The Kitchen Whisperer

With summer upon us, most of us will be spending as much time outside as possible. Backyard BBQ’s, working in the garden, or just sitting on the deck with family and friends. To me nothing says summer like making S’mores. Those quintessential simplistic campfire treats that we loved as a child and admittedly as an adult. That first bite of ooey gooey melted toasted marshmallow with gobs of thick chocolate followed by the sweetness of the graham cracker… it was love.♥

Well a few years back we had a major snowstorm that dumped feet of snow, stuck at home my husband and I started talking about warm weather, the sun on our cheeks, sitting around the fire pit and just enjoying being outside… as we stared at the feet of snow and ice.

 

Living in the country we were stranded at home for 3 days as our roads were impassable.  Eventually they brought the plows out to take care of our roads.  However being told you can’t go somewhere or knowing that you can’t drive and that you have no control over it drives me crazy.  So with the internet being down (thank you monstrous icicles on our lines) I had but one thing to do… cook!

Thinking about our discussion on summer, I decided to make something ‘summery’. If we couldn’t go outside and sit around the campfire, I’d bring it indoors to us. If memory serves me correctly, I had all type of campfire food for dinner – I grilled hotdogs over the burners on the stoves, heated baked beans in the can, and fried potatoes in my cast iron skillet.  Obviously if you are camping you have a S’mores. I mean it’s like a law or something.  However I really didn’t want the typical ones where you toast your marshmallow on a stick and then put it a piece of Hershey’s chocolate and 2 graham crackers.  Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of marshmallows.  I mean they are soooooooooooooo sickening sweet and if I want dessert I want to be able to eat more than one bite of it without going into like sugar shock.  I’m that person that if we roast marshmallows I will toast mine super dark, peel off the ‘skin’, eat that and then toast it again.  Almost eating it in layers.  Like that way, I can eat maybe 2.. but that’s pushing it.  My teeth hurt and I feel blah.

So planning dinner that day was a breeze but I was perplexed on how I could make something “s’morish” but not an actual S’more.  LOL  “S’morish”  HAHA that makes me giggle   ANYYYYYYYYYWAY…

Since I’ve made graham crackers before I tweaked the recipe to make them more cookie-ish (they are insanely delicious!).  At the time I used simple Fluff, chocolate chunks and a fudge ganache.  Now I’ve evolved this recipe to make them a TKW speciality item by using homemade Fluff filling (for me this took the cookie to the bajillionth level of awesomeness) and while I’m not giving out that recipe, the original is still incredible.

These cookies capture that campfire and summer feeling. With the graham cracker cookie to the ganache filling with the melted chocolate and ooey gooey marshmallow fluff. Then to top it off, toasting the marshmallow filling.

And FYI…. these cookies you can make in a muffin tin, whoopie pie pan or in a tart pan with a removable bottom.

 

Additions: At this point you can dip the bottoms into chocolate (turn upside down to cool).

To give it that ‘campfire’ effect, add another Tbl of fluff on top of the cooled cookie, spread it out and using your kitchen torch, roast the marshmallow.