S'mores Brownies - Gooey Delicious

Love S'mores? These irresistible S'mores Brownies combine a crunchy Graham cracker crust, a rich fudgy brownie and toasted marshmallows with chocolate on top. They're easy to make, wonderfully gooey and perfect for parties, bake sales or whenever you're craving a seriously chocolatey dessert!

About These S'mores Brownies

These S'mores brownies have the gooey, rich base of brownies plus the toasted marshmallow topping of S'mores all on a Graham cracker crust! This is a rich, layered chocolatey dessert for sweet tooths. With a crunchy Graham cracker base, a gooey, dense brownie and a fluffy toasted marshmallow top this is a delicious version of classic S'mores.

I love S'mores and there's nothing better with a fire going but this is if you want to make it extra.

Why This Recipe Works and Why You'll Love It!

• This is all about textures - it's all going on in one mouthful from the crisp Graham base, gooey centre and chewy marshmallow and toasted campfire feel!

• I use my favourite tried and tested brownie recipe for this that comes together really quickly, no heavy equipment needed for it, just a bowl and spatula!

• I'll also show you where to buy Graham Crackers outside of America as well as an alternative to Graham crackers if you find these hard to procure.

• This is for chocolate lovers! If you wished that S'mores had more chocolate, these S'mores brownies really up the chocolate component of S'mores.

Video How To Make S'mores Brownies

Video: S'mores Brownies Recipe

Ingredients For S'mores Brownies

Graham crackers - These can be hard to find outside of America but if you live near a Filipino store, you can easily find Graham crackers there. I have bought both whole Graham crackers and Graham crumbs at Filipino stores (this is where I bought my Graham crackers). In its place Nice, Scotch Finger, tea biscuits and Biscoff cookies also work well as they are rectangular and can be used to tile. Digestive biscuits are usually the sub for Graham crackers but they are round so they don't line up quite as well as rectangular cookies.

Chocolate chips - We're using dark chocolate chips for the batter and milk chocolate chips for the mix ins to give you the best of both worlds. Make sure to use chocolate bits or chips rather than melts as they contain cocoa butter while melts use vegetable fat. Cocoa butter tastes much better and did you know that candy melts are not technically chocolate as they don't contain cocoa butter?

Butter - Salted butter :)

Sugar - Caster or superfine sugar.

Vanilla - Vanilla bean paste, extract or essence works.

Eggs - Large eggs, at room temperature.

Cake flour - Cake flour can be found at the supermarket and it has a lower protein level than other flours so makes your baked goods softer.

Cocoa powder - Pure cocoa powder, Dutch processed.

Baking powder - To help lighten the cake (check it is still in date if you don't bake often).

Chocolate bar - I used a salted caramel bar but really use your favourite chocolate bar because you can never have too much chocolate!

Marshmallows - Use large vanilla marshmallows. Avoid using marshmallows that are covered in cornflour (like Pascalls).

Tips For Making S'mores Brownies

1 - Line the tray on the base and sides with separate pieces of parchment. After you bake the brownie you will remove the parchment pieces on the sides because they will burn under a grill.

2 - Heat the grill on medium and not high and make sure that the marshmallows are not too close to the grill element or they will burn too quickly. Watch these carefully to check that they are browning nicely. Do not walk away and do other things (I learned that the hard way!). :P

3 - Alternatively, a blowtorch also works!

4 - Place the chocolate pieces on the marshmallow when it is hot out of the grill.

I love S'mores and have made so many different types over the years from Ritz cracker S'mores, Oreo S'mores aka S'moreos and Stroopwafel S'mores. I've also made a no bake S'mores pie, a toasted marshmallow S'mores cake, S'mores ice cream sandwiches and S'mores rocky road!

S'mores Brownies Recipe

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Recipe Overview

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Serves: 9

Ingredients Needed

For Base

• 6 Graham crackers

For Brownies

• 250g/8.8oz dark chocolate chips
• 140g/4.9oz butter, cubed
• 180g/6oz caster or superfine sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 125g/4oz cake flour
• 60g/2oz cocoa powder
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 180g/6oz milk chocolate chips

For Topping

• 200g/7oz white marshmallows
• Pieces of chocolate bar

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1 PREP - Line the base and sides of a 20x20cm or 8x8inch square baking tin but cut the side parchment pieces as separate strips (so you can remove these before grilling). Preheat oven to 160C/320F fan forced or 180C/350F conventional. Line the tray with Graham crackers (6 Graham crackers) - they should fit snugly.

Step 2 BROWNIE - Melt the dark chocolate (250g/8.8oz dark chocolate chips) and butter (140g/4.9oz butter) in a microwave on 70% power in 60 second increments until melted. Mix to create a smooth mixture. Mix in sugar (180g/6oz caster or superfine sugar) and vanilla (2 teaspoons vanilla), then add the eggs (2 eggs) and stir to mix. Don't worry if it is grainy. Sift in the cake flour (125g/4oz cake flour), cocoa powder (60g/2oz cocoa powder) and baking powder (1.5 teaspoons baking powder) and mix to combine but do not overmix. Stir in the milk chocolate chips (180g/6oz milk chocolate chips) and then spread this mixture over the Graham crackers. Bake for 30 minutes or until set. Cool for 20 minutes to set. Remove the parchment side pieces.

Step 3 MARSHMALLOW - Place marshmallows (200g/7oz white marshmallows) on top (if using super large ones, cut these in half). Preheat grill to medium and make sure that the top of the marshmallows won't touch the grill. Gently grill the marshmallows, this should take between 2-5 minutes. You can also do this using a culinary blowtorch. Place chocolate on top of marshmallow while still warm and press down.

Personal Note

These brownies while simple in concept presented problems with the marshmallow component. I know that people love easy recipes so I decided to design these with bought marshmallows instead of making my own.

And that's where the problems started.

I had one big bag of marshmallows but half were white and half were pink which is a pet hate of mine because I really don't like pink marshmallows. And there simply weren't enough white ones to cover the brownie tin. I was annoyed by this so I took off my apron and drove to the shop and looked for another packet but they didn't have that same brand.

I ended up buying 3 packs of Pascalls marshmallows. These are not my favourite marshmallow but they were 50% off and I figured that I would need 3 packets to get enough white marshmallows so instead of $15 worth of marshmallows, it was $7.50.

When I got home I knew I had made a terrible mistake. These marshmallows are absolutely caked in cornflour so they have little to no flavour and they toasted up horribly. It was mainly because the top was all cornflour.

"I have to go to the shops again!" I said to Mr NQN grabbing my keys. I bought two packs of white vanilla marshmallows not coated in tonnes of cornflour. These toasted up nicely but I will have to say that buying so many packets marshmallows would have not been what I wanted to spend my money on and I should have perhaps made my own haha!

So tell me Dear Reader, what are your feelings on pink marshmallows? And do you also like S'mores?