Note: I was sent samples of Bear Mountain BBQ Wood Pellets in order to write this post. Opinions are mine alone.
With Memorial Day right around the corner, it’s time for more recipes using Bear Mountain BBQ Wood Pellets! This one is a bit different than my previous two posts fort Smoked Potato Salad and Smoked Wings… this time I’m bringing you dessert: a Smoker Grilled S’mores Skillet to be exact!
As a city girl, I don’t exactly get a lot of opportunities to roast some marshmallows over an open fire, but I do love s’mores!
I have quite a few St. Patrick’s Day recipes on here, but I thought it was worth adding in one decidedly untraditional and whimsical recipe: Lucky Charms Marshmallow Treats!
The treats are made the same way as other chewy bars from your childhood but have the extra fun of colorful marshmallows! To keep the marshmallows mostly intact, this recipe adds the marshmallows back in at the end.
Note: I was sent OXO’s 8-Piece POP Container Baking Set in order to write this post. Opinions are mine alone.
Have you picked up on my love of S’mores yet? 🙂 As a city girl, I don’t get the opportunity to enjoy an actual s’mores over an open fire very often, so I love creating the same flavors at home in baked goods and other treats. So you know I jumped on the opportunity to make a batch of Marc Murphy’s Smores Cookies to support Cookies for Kids’ Cancer.
Every year, OXO makes a commitment to donate up to $100,000 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, donating $100 for every blog post (like this one). In order to help me make this post, OXO sent over their new 8-Piece POP Container Baking Set.
source: https://www.cookiesforkidscancer.org/
I have been using POP Containers for years, and couldn’t wait to use the new and improved versions! As always, the POP containers are a must-have to keep your pantry organized. The clear containers are airtight, stackable, space-efficient, and the new versions are completely dishwasher safe! I use POP containers for everything from my baking supplies to grains, lentils, dried beans… you name it! The 8 piece baking set includes two 0.4 qt containers (great for baking powder, chocolate chips, coconut flakes, etc.), one 1.1 qt container (perfect for brown sugar), and two 4.4 qt containers (sized to fit 5 lb bags of flour and sugar), along with some other baking-centric goodies: two 1/2 cup scoops that secure to the underside of the lids and a brown sugar terracotta saver that keeps brown sugar soft and clump-free. Besides now being completely dishwasher safe, another upgrade is the handy fill line, so you don’t overfill your POP containers.
source: oxo.com
I couldn’t wait to fill up my new POP containers. I used the 4.4 quart containers for flour and sugar (I clearly need to add sugar to my grocery list!), and added the 1/2 cup measuring scoops to the containers. I filled the 1.1 quarter container with light brown sugar, and, after soaking the Brown Sugar Saver in water for 15 minutes, secured it to the underside of the lid.
Lastly, I filled the 0.4 quart containers with baking soda (hooray! no more worrying about the potency of my open baking soda!) and my graham cracker crumbs.
I adjusted the original recipe just a bit, so visit this link if you’d like to see the original.
I come from a fairly large family. Growing up, my cousins and I would see each other nearly every Sunday for dinner at our grandparents. As we’ve gotten older, we clearly don’t have as many opportunities to see each other. So we decided to have a cousin barbecue for those of us that still live in the Philadelphia area.
Whenever I think of outdoor cooking, I naturally think of S’mores for dessert.
Because I was hosting, I wanted to pre-make as much of the food as I could, so I decided to make Smores Bars for us to enjoy!
These are super easy, and absolutely addicting!
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
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There is nothing quite as nostalgically delicious as biting into a s’more. The gooey, chocolatey, crunchy dessert reminds me of campfires, childhood, and summer camp. But living in Philadelphia means roasting s’mores over an outdoor campfire is a bit unlikely. I was having friends up for the weekend and I thought it would be fun to roast s’mores indoors like the urbanite I am, because who says s’mores can only be done around a campfire out in the woods?
Making a s’mores bar is really simple and doesn’t take long to set up. You just need your main ingredients and a heat source and you’re good to go!
I set up a little s’mores bar in the kitchen, with s’mores ingredients and a s’mores roasting station made from a planter box with sternos and filled with rocks. I added some wire netting on top so that the marshmallows didn’t come into direct contact with the flame.
For the tablescape, I used a gingham tablecloth, wood rounds for the s’mores ingredients, and a chalkboard for a truly awful (amazing?) pun. I also printed out a quote from one of my favorite movies (The Sandlot) about how to make s’mores. A little owl made an appearance as well to finish off the outdoors-indoors theme.
The bar included all of the traditional fixin’s – Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bars, Honey Maid Graham Cracker Squares, and Kraft’s Jet Puffed Marshmallows.
I then snazzed it up a bit with a few different options to give more selection – Reese’s, Hershey’s Mini Candies (Krackel, Mr Goodbar, and Dark Chocolate), Banana Chips, and fresh Strawberries and Bananas.
