Making s'more cookies

I love s'mores, but we don't often have a fire pit and don't have a working fireplace to do them often. 

We found a way to make yummy smores in cookie form!

 First, you make the graham cookie base.  Then layer on halved marshmallows and bake for a bit.

 The marshmallows get brown and toasty.

 Then add on the chocolate and bake to slightly melt the chocolate.

These cookies were a HUGE hit with the kids!

 I think they would be awesome with peanut butter (which is what the recipe called for), but we substituted JIF almond butter because of C's peanut allergy, and they came out just fine.

S’more Cookies

Makes 4 dozen

Ingredients

1 cup flour

¾ cup fine graham cracker crumbs

½ tsp baking soda

¼  tsp salt

1 stick butter, softened

½ cup creamy peanut butter OR JIF brand almond butter

½ cup sugar

½ cup brown sugar, packed

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

24 large marshmallows, halved

8 hershey chocolate bars, broken into their small rectangular pieces

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.  Cream butter, peanut butter/almond butter, sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl.  Mix with an electric mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes.  Beat in egg and vanilla until incorporated.

Scoop dough (about 1 Tbsp worth) onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Be careful not to make the scoops too big.  Bake cookies 5 – 6 minutes.

Take out and put marshmallows on top of each cookie. Bake for 2 more minutes.  Turn the oven to broil and bake for 60 – 90 seconds, CAREFULLY watching so they don’t burn because they go from being white to burnt VERY quickly. .  Take out and turn oven back to 375. (This is important!)  Put 1 – 2 mini rectangles of chocolate on top of the marshmallows.  Bake 2 – 3 more minutes to finish off cookie.  Let set on the pan for a good 4 -5  minutes .  (If you try to remove them right away, the center is too soft and will break.)