S'more Cookies

These are fantastic and unique cookie! I love the graham cracker crust and chewy marshmallows inside the cookie dough and then when you bite down into that chunk of chocolate...heavenly. In the first batch I made the graham cracker burnt, but I really liked it, tasted like a burnt s'more, which i happen to love. The second batch I used a little less cookie dough and that seemed to do the trick. 

Make some today! 

• 11 Tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup mini marshmallows
• 3 regular sized Hershey's bars, broken into pieces (I used the fun size Hershey's)
• 1-2 packages graham crackers, broken into squares

In your stand up mixer, cream the butter with the sugars until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt and combine on low. Fold in the chocolate chips and marshmallows. Chill dough in fridge for at least 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350. Line your cookie sheets with parchment papers (marshmallows will stick to your cookie sheet so don't skip this step!) Lay out your graham crackers side by side on the pans as close as possible, they should be touching. Place a scoop of cookie dough (about a tablespoon full). Bake for 5 minutes and then remove from oven and top each cookie with a Hershey's. Bake for another 6-8 minutes or until the cookies edges begin to turn a golden brown. Remove to wire rack to cool. To cut, make sure cookies are completely cook and cut down the seam of the graham cracker squares.

Makes about 2 dozen.

Recipe from:

http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2011/06/smores-cookies.html

S'more Cupcakes

These are the perfect summer treat, and bonus, you get to use a torch.

• Graham Cracker Layer:
• 1 ½ cups crushed graham crackers
• ⅓ cup butter, melted
• 3 Tablespoons sugar
• Chocolate Cupcake layer:
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ¾ cup boiling water
• Toasted Marshmallow topping:
• 8 egg whites
• 2 cups sugar
• ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Hershey Chocolate pieces 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line your muffin tin with 2 dozen liners. Pulse graham crackers in your food processor, add butter and sugar and mix until well mixed. Press 1 full Tablespoon onto the bottom of each liner. Put to the side. Make the batter: in your stand up mixer add all the dry ingredients and whisk well. In a separate bowl mix together the eggs, buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until incorporated. Slowly add in the hot water. Mix just until incorporated, do not overmix. Scoop unto graham cracker layer until about ⅔ full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until cooked through and bounce back when lightly touched. Place one bar of hershey chocolate in the middle of each hot cupcake. Let melt and spread around chocolate. Place cupcakes to the side and finish cooling. Make the marshmallow topping: put the egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar in the heat proof bowl of your mixer. Place the bowl over a saucepan with boiling water. Whisk constantly until sugar dissolves and is warm to touch. Do not let it get hot. Place bowl back on your stand up mixer and using the whisk attachment, whisk, starting on low and then gradually going up to high. Mix for 8-10 minutes. Or until it forms stiff peaks. Add vanilla and mix until incorporated. Place marshmallow frosting into your bag fitted with a 1M tip and pipe onto your cooled cupcakes. Torch and place a hershey chocolate piece into each cupcake. 

Makes about 2 dozen cupcakes.

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