extreme smores
21 OctWe hosted a little bbq last Saturday.
It ended with homemade baileys, pumpkin cream pie, and these smores, made with ginger graham crackers, maple marshmallows, and nutella.
ginger graham crackers
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground ginger
8 Tablespoons (one stick) butter (cut into cubes and chilled)
1/3 cup honey or sorghum (I made one batch of each)
5 Tablespoons whole milk
2 Tablespoons vanilla
topping
3 Tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
To make the dough, combine flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and ginger in bowl of food processor. Pulse to mix. Add butter and pulse until mixture is resembles a course meal.
In a separate bowl, mix together honey, (or sorghum) milk, and vanilla. Add to flour mixture, pulsing to fully incorporate. Turn dough out onto a well floured surface, divide in half and shape each half into a flat rectangle. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for two hours.
Once firm, roll dough on well floured surface to 1/8″ thickness and cut into squares. Place squares on parchment lined sheets and chill 30 minutes in fridge before baking.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix topping ingredients in a small bowl. Sprinkle liberally over squares before baking. Bake for 20 – 25 minutes. Cool on sheet for 5 minutes, then cool completely on rack.
maple marshmallows
The basic recipe can be found here, just add 1 Tablespoon maple extract along with the vanilla extract.
These marshmallows are also perfect in a cup of hot cocoa.
All that’s left is to spread your graham with nutella, toast your marshmallow, and sit back and enjoy.
smore perfection
24 AugI have always felt that smores were a nice idea. Graham cracker, couple of squares of chocolate, a marshmallow, what’s not to like – right? For me, they never live up to the hype surrounding them. It seems that saying no to a smore is against the rules. At times I have found myself eating them because of the peer pressure around the campfire. Usually I cheat the system and char a couple of marshmallows and call it a night.
Then last summer things changed. The spouse had a light bulb moment and instead of grabbing the traditional brown bar he grabbed the Nutella.

Ever since then I can’t even think about a campfire without the expectation of a perfectly warm and melty smore to devour. Here’s a shot of one from last night. I’m sure ours isn’t the first household to come up with this wondrous combination, but we sure are proud of him for coming up with it at our house.











