S’Mores Pie

  I have made so many S’mores recipes, it’s not even funny.  But I JUST CAN’T HELP MYSELF! 

I am a S’mores loving fool!

 Some of the recipes I have made and posted on this blog are….

No Bake S’Mores Bars
 
I Want S’More Bars

 

Gooey S’mores Cake 

And Fluffy S’mores Cake.

  Not to leave any dessert-type out, I now give you S’Mores Pie, adapted from a recipe on Weekend Potluck from Cookies & Cups!

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Ingredients

• 1 stick Softened Butter
• ½ cups White Sugar
• 1 cup Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 whole Egg
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 cup Graham Cracker Crumbs
• 7 ounces, weight Container Of Marshmallow Creme
• 8 whole {1.55 Oz} Hershey’s Chocolate Bars
• 1 cup Marshmallows
• ¼ cups Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350° and spray a 9″ pie pan with baking spray.
Beat butter and sugar together until combined, then add egg and vanilla.
Stir in flour, graham cracker crumbs and baking powder. Divide the dough in half. Press half the dough in the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pie pan.
Evenly spread the Marshmallow Creme over the bottom crust
Separate chocolate squares and place on top of the Marshmallow Creme.
paper. Place 1 cup of full sized marshmallows on top.
Using remaining crust, pat sections of dough on top of and around all the marshmallows. {they will still show through and that is GREAT!}
Sprinkle with 1/4 cup chocolate chips, then bake 20 minutes until lightly browned.
Cool COMPLETELY before cutting, or you will have a gooey mess that looks nothing like a piece of pie.

Not that I would know……

   Okay, okay, maybe I DO know. 

Either way, enjoy your gooey treat!

~T

No Bake S’Mores Bars

  If you have been following my blog for a while, you know by now, a few things about me:

1) I am an Ice Cream-a-holic and may or may not have 8 different kinds of ice cream in my freezer at all times.

2) I am GAGA over anything toffee or caramel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! {drool}

3) I like sour cream, cream cheese or anything whippy or creamy!

4) I LOVE everything that tastes like S’mores, especially around October.

5) I need my list to stop at 5, because stopping at 4 felt wrong. This is called OCD.

  Anyhow, I have posted a VARIETY of S’mores-esque recipes in the past like…..

Gooey S’Mores Cake    I Want S’More Bars

And,

Fluffy S’Mores Cake!

  But none as easy as the new S’mores bars in town.  Ok, not new, I totally remember making these as a kid, but NEW as in I had forgotten all about them!

  Oh, how I have missed you…….

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Ingredients

• 12 ounces, weight Golden Grahams Cereal
• 16 ounces, weight Mini Marshmallows
• 1-½ cup Mini Chocolate Chips
• ½ cups Chocolate Chunks
• 5 Tablespoons Butter

In a pan, melt butter until just browned, add 5 cups of marshmallows. Stir until melted. Remove from heat and scrape into large mixing bowl.
Add cereal to bowl and toss to coat. Add both kinds of chocolate chips and remaining marshmallows. Stir.
Press s’mores mixture into a greased 8×11 rectangle glass pan. Refrigerate for one hour to firm up, then cut into squares.
Serve at room temperature.

YUM!

~T

Gooey S’Mores Cake

  If you haven’t figured it out yet, S’Mores are one {of many!} of my food weaknesses.

  I have made I Want S’More Bars:

Fluffy S’mores Cake

And just plain ol’ S’mores over the open fire.

I guess I just can’t resist a good S’Mores Recipe, because now I have another one to share with you.  It’s got this great sticky, shiny marshmallow-esque frosting that you smear all over it! 

