Chocolate Chip Smores Bars Recipe

Instead of quilts, today I’m sharing one of our favorite summer desserts.  It’s also one of the easiest.  My daughter and I started making them last summer, and we take them to potlucks all season long.  It’s the first pan to empty every time!  These chocolate chip smores bars are perfect for a summer night when everyone would love smores but there’s no fire.

And they’re the perfect amount of gooey, with the toasted marshmallow, melted chocolate, and cookie dough, plus the crunch of a graham cracker on the bottom.  Fun, and easy to make, these chocolate chip smores bars will be a hit!

To make these bars, you will need:

1 box graham crackers

1 bag large marshmallows

1 large symphony chocolate bar (the giant size)

ingredients for your favorite chocolate chip cookie dough, or see below for the recipe I use.  (scroll to bottom of post for full recipe)

Start by spraying the bottom of an 11 x 17 inch cookie sheet with nonstick spray.  Then break your graham crackers into halves and cover the bottom of the pan.  Break the chocolate into pieces and place one on every cracker.

Using a pair of scissors, cut each marshmallow in half.  If you don’t do this, they tip over and don’t stay in place!  Place the two halves cut side down on top of the chocolate and crackers.

Mix up a batch of cookie dough, and then with your hands just drop little pieces of it all over the pan.

Then you bake it and the magic happens.  When it’s golden brown, and the marshmallows are melted and toasty on top, pull it out of the oven.

Allow to cool completely before cutting into bars.  Serve and enjoy!  Now, please excuse me while I go make some.

Chocolate Chip Smores Bars Recipe

Ingredients:

1 box graham crackers

1 bag large marshmallows

I giant sized Symphony bar (or you can use several of the small Hershey’s chocolate bars, but they don’t melt as well.)

for the cookie dough:

1 cup butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 tsp baking soda

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2.5 cups flour

12 oz chocolate chips

 

Instructions:

Soften butter, then beat in large mixing bowl until creamy.  Add sugar, brown sugar and baking soda.  Beat till combined.  Add eggs and vanilla and beat till combined.  Add flour and mix until combined.  Stir in chocolate chips.

 

Assembly:

Spray large 11 x 17 baking baking pan with nonstick spray.  Break graham crackers in half and cover bottom of pan.  Break chocolate and place 1-2 pieces on each cracker.  Cut 1 marshmallow in half for each graham cracker half, and place cut side down on top of chocolate and crackers.

With your hands, gently place small handfuls or chunks of cookie dough all around the pan on top of and in between marshmallows.

Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes, watching for the dough and marshmallows to begin turning golden brown on top.

Remove from oven, cool completely, cut and serve!