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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This might be un-fancy but I want to try a squished, melty Rolo between the graham crackers along with the toasted marshmallow.
These are fantastic! I think I would like the strawberry and white chocolate the best too, but that Blackberry Smash looks so awesome. In fact, I’ll take one of each. Since I’m cooking through the national food holidays on my blog, I made my National S’mores Day (in preparation for August 10th) over the weekend. It’s basically just a s’mores dip with melted chocolate and browned marshmallows over top.
Knowing about Sweet and Sara marshmallows could be dangerous. Crystallized ginger with almond butter might be another tasty combination.
I can’t stop thinking about the Goat Cheese + Thyme + Honey ice cream I had at Lick yesterday, so maybe I’d smear some goat cheese on a graham, drizzle some honey, and add a square of extra dark chocolate for my s’more
I was just thinking brie with the blackberries and thyme!
Peanut butter, marshmallow, and nutella.
I love the fancy chocolate idea and the fruit! I also like to dip mine in melted chocolate on top of the chocolate inside 🙂 And flavored marshmallows would be a great idea, too!
would love to try with a mixture of chocolate (dark and milk)!! or cookie butter!
I’d love to try roasting soft caramels over the fire, then sandwiching them with some salted dark chocolate between graham crackers
That last picture is divine! Just got back from camping and our favorites were marshmallows + chocolate + peanut butter, but also marshmallows + PB + jelly! Going to have to try the smackberry or salted caramel! <3
I have some left over dulce de leche from a world cup party–throwing that into the traditional mix sounds pretty dreamy.
I think it’d be fun to have a s’more with dark chocolate, almonds, marshmallow and raspberry.
Great tip about the vegan marshmallows. Thanks for sharing!!
I’d love to try roasting soft caramels over the fire, then sandwiching them with some salted dark chocolate between graham crackers
Dark chocolate, pretzels, marshmallows and some caramel sauce, delicious!
Dark chocolate, marshmallow. and a roasted hot pepper
I’m a fan of dried fruit and dark chocolate. So dates and walnuts and dark chocolate on a smore sounds heavenly!
Mmm, maybe.Salted Dark Chocolate and black raspberries and marshmallow on thin almond cookies. Mmmmm.
I think graham crackers with homemade marshmallows, caramel, pecans, and dark chocolate would be delicious!
I tried to make homemade vegan marshmallows too and they were a FAIL! Ugh! My fancy smores involves peanut butter cups..yum!
The fanciest I’ve gone with s’mores is when I made my own graham crackers, chocolate, and different flavoured marshmallows. That was pretty awesome. I love using mint marshmallows with s’mores, since one of my favourite things ever is mint-chocolate!
Smores with Oreos!!!!!!!!
I love making Chocolove Orange Peel in Dark Chocolate s’more’s! I also love a peanut butter darkchocolate s’more. We make dark chocolate s’mores on our gas stove — love it every time.