Double Chocolate Indoor S’mores
Here’s a peek inside my crazy brain.
Sometimes… I wonder how many years I’ll get to live. Not in a morbid way. Come on. I’m totally into living. I just wonder. It’s healthy.
I wonder how many years I get to live… and what the sum total of that living will look like.
How many people I’ll love. How many people loved me. How many songs I’ll sing loudly and badly. How many prayers say. How many communions I’ll take. How many sunburns I’ll endure. How many gardens I’ll plant and kill. How many cats I’ll have. How many pairs of jeans I’ll buy. How many miles I’ll bike ride. How many bottles of wine I’ll drink. How many tears I’ll shed. How many slow dances I’ll have. How many letters I’ll write. How many people I’ll smile at. How many times I’ll apologize. How many cookies I’ll bake. How many first kisses I’ll have. How many kids I’ll have. How many photos I’ll take. How many flowers I’ll smell. How many countries I’ll visit. How much life I absorb.
Mostly though… I just really like lists, and cookies, and chocolate, and toasted marshmallow.
This recipe is a story about chocolate on chocolate on toasted marshmallow.
It’s a summer love story… really.
How many love stories am I going to have in the sum total of my life?
This particular love story starts with cocoa powder and butter.
Cocoa and butter get crumbly and sandy and look like dirt.
Go with it. It’s definitely love.
It’s working out.
Wait. Let me take it back a minute to ensure that you know what I’m really talking about here.
We’re making S’mores. Indoor. With homemade chocolate wafers and melted chocolate.
Pure love.
These chocolate wafers are some of the best, and easiest cookies I’ve ever made.
The dough comes together in a snap, and gets rolled out immediately, between two sheets of parchment paper.
No refrigerating. No flour mess.
Bust out the ruler to make things right.
This is incredibly satisfying.
Slicing is also incredibly satisfying for my crazy brain.
And this is how these little darlings bake up. Crisp and softly square.
Crisp chocolate cookies from the oven. Melted chocolate and stove top toasted marshmallows.
It’s summer love. Get it while the livin’ is good!
Double Chocolate Indoor S’mores
makes about 20 2-inch square sandwich cookies
cookie recipe from: The Essence of Chocolate
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cup plus 3 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 cup plus 1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoons salt
15 Tablespoons (7 1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, but into 3/4-inch cubes, at room temperature (this is important)
Position the racks in the lower and upper thirds of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and mix on low speed. With the mixer running, add the butter a few pieces at a time. The mixture will have a sandy texture at first and then will begin to form peddle-size pieces. As soon as the dough starts to come together, stop the mixer. Make sure all the butter is well incorporated. If there are large butter pockets, mix for a few seconds more.
Form and roll the dough straight from the mixer. The dough becomes hard to work with if chilled.
Transfer the dough to a board, and knead together. Use the heel of your hand or a pastry scraper to shape the dough into a block about 5 by 7 inches. Cut the block into two pieces.
One at a time, roll each block of dough between two pieces of parchment or waxed paper until about 1/8-inch thick. Use a ruler and pizza slicer to slice the dough into 2×2-inch squares. Place 1/2 to 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheet. Form excess scraps into the second half of dough, and roll again.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through the baking. Remove from the oven and cool on the sheets for 2 to 5 minutes. They’ll be too soft to move straight from the oven. Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and let cool completely.
Once cookies are baked and cooled, melt chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave for 30-45 seconds on 50% power. Toast marshmallows over the stove flame, or on a cookie sheet under the oven broiler. If you use the broiler, keep a close eye on the marshmallows. They toast very quickly.
Spread melted chocolate on underside of cookie. Top with warm, toasted marshmallow, and top with another cookie. Eat em up!
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I really adore your blog! Each time I read one of your food-posts, I feel like eating and cooking and eating more =)
One of the things I really miss with having to be gluten free is ice cream sandwiches. And smore’s. I make a reverse smore for myself when we are camping with chocolate between two marshmallows, but is not quite the same. I’m thinking I can convert this recipe to gf and if it works, it will be good for smores AND ice cream sandwiches. Score!
