Today’s guest post is from Natalie at Life {Made} Simple. I wish I could tell you how delicious these bars are, but I’m planning on making them for the first time on the 4th of July. I’m sure they’re going to be a big hit with my family!

I came across this recipe one afternoon and immediately knew I had to make it. Something about baked s’mores just intrigued me. Also s’mores bring back a lot of good memories for me… like bonfires in the canyon with roommates and friends. So I made a few alterations to the original recipe and voilà! They’re kind of amazing little things. When I was scooping the dough onto the graham crackers, I just wanted to eat a handful of it, and when they were baking it made our entire house smell hea-ven-ly. The process does require a little bit of time and certainly more work than standard cookie bars do, but I think you’ll agree that the results are well worth it!
~Natalie
Graham Cracker S’mores Bars
From: Life {Made} Simple
Ingredients
11 tbsp. butter, room temperature
½ c. granulated sugar
1 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1½ tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. cinnamon
2½ c. flour
1¼ c. mini marshmallows
1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chunks (Nestlé Toll House)
¾ c. mini semi-sweet morsels (Nestlé Toll House)
3 Hershey’s bars, broken into squares (I used 1 regular, 2 dark)
2 sleeves honey graham crackers, broken into squares
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars (1-2 minutes).
3. In a medium bowl, combine flour, soda, salt and cinnamon. Whisk to combine.
4. Add egg one at a time to butter mixture, gently beating after each addition. Add vanilla and mix.
5. Slowly begin to add flour mixture to the butter mixture, keeping the mixing speed low while doing so.
Once combined, remove and fold in 1c. mini marshmallows, mini morsels and chocolate chunks. Chill mixture in refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
6. While mixture is chilling, prepare baking sheet (standard size, with sides) by lining it with parchment paper. Take graham crackers and break in half. Lay out onto sheet, until it is completely full (they should cover the entire sheet and cookies should be tight and touching- see picture).
7. Remove chilled dough from refrigerator and using a standard cookie scoop, place one ball of dough onto each cracker. use remaining dough to fill in the gaps. It may look like a lot of dough, but it all needs to run together in order to cover the entire sheet.
8. Place into oven for 6 minutes, then remove and press Hershey’s bar pieces into top along with remaining 1/4 c. marshmallows (just fill in the gaps with them a little). Return to oven and bake for 5-7 minutes or until dough and marshmallows being to brown, making sure the dough is cooked through. Remove from oven and place sheet on a wire rack to cool. Once it is sufficiently cooled (20 minutes or so) place into refrigerator to solidify. Remove after an additional 20 minutes and cut into squares.
Adapted from Always With Butter | Makes approximately 30 bars
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These look delicious. I Stumbled and Pinned. I agree - a great treat for 4th of July! :)
Irresistible! I’m pinning and making soon. Just bought the candy bars today! Thanks to both of you for sharing this delectable treat.
Just made these for the 4th. My husband approves, and says they will be “destroyed” when we get up north. Thanks for the recipe.
http://instagram.com/p/MmAoMSojgU/
Glad you liked them, Jodie! Thanks for sharing your photo!
Printed this. My son will go crazy over these. : )
Jane,
Yum! This look extraordinary! I can’t wait to try them!
Mary
On Behalf of Chinet
Hope you like them, Mary!
I’m glad that I stumbled across this recipe. I am making these for my boys birthday party this weekend…..although, I plan on making them the night before, so I don’t know how many will actually be left for the party.
These are delicious. I’ve made them twice in two weeks. Eveyone loves them!
Glad everyone liked them, Anita! :)
I haven’t tried them yet…they do look great! But, what do you mean about filling in the gaps? Looks like there are a lot of areas to fill in.
Chris,
I think she means…fill in the gaps where there’s no dough on the crackers so all of your dough and marshmallows gets used up.