Happy National S'mores Day! Boy, do I have a ooey, gooey delicious treat to share with you today – S'mores Cookie Bars. If you love 7 Layer Magic Bars and S'mores, then you will adore these. Much like a real S'more, they have sticky marshmallows, creamy chocolate and a graham cracker crust but I also think you will love my two secret ingredients…white chocolate chips and Golden Grahams cereal. The white chocolate helps to balance the milk and semi chocolate and the Golden Grahams provide a nice crunch, similar to the nuts used in traditional 7 Layer Magic Bars.
First, you will want to crush the graham crackers into fine crumbs. I use my food processor but you could also use a rolling pin and crush them by hand in a zip top bag. Then add the melted butter and thoroughly blend it into the graham cracker crumbs. Now you are ready to pour the graham cracker crust mixture into a 9 x 13 pan that has been lined with parchment paper. (A little trick for using parchment paper…I like to use cooking spray and spray the pan so that the parchment paper sticks to the pan and doesn't move around on me.)
Pat the crust firmly into the pan with your hands and then evenly pour the 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk over the crust. Next, sprinkle on half of the semi sweet chocolate chips (1\2 cup), half of the white chips (around 2/3 cup), and half of the slightly broken up Golden Grahams cereal (3/4 cup). Follow this by spreading on ALL of the marshmallows (4 cups).
Tip – To break up the Golden Grahams cereal, put it in a sandwich size zip top bag and lightly break it up with your hands.
On top of the marshmallows, you will sprinkle on the remaining semi sweet chocolate chips, white chips and broken up Golden Grahams. Then put it in a 350 degree oven for 30 min or until marshmallows are golden brown.
As soon as you take the cookies out of the oven, break up 2 Hershey Chocolate Bars into bite sized pieces and set them evenly on the top of the cookies. They will melt into the cookies. While you could eliminate this step if you don't have the chocolate bars on hand, I think the Hershey chocolate pieces really make these cookies LOOK like “S'mores”!
Because these bars are so sticky and delicious, I recommend refrigerating them for several hours until they are set. This will make it much easier to remove the parchment paper from the pan and to cut and serve them. However, if a warm S'more is what you're looking for you can always eat them directly out of the pan with a fork, no judgment here!
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