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Ingredients

FOR THE CAKE:

• ½ cups Shortening
• ¼ cups Softened Butter
• 1 cup Sugar
• 3 whole Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 2-¾ cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
• 12 ounces, fluid Evaporated Milk

FOR THE FROSTING:

• 4 whole Egg Whites
• 1 cup Sugar
• ½ teaspoons Cream Of Tartar
• 1-½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• ½ cups Chocolate Chips
• Marshmallows, Graham Cracker Crumbs & Hershey Bars For Garnish

Spray and flour 2 – 9 inch pans, set aside. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar, butter, and shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
Add cracker crumbs and baking powder, alternating with the entire can of milk, continually beating mixture.
Divide between 2 pans and bake at 350* for 18-22 minutes or until done. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to cool.
For the frosting:
In a large saucepan, combine egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar. Heat over low heat. Using an immersion or hand blender, beat on low until frosting reaches 160* or is steaming but not boiling yet. (about 8-10 minutes) Pour into a large bowl, add vanilla and beat on high until stiff peaks form. (5-7 minutes)
Place 1st cake on cake plate and smear 2/3 cup frosting over the top of it. Sprinkle with chocolate chips before topping with 2nd cake. Use the remaining frosting to cover top and sides of both cakes.
Garnish as you desire with marshmallows, graham cracker crumbs and Hershey bars.

Dig in!

~T

Fluffy S’Mores Cake

Hi everyone! I was gone allll day yesterday helping my mom at her new house, and it was grocery day too.  I literally left the house at 9 and returned home for dinner.  I did stop home once, at 11:30 to throw the groceries in their homes, but then back to my mom’s.  This time, I didn’t return until supper time. (Dale was super sweet and had supper started!!!! Brownie points!!!!!!)  I don’t know how momma’s that work outside the home do it. I am exhausted, and I didn’t get HALF the stuff accomplished I wanted to today.  So alas, all I have to offer you today is a recipe, but that’s fun too, RIGHT?!  Especially when I tell you it’s DESSERT!  Mmmm!

  This creamy, mousse-like cake was DIVINE!  And pretty too!

• FOR CRUST
• 9 whole Rectangles Graham Cracker, Crushed
• 6 Tablespoons Butter, Melted
• ¼ cubes Sugar
• FOR FILLING:
• 12 ounces, weight Extra Creamy Cool Whip, Thawed (divided Use)
• 11-½ ounces, weight Milk Chocolate Chips
• 8 ounces, weight Sour Cream
• 7 ounces, weight Marshmallow Cream
• 6 whole Graham Rectangles, Crushed
• TOPPING:
• 1 whole Hershey’s Bar, Broken In Bits
• Graham Crackers, Broken In Bits
• Mini Marshmallows
• Large Marshmallows, Cut In Half (Optional)

Crush Graham crackers and mix with sugar and melted butter. Form a crust in the bottom of your springform pan. Bake at 350* for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool before continuing.
Carefully melt chocolate chips on stove top or in microwave, stirring often so it doesn’t scorch. Stir in 1 cup cool whip and pour over cooled crust, spreading evenly and freeze for 10 minutes to set.
Combine sour cream, marshmallow cream,remaining cool whip and crushed graham crackers. Spread over chocolate layer. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until set.
“Decorate” using marshmallows, broken graham crackers and chocolate. You might want to press large marshmallow halves all the way around the perimeter to make it pretty. (I used Gingerbread marshmallows)

Return to fridge until serving time.

It’s very rich, slice ‘em small!

~T

I Want S’More Bars

  Fall is here! Bringing with her, crisp air, crunchy leaves and jackets.

  When the Foodie in me thinks of Fall, I think of Apple Cider, Corn candy, Casseroles, Homemade Bread, Pumpkin everything: cookies, bars, cakes, cheesecakes, and last but not least…..

S’MORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  We host a Bonfire every October for our Sunday school class (50 of us last year!!!! Woah!) and I usually get my S’mores fix then. 

Or, sometimes I get a fix mid-winter, like January, during a very long ice storm that kept us holed up for DAYS, huddled next to the fire.  What better activity to pass time then to make some S’mores!!!!

