Things Neniell Made: S'mores Cookie Bars

The internet has a lot of recipes and I have a small subset of these recipes bookmarked to make at some point in the future. For this post I wanted something simple to make that was also very unhealthy, so I looked through my bookmarked recipes. I rediscovered this one for S'mores cookie bars.

These are delicious. They're slightly too sweet for me, but that's okay. I will make these again at some point, but I'll use a good dark chocolate instead of the Hershey's milk chocolate. Dark chocolate just has a better flavor (in my opinion!).

This recipe comes from Une Gamine dans la Cuisine, which is one of the few food blogs I currently follow. She got this recipe from Baking Bites who got the recipe from...? I'm not sure. This recipe seems to be everywhere on the internet, so there is no saying where it originated. There are many slight variations as well. Here is mine.

S'mores Cookie Bars (Printer friendly PDF version)

1/2 C butter, unsalted, softened

1/4 C brown sugar, packed

1/2 C white sugar

1 egg

2 t vanilla

1 1/3 C flour

3/4 C graham cracker crumbs (or 7 full sheets, smashed to crumbs)

1 t baking powder

1/4 t salt

4 or 5 chocolate bars

1 1/2 C to 2 C marshmallow fluff

Stir together the flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Note: If you don't have graham cracker crumbs, take the sheets of graham crackers and place them in a large sealable plastic bag. Wrap a dish towel around the bag and use a rolling pin to crush the graham crackers into crumbs. Be sure to occasionally shake up the bag to help crush the crackers evenly!

Cream together the sugars and butter until fluffy.

Beat in the egg and vanilla.

Slowly stir in the flour mixture and mix until combined. The dough will be kind of dry looking.

Press half of the dough into the bottom of a well greased 8x8 inch pan. I used a 9x9 inch pan and it worked out okay.

Layer the chocolate bars on top of the cookie dough. Leave 1/4 to 1/2 inch of dough around the edges.

Spread the chocolate bars with marshmallow fluff. To make the marshmallow easier to spread, heat up the jar in a bowl of hot water while preparing the recipe up to this point. Stir the fluff before spreading.

Using the rest of the cookie dough, make a layer on top of the marshmallow fluff. I did this by pressing the dough into flat pieces with my hands and placing it on top. Press the dough down along the edges of the pan to make a seal.