S'Mores! 

No campfire necessary! 

National S'Mores Day is TODAY!!!! I will go ahead and say that in my opinion S'Mores are an American Institution! Sort of like Apple Pie! Generally a kids indulgence that adults love just as much. Throwbacks to memories of childhood will dance in most adults heads when they indulge in the fun of making and consuming S'Mores!  

Generally for most children, S'Mores were reserved for times when you they were camping or at least in close proximity to a campfire!  If you were lucky like me, your parents let you make s'mores at home when the fireplace was on. Ahh, those were the days when fireplaces were real wood and not these gas logs that you see now-a-days! Any thought I have of s'mores is ooey, gooey, slightly messy and sinfully delicious!

The recipe I've chosen to showcase S'Mores is a bar type cookie! It is another Shauna G original recipe therefore I am not going to share the recipe, but I plan to show you the steps along the way!  

Look at the cookie bar base dough! Yummy and graham cracker-y!

You notice I've lined my baking dish with parchment paper for ease in cutting the finished bar cookie later on. I've put a layer of dough down and loaded up some marshmallows cut in half, immediately followed by a bunch of one of my favorite ingredients lately - mini chocolate chips! There are many recipes similar to this on the net, but none quite like mine, I assure you!

Then I put another layer of cookie dough on top of the marshmallow and mini chocolate chips and baked it off! The finished baked product is displayed below. Little volcanos of marshmallows and chocolate chips appeared in the middle of cooking, but hey that's okay! 

 

I let the cookies cool for about an hour or so until I couldn't stand it any longer and cut into them.

S'Mores truly captured in a bar cookie which equals a less messy form! While the marshmallows in the middle became melty and you can't really see them the taste was still there! The more they cooled off the more present the flavor of graham crackers was. Here's another picture of the yumminess!

The good news? They are gone as of today? I took half to work and my husband took the other half. If these were around my house I would be in trouble because I would practically bury my face in the pan until they were gone!