S'mores Indoors
One of the best things about living in an historic neighborhood with beautiful, traditional, old houses is the fireplaces that my friends and I have at our disposal. Nothing says cozy like a crackling fire on a day when it was dark by 5pm. Even better, though, is bringing summer and winter together in an almost impossibly delicious hands-on dessert: s'mores indoors. The name was coined by my friend Rob, but it finally has grown up a little bit over the last week.
Getting together for the hockey game last week with the carbonnade was great, but we needed to wash down all the manly stew with a good winter dessert. Leftover Hershey's Kisses from Halloween was the only chocolate available, which meant we needed to be creative about our s'more construction. The answer turned out to be what you see here. We toasted the marshmallows until they were golden brown and mushy all the way through. We upended them onto graham crackers and pushed the kisses down into the soft centers of the marshmallows. We left them to sit for about 30 seconds before eating them and the chocolate, warmed from their little marshmallow sweaters, was completely melted.
Who knew campfire food could be so sophisticated? Then again, who knew dinner party dessert could be so fun?
6 comments:
Hol,
What a hot blog! Smores Indoors sound great and rather like a Rob-ism:)
Hope you had a great T-day. Missed you here in MN.
How am I not suprised that Rob coined that one? Tell him that if the law world kicks him out on his hinder, the ad world might take him in. Maybe. Can't wait to get campfire-y with you guys at Christmas. Meanwhile, I'm trying this out with a Bic.
Holly!! Your site is beautiful and your food looks so yummy! It might even tempt me to cook. The s'mores are right up my alley :)
congratulations!!!
xoxo
How I wish I had a fire place....
When your flat doesn't have a fireplace, you'r stuck doing s'mores indoors over the gas stove -- or with that handy butane plumber's torch in the basement...good times.
From the mouth of the Official World's Biggest S'mores Fan: love it! I've had many stovetop s'mores (not many fireplaces here in New Mexico, and I have s'mores cravings much more often than I go camping)...and I've never thought of using a Hershey's kiss this way. I'm kissing a s'more tonight...
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