The Perfect S'More - and your variations!

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Raise your hand if you ate a s’more this weekend!!! Me! (just one)

Around the campfire we had a discussion about the “perfect” s’more…

  • what makes your sandwich - plain graham cracker? Lorna Doone? Cinnamon graham cracker?
  • the marshmellow - lightly browned, browned and puffed? Burnt to a crisp?
  • the chocolate…Hershey’s milk chocolate? Reeses?? Something else???

I’m a “one and done” s’more person. One good one, perfectly done and it’s enough. The best combo I’ve had:
Nature Valley Granola Thins for the sandwich (https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Valley-Granola-Thins-Chocolate/dp/B003ZTCINA)
Marshmellow, heavily browned and puffed
Hershey’s chocolate optional due to the chocolate on the cracker.

What’s your favorite combo?

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Chocolate covered graham cracker or those round shortbread cookies with chocolate stripes, thin schmear of peanut butter, brown, puffed marshmallow with just a bit of char.

If using regular graham crackers, try a Ghirardelli salted caramel square for the chocolate.

Also, if you toast a Peep just right, the sugar coating melts and gets all crackly like the topping on creme brulee. Aside from novelty value, though, I didn’t care for the Peep s’mores. :wink:

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Fairly traditional here: traditional graham cracker but chocolate ones work (not chocolate covered), well toasted marshmallow patiently browned, plain chocolate for the first one and a reese’s peanut butter cup for the next because one isn’t enough for me. :smiley:

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All traditional ingredients (Honey Maid graham crackers, Jet Puf marshmallows & Hershey bars). I keep these in stock all summer.

Those giant marshmallows were rejected as completely impractical.

The only twist is imbedding a square of chocolate inside the marshmallow before grilling.

I like the lightly browned on all sides marshmallow.

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try Nutella on the graham cracker… or

here’s an adult way to enjoy the toasted marshmallows around the campfire…

http://www.viralforest.com/how-to-toasted-marshmallow-shot-glasses-with-baileys/

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Whatever you do, don’t burn your marshmallow. Ewwww! Completely disgusting! I seriously cannot watch someone do that or I’ll throw up. I don’t know how people put it on fire and then put it in their mouths.

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The charred part of the marshmallow is the ONLY part of a S’more that I even remotely like! :slight_smile: (Blame it on my anemia; it’s probably pica. I love to crunch ice, too.)

I do like a hot dog grilled on a stick over an open fire, though. :slight_smile:

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Note to self: when making s’mores with nottelling, make sure Pizzagirl is looking away. :slight_smile:

I like hotdogs on a stick and potatoes baked in hot ashes. :slight_smile:

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Recently our s’mores have at times moved over for “campfire cones” - take a sugar cone, fill it with mini marshmellows, choc chips/reeses pieces, bits of twix, - or whatever chocolate you like…wrap in foil and set or warm over a hot fire till melted. :slight_smile:

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I like traditional smores with graham cracker, one ghiradelli chocolate square, toasted marshmallow, and some fruit in it. Maybe chopped strawberries and/or blueberries.

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Wow–have never tried most of these variations–fruit, Reese’s or anything other than the traditional graham cracker, square of chocolate and roasted marshmallow.

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I like the marshmallow puffy & brown. It is a fine line to get it that far without burning it! What I really love is to then pull off the puffy “shell” and eat it, then retoast the glossy middle. Mmm…

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CT1417 can make my smore! I like them very traditional, graham cracker, hersheys chocolate and 2 lightly browned on all sides marshmallows and I’m going to try the extra square of chocolate inside the marshmallow next time I have the chance. My D doesn’t like toasted marshallows but likes to make them so she always makes me a perfect one. Yum! and one smore is definitely enough

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I like these variations. I have never once tried anything other than the classic. Great ideas!

Raclut’s particularly sounds good with the raspberries / blueberries.

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^^I just like fruity desserts. We serve a lot of fruit tarts and fruit flan in the summer.
My smores end up looking like fruit nachos.

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Dark chocolate is outstanding. It keeps the marshmallow from being too cloying.

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I don’t care for s’mores. I’ve only tried the traditional graham cracker, marshmallow and part of a chocolate bar. I like all three ingredients separately but not together. Maybe I’d like it better with dark chocolate or a peanut butter cup.
I like my marshmallows well done.

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How do you add chocolate into a marshmallow and then toast it over a fire? Very intriguing idea, but please give detailed instructions.

I am sipping my coffee as I sit and wake up, but still halfway dreaming about these s’mores. Can I eat s’mores for breakfast?

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Wow, some great variations. I’ve got to try some. I’ve always just had traditional graham cracker, marshmallow (toasted brown) and Hershey’s chocolate.

Roasted marshmallows are the best! I like to eat them golden brown. Sometimes peeling off and eating the crunchy brown part and then roasting the remainder of the marshmallow again to get another brown layer.

This weekend I was at an event where they had an interesting twist. At the dessert table they had “s’mores on a stick”. A marshmallow on a stick, dipped in chocolate and rolled in graham cracker crumbs. Not as good a s’mores (miss out on the melty marshmallow and chocolate) but still a neat dessert.

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@powercropper – I will have to ask my boys this evening for details…but I have seen them embed a piece of chocolate in the marshmallow before poking the skewer through the marshmallow. They use the regular marshmallows, not those newer giant ones.