I just the marshmallows and gave the bars a more appropriate name.
I am thinking I need to double this recipe next time and make it in an 13 x 11 inch pan.
S'mores Bars
2 cups crushed graham crackers (1 cellophane wrapped package)
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups miniature marshmallows
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8x8 inch baking pan. Crush the graham crackers by whacking them in the package. I use a meat mallet, but the back of a soup ladle, measuring cup, or small pan will also work--don't make really fine crumbs, though. Leave some big pieces. Put the (large)crumbs in a mixing bowl, add the chocolate chips, baking powder and salt and combine. Stir in the sweetened condensed milk. Spread mixture into an 8x8 inch baking pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Take out of oven and sprinkle miniature marshmallows over the top.
Return pan to oven for 4-5 minutes to melt marshmallows. Remove pan from oven and quickly spread melting marshmallows smoothly over the top with an offset spatula.
Let bars cool completely. Now comes the hard part, cutting the bars. I find it a bit easier to use a warmed knife for each cut...but it is still a sticky job, which makes them true S'mores Bars!. Cut into 16 bars.
How many girl scouts, former and current, stopped by my kitchen today? Do you think you'll try these?
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