I learned this morning that today is National S’mores Day. August 10, every year. How could I have missed that? Since we had all the main ingredients in the kitchen, I could hardly resist. I have seen several recipes for s’mores bars around the internet and thought that would be a fun way to mix it up since we can’t exactly build a fire in our back yard. We didn’t have all the ingredients for any one recipe, so we kind of made it up as we went along – the girls did most of the hard work while I took photos 🙂
Molly crunched up some graham crackers.
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Megan sliced up the big marshmallows we had into smaller pieces.
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Then they mixed the crushed up graham crackers into some melted butter. I also added a little salt and some sugar, but after tasting them, I think we could have done without the sugar.
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Molly buttered the pan.
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Then we pressed the graham cracker crumbly mess into the bottom of the pan. Molly had the bright idea of using Nutella. Since we only had a little bit left, I thought “Why not?” On top of the Nutella they scattered about half a bag of chocolate chunks. Then they arranged the marshmallows on top.
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We had set aside a little of the graham cracker crumb mixture to sprinkle over the top. Here they are jockeying to see who can do sprinkle more of it.
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We baked them for about 20 minutes till they got nice and toasty brown on top.
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I let them cool for a bit, and then we cut into them. They were hard to cut because they were so sticky – I think refrigerating them would have helped a lot, but there wasn’t time for that before bedtime. Two happy girls:
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