S'more cookies-revisited

Brad's clinic loves hosting potlucks. The great thing about these potlucks is that everyone is invited, from not only the PTs, PTAs, other clinicians/office staff but the patients as well. Earlier this week, Brad's Clinic Director approached him about throwing us a "baby shower" of sorts which includes the ever popular potluck :o)

Brad asked me if I would be able to make some cookies and after considering what sounded good to me, I decided on s'more cookies. I have made s'more cookies before but I didn't have any Hershey bars here so I started to think about how else I could possibly put these together.

And then I came across a variation of cookie that looked perfect. The base was a chocolate chip cookie, then topped with marshmallow and melted chocolate. Now that I could do based on my pantry. However, what about the graham cracker component? So I opted to make the Chocolate Chip Cookie portion of the previous recipe I had tried since it contained Graham Crackers. However, I also noticed that this made a much softer dough...so I added an extra 1/4 cup of both flour and graham in hopes of thickening it up a bit. It worked somewhat but the cookies, even after baked were pretty soft. I think I'll still tweak it a bit in the future but for now, I'll share what I did.

The consensus was a rich yet delicious gooey treat that everyone loved. The few that I didn't take to the clinic, I have been attempting to restrain myself from eating them all in one sitting. That wouldn't really help with this pregnancy weight gain :op. So yes, a "must do". Just a word of warning...marshmallows are a sticky mess. So be sure to try to keep the marshmallow on the cookie and not overflow onto the sheet. Though my pizza stones were easy to clean (I made sure to wash them right away), it was a mess trying to get the cookies off the stone that had the marshmallow overflow and to try to get those off of the wax paper I put them on (thinking that would help..) was even worse. But still, oh. so. good.

sorry, it's the only picture I have!

S'more Cookies, revisited
adapted and mashed recipe from Baked Perfection and Dear Lillie

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (I used an additional 1/4 cup)
1 cup graham cracker crumbs (I used an additional 1/4 cup)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 dash of cinnamon

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 cups miniature chocolate chips

Marshmallows

Chocolate chips

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking soda, salt, and dash of cinnamon. In a second larger bowl beat together the butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. 
• Slowly beat in the flour mixture until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 8 minutes, and remove from the oven. 
• Cut marshmallows in half while cookies are in oven. When the cookies are done, place marshmallow halves on top, sticky side down, and return to oven for 2 minutes.
• While cookies are back in, pour chocolate bits into a microwave-safe container and melt for thirty seconds and stir, then melt for 15 and stir and repeat until they are completely melted.
• Remove cookies from oven, press the now-puffy marshmallows down with a finger or fork, and spoon or drizzle melted chocolate onto the tops.
• Let cool, then remove to a cookie rack until completely cooled