My sister had informed me of this wonderful annual tradition of hers, a cookie bake off. Her and her 4-children would compete on the best cookie recipe. As I pondered and pondered this, I thought why not. Create my own creative cookie recipe. After all this is what this blog is about....savory creations that happen in the home or out about in the world.I have an absolute love for S'mores, but sadly it is a seasonal treat, not unless you are like me and become the evil mad scientist in the house. I truly don't recommend trying the evil mad scientist one by yourself, best to have two or more people. I have decided to try and create my version of a S'more smacked right in to your cookie, Hellz Writer style. Granted it may not be an award winning at the Hensarling annual cookie bake off, but it sure can win smiles.
This will be a 3-part cookie recipe.
~Hellz Writer's S'more Cookie Recipe~
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs or 7-graham crackers
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 bag Marshmallows
- Baking spray
- 2 large bowls
- Whisk
- Measuring spoons
- Measuring cups
- Glass cup
- Spatula
- Baking sheets
- Melon baller {{you can buy one at Wal~Mart or your local 99 cents store}}
Directions:
Part 1: Prep
- Grab all your things that are needed and place them on a clean surface.
- Grab your 7 whole graham cracker slices and place them in a large bowl. Grab a cup with a flat bottom, I used a glass cup and grind the graham crackers till there is no cracker chunks
- Heat oven at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C), best to have it nice and hot.
- Depending on the marshmallow, large ones need to be cut in half
- Combine flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon in to the graham cracker flour and use a whisk to blend it all together
- In the second bowl, place the softened butter in it {{I cheated and heated till it was liquid}}
- Add sugars, using whisk to stir together .
- Blend in egg and vanilla.
- Add combined egg mixture into graham cracker mixture.
- **Optional** You may add nuts or chocolate pieces at your discretion
Part 3: Baking
- Grab your cookie sheets and spray them
- Wash your hands again, please
- Now I have read recipes where they tell you to use a teaspoon and yet they seem to never come out looking like the recipe. Grab the melon baller that you bought and grab doughfuls, but enough to make balls.
- I would roll the dough in to balls and place them on the cookie sheet. 12-balls per sheet, which could equal to 3-inches apart.
- Bake in oven 8 minutes
- **Optional** For single S'mores cookie~*~
In the middle of bake time...ie 4 minutes, press 2 or 3 chocolate pieces on top of cookie.
Place back in oven for remainder of the 4-minutes.
Remove and place the cut marshmallow on top
Place back in oven till top of marshmallow is golden. - Remove out of oven and allow to cool on baking sheet.
- Flip the cookies over and find the right matches
- In the picture shown, I used small marshmallows. Use anywhere from 2 to 4 marshmallows depending on the cookie size.
- Place chocolate in the middle.
- Put back in the oven for about a minute or two.
- Remove from oven and place tops on.
- Squish the tops down, Place them back in oven for about another 2 minutes.
- Cool on sheet about 3 minute and remove to wire racks.
Yes there looks like a lot of steps but the fact is, all recipes have a lot of steps that people don't seem to tell you. I even went above and beyond and decided to make a pretty S'more cookies and cheated by buying premade chocolate and vanilla drizzle. Of course I did make some chocolate and vanilla drizzled cookies. Hope you enjoy making these cookies. They were a lot of fun for me to make. Guinea pig the roommates I live with and they enjoyed all 4 versions of this yummy cookie.
~Irenia Guajardo~
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