Can’t wait to try these cookies! For a peanut butter twist, maybe dark chocolate reese’s pb cups for melted chocolate?
*drool* I need to try this recipe soon!
This is so a ‘why didn’t I think of that’ moment. Love the double chocolate with the cookies/crackers!
Mmm, I love making homemade graham crackers but chocolate ones sound(and look) awesome! And I love the indoor smores. Not that I don’t like outdoor ones too :D
Listen…sometime over the winter…I got into the horrible habit of stacking as many mini marshmallows as I could fit on a skewer & holding it over the stove & eating them…you will NOT take me back down that slippery slope…
Oh good god this is absolute heaven!!!
whoa. is that even legal?? that’s wicked goodness right there.
I need that marshmallow in my mouth right now…. pleeeaaaseeeeeeeee… you must now, actually I guess you know you’re a beautiful person, and I’m not talking just about your appearance….I love to read every line you write… they make me smile, or cry, …or even think!!! ….who would have guessed!! not me!!!! lol
A huge pile of kisses from Spain ;P
You’ll never believe it but I was just checking J to the B for just such a recipe! My mother in law gave me a s’mores kit for my bday and the weather in Oregon hasn’t been nice enough to roast them outside. Here I am DESPERATELY searching for an indoor s’more recipe and you have the answer. Yum can’t wait to try them!
YUM!
I wonder how many of these I would leave on the tray if they were in front of me right now… (zero).
I’m pretty sure I’m going to live until I’m 120. And I will make these cookies at least 80 times. I like optimistic predictions.
I want to come over for a s’mores party! Can you ever have too much chocolate? I don’t think so! What a fab idea!
I need to make this happen sometime soon. It look delish!
What a great idea to use the ruler to make even cookies, I never thought of this one :) You cookies look gorgeous – so crisp, so chocolatey and so real!
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yummieeeeee this looks very nice!
these look crazy delicious. CRAZY!!!
I’m contemplating to use coconut oil (or vegetable) instead of the butter.
Would this come out okay?
Just one thing to say: NHAMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
Damn my electric stove! Extreme sad face.
Yes! This looks amazing. I wonder if these cookies would work well in making homemade Oreos? I’ve decided that is my next project.
Also: My favorite indoor s’mores toasting apparatus is the brulee torch. That’s one of those kitchen toys that my husband loves because it’s very masculine, like something you’d find in the tool shed. Same with the stand mixer, because it has a gear shift.
You always have the most fun recipes! My family has many fond memories of making s’mores over a campfire. I can’t wait to try this recipe next time my grown children come to visit.
This seems to taste like heaven! I will make them this afternoon!
I love the s’mores, but I love even more your thoughts written prior about how many? of things you will live and experience…apparently we have very similar thought patterns, good to know it’s not just me! Thanks for putting to workds what my jumble of a brain thinks sometime!! and s’more?? yes please, don’t mind if I do!
Hi Joy —
These look and sound amazing. However, I don’t see the chocolate that’s used for melting in the recipe anywhere. Am I blind???? Please advise…I really want to make these.
Wonderful thoughts on life. You’re right, it’s not morbid. It can actually be quite healthy to think about the sum total of your life sometime. If you haven’t already, you should totally watch the movie *Stranger than Fiction.* I love the baker character’s statement on changing the world through cookies.
I made homemade indoor s’mores for a bake sale 2 weeks ago. I used the homemade graham cracker recipe from KAF. Then I put the marshmallows on top under the broiler for toasting. Some of them burned. Oops. Then I melted choc chips w/ bit of oil and spooned over the top and bottoms. Oh my! I think I’m spoiled for life. I may never eat them again till I make more home made graham crackers. Or go your way with chocolate wafers. This could be deadly.
Joy, I’m Italian, and in Italy we