I found all of the ingredients I needed at Walmart; they currently even have a display with all the traditional goodies you need! (The Honey Maid Graham Cracker Squares are exclusively found at Walmart and are the perfect size for s’mores making.)
To make indoor s’mores, first add a Honey Maid Graham Cracker Square to a plate.
Top the Graham Cracker Square with Hershey’s Milk Chocolate (or another chocolatey candy bar). If you’d like to add fresh fruit or other ingredients, place them on top of the chocolate.
Add a Jet Puffed Marshmallow to a skewer and hold the marshmallow over the flame and roast, turning occasionally to brown evenly.
Once browned to your liking, place the marshmallow on top of the chocolate and use a second graham cracker square to pull the skewer from the marshmallow.
I love how the warmed marshmallow slightly melts the chocolate making a gooey, crunchy, and oh so tasty little snack.
We naturally had a taste test to see which options were the best. Favorite combinations from the group included Reese’s and Banana slices, Krackel and Strawberry slices, and Mr. Goodbar and banana chips.
You could go really crazy and make a “double decker” s’mores: graham cracker, chocolate, marshmallow, graham cracker, another chocolate, another marshmallow, and a final graham cracker!
Or if you didn’t want to work with an open flame, melt the chocolate in a bowl, dip the marshmallows in the chocolate, and then sprinkle with crushed graham crackers for a s’mores pop on a stick!
My friends and I had so much fun toasting marshmallows around our “campfire,” and it was really simple to set up! The indoor s’mores bar would be a great addition to any get-together, or rainy day gathering. As a winter baby, I will probably set this back up again for my birthday to get a taste of summer in the cold months!
What s’mores combo is your favorite? What other ingredients would you include in your s’mores bar?
It’s that time of year again! I signed up for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap again this year and got some great ideas for what to bake for Christmas!
In its third year, the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap helps raise money for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a national non-profit organization committed to funding new therapies used in the fight against pediatric cancer, which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease. The swap raised $13,778.40 this year, raised through blogger participants donations and matching donations from OXO, Dixie Crystals, Gold Medal, and Grandma’s Molasses. The goal was $10,000, so to get nearly $4,000 more in donations is amazing!
So here’s how the actual swapping part of this works: I was assigned three food bloggers and made one dozen cookies for each of them. In return, I received three different boxes of cookies from other bloggers.
Last year, I received a batch of hot cocoa cookies that were SO good I was craving them again this year. So I decided to make some myself! The chocolate cookies are topped with mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, and a touch of grated chocolate. I based my recipe off of Rachel Ray’s Hot Cocoa Cookies recipe.
Anyone else still have a house full of Peeps following Easter? Those poor little marshmallow leftovers are past even their somewhat stale crunchy stage and are just kind of hanging around at this point. So I decided it was about time to put them to good use. Peeps S’mores time!
Ever since I made the S’mores Milkshakes, I have had S’mores on my mind. So what better way to utilize a house full of sugar coated marshmallows than by making a batch of festive after-Easter Peeps S’mores?
Ingredients (makes 2 servings):
2 graham crackers, halved
1 chocolate candy bar, halved (milk or dark, I prefer dark)
I am so excited to share this cookbook with you. It’s an entire cookbook dedicated to Milkshakes! I have a serious ice cream addition, so it should go without saying that I love milkshakes. Although I’m never one to turn down a simple chocolate or cookies and cream milkshake, this cookbook brings milkshakes to a completely different level. Malts & Milkshakes: 60 Recipes for Frosty, Creamy, Frozen Treats has everything from the classics, to modern flavors, and even boozy shakes. The Author, Autumn Martin, is the founder of Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery in Seattle, so she knows her desserts!
All of the recipes can be made using ingredients found in your supermarket, but it also includes recipes for making your own homemade ice cream if you’re feeling particularly fancy. There are so many inventive recipes in this book: eggnog, earl grey, salted caramel, and mango rose milk shakes to name a few. And those don’t even include the boozy milkshakes! My two favorite ones from that section: Chocolate Espresso Whiskey Malt and Chipotle Spice Sipping Chocolate Shake. This book is not messing around!
Another favorite was the S’mores Shake. Few things symbolize wonderful summer memories like S’mores. Chocolate, Marshmallow, and Graham Crackers sound like a perfect combination in a milkshake too! I changed the recipe up ever so slightly, but the general idea is still in tact.
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
8 marshmallows, roasted
1/4 cup milk (I used skim)
6 scoops vanilla ice cream (~3 cups)
2 scoops chocolate ice cream (~1 cup)
1/2 cup crumbled graham crackers, plus more for garnish
The simplest actions can really make your day. Sometimes all you need to turn a day around is a simple pick me up. This hot chocolate is a really easy way to put a smile on your, or your loved ones, face(s). It’s also a perfect Valentine’s Day drink! I found this cute recipe on Martha Stewart.
Ingredients:
(this makes 2 cups)
4 cups whole milk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons plus one teaspoon unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