  I am not a food trend kinda gal, but apparently S’mores stuffed cookies, bars, & pizzas were all the rage this summer. Huh! Who knew?

  Trendy or not, this recipe is perfect for those in-between S’mores cravings, when no bonfire or open fireplace is available to you……

from Chemically Inclined

2/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar, packed
½ cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 ½ cups flour
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
5 oz mini marshmallows
3 regular sized Hershey’s bars, broken into rectangles
16 graham crackers, broken into squares

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line jelly roll pan with parchment paper. Break crackers into squares and place side by side in your pan.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon to combine. Set aside.

In your mixer, cream butter with white and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.

Add the flour mixture to the butter mixer and combine.

Fold in the chocolate chips and marshmallows. Chill dough in refrigerator for 1 hour to overnight. (cold is easier to work with)

Place tablespoons of dough on graham crackers, press until crackers are completely covered.

Bake for 5 minutes then remove from oven to press Hershey’s bar pieces on to the top.  Bake for 5 – 7 more minutes or until dough is beginning to turn golden brown at the edges.

Remove to a wire rack to cool. For clean cutting make sure cookies are completely cool and cut with a sharp knife.

  DIG IN! These are seriously AMAZING! The graham cracker base is a really nice touch, totally different from other S’mores recipes I have made in the past.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Coming MONDAY:  Photos from my first-ever, all by myself Wedding. 

{biting nails}

~T

This post linked to:

Hugs & Cookies

This Chick Cooks

 Full Plate Thursday

On the Menu Monday

Melt In Your Mouth Monday

Tuesday Talent Show

Snow Day Fun

   As I am writing you this evening, it’s 5* with -22*wind chill and a couple of inches of snow on the ground…school was cancelled, so I got my girl home for the day! 🙂  I love being home with everyone safe and warm, we have so much to be thankful for!

  The first thing the kids did when they found out there was no school for big sis, was declare it “Jammie Day!”

  Ok, ok twist my arm…..they’re warm, they’re snuggly and it’ll save time later at bedtime…I’m in!!!!

   They played hide & seek and ended up under Destiny’s bed playing “tent” most of the morning.  After nap time, as a special treat, we busted out the marshmallows to make S’mores. 

 

  If you know me, you know I am anti-sugary snacks, but on this snowy day with a fire crackling in the fireplace, it just seemed like the right thing to do.  It made their day! 🙂

  Being the official “S’more Maker” is a MESSY (but delicious) job!!!!

  Oh, here is an interesting tidbit for you….

Did you know Walmart’s Graham Crackers no longer come in rectangle shape?  Nope, they are already broke in half.  Convenient, but kinda sad.  I LOVED eating those huge rectangles when I was a kid. 

Do they have to go and change EVERYTHING?

  Pax took a nice nap this afternoon, but woke up a bit frantic. 

I went to his room to figure out what was wrong…..

  

  Little stinker had managed to wedge himself across the bottom of the bed and every time he kicked, he hit his head! 

    To make a great day even better, Daddy came home early!

    The rest of the afternoon was spent reading books, coloring and playing games. 

  We finished the evening with a yummy soup supper, Creamy Tortilla Soup (recipe to come) and a Custard Pie, using fresh eggs from our new feathered friends.  The crust recipe I used made two crusts, so I was forced to make a Peanut Butter Pie as well.  Oh the shame of it all!  The Custard Pie is devoured, only two pathetically small pieces remain.  The PB Pie awaits tomorrow nights dessert! YUM! 

Speaking of tomorrow….It’s back to reality, but what a great break!   

Never mind, I just got “the call”;  No school Wednesday either!  YAY!  🙂

Stay warm today!  Oh, and Happy Groundhog Day….

  Here’s to hoping the little critter doesn’t see his shadow, so we have a shorter winter!  But let’s be realistic, he is no weather forecaster!!! 

~T