I ate a lot of s’mores as a kid. It all started at our family’s annual summer vacations to Kentucky Lake. Later, at home, my sister and I would make them regularly in the microwave. Authentic “camp” flavor doesn’t happen in the microwave, but it was fun to watch them rise and (nearly!) explode.
It probably comes as no surprise that hershey bars and jet puffed marshmallows aren’t quite my thing anymore. So, last weekend, Jack and I headed to Whole Foods where we gathered ideas and ingredients to make these fancy pants gourmet s’mores.
Most of our inspiration came from the fancy chocolate aisle. I could lose myself in that section all day… So. many. pretty. packages. Jack waited impatiently while I decided which bars looked prettiest together which flavors would go best together.
Truth be told, we tried to make our own homemade vegan marshmallows. It was a big fail, but these vegan homemade-like ones by Sweet and Sara are awesome. (Find them in the refrigerated section).
To keep things somewhat classic, we used regular (365 brand) graham crackers. We also stocked up on fruit and a jar of Jeni’s Salty Caramel Sauce. (I never said these were going to be healthy s’mores!).
Here are the combos we came up with! They were all delicious but I think our favorite was the one with strawberries & white chocolate (made with the Divine White Chocolate & Strawberries bar, pictured above).
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fancy s’mores
- graham crackers
- marshmallows
- variety of fancy chocolates
- fruit such as: bananas, strawberries, blackberries
- salted caramel
- almond butter
- roast marshmallows over a campfire (or your gas stove).
- Assemble s'mores.
- Smush and eat!
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Well, it’s nothing original, but I love to make S’mores with two chocolate chip cookies smothered with peanut butter with dark chocolate and marshmallows in between.
I packaged the ingredients for smores in a cellophane bag tied with ribbon for my Valentines’ treats for my girlfriends – what fun !
i’ve been thinking a lot on smores lately, and these popped up in my feedly! so. good. salted caramel smores YES. i’m attempting to make some gf graham crackers today to smores it up so wish me luck! awesome that you used vegan marshmallows! i’ve got the dandies variety, but those look waaaaay cooler.
Ohhh, I LOVE s’mores! I recently tried peanut butter on one and it was amazing. These look even better!
Oh my goodness, s’mores are my favorite! They have been my birthday cake of choice the last two years in a row – and these sound awesome. I make my own homemade graham crackers HUGE for giant s’mores, paired with Dandie’s marshmallows and half a bar of popped quinoa dark chocolate 🙂 but my “fancy” s’more contribution to this post would have to be something I’ve been dreaming about: two soft peanutbutter cookies with the classic roasted marshmallow and chocolate bar filling!
S’mores with raspberry jam, crushed almonds, dark chocolate and marshmallow!
Smores with coconut cream and dark, dark chocolate would knock me off my feet!
I think this sounds really good:
A graham cracker, square of fancy chocolate, marshmallow and a bit of vanilla ice cream. I would freeze it for about 30 minutes before eating. Sounds so good!
After adding peanut butter to the classic s’more several years ago, I’ve never turned back. Keeping with that theme, I’d step it up a notch and go with a golden roasted mallow + dark chocolate & sea salt bar + Justin’s maple almond butter. Drooling now..
I would dip the graham crackers first in melted dark chocolate or salted caramel. Then, add just about anything! Crushed mint, a dab of honey, and one of the vegan marshmallows would be divine sandwiched between two chocolate covered crackers. Yum.
My idea is actually a sweet and savory smore! Marshmallow with salted brie cheese, caramel and thinly sliced green apple.
I would do raspberries and darkdark chocolate!
My fancy smores would be cinnamon grahams, chocolate brownie coconut butter and a little peanut butter with a vanilla marshmallow!
I would use homemade graham crackers toasted coconut chocolate homemade caramel & homemade toasted marshmallows. All smooshed together on a crisp graham cracker yum!!!
I’m thinking roasted peaches (roasted over the campfire of course) marshmallow, and white chocolate. I think they would be amazing on graham crackers or you could do them on some shortbread cookies!! YUMMM!
My fancy s’mores would have dark chocolate, peanut butter, bananas, strawberries and homemade marshmallows. yuuuumm.
I’d love a combo of graham crackers, dark chocolate, toasted coconut, marshmallows and peanut butter. Yum!
I love the peanut butter, carmelized bananas, dark chocolate and marshmallow combo!
Um yum. To all of this. I am an Idahoan so I’d love to taste a huckleberry white chocolate s’more. Like now. This needs to happen.
Two of my favorite flavors are banana and mocha mmmm! My dream s’more would be a graham cracker, mocha dark chocolate, honey roasted banana slices, golden marshmallow, & some crunchy sunbutter – YUM 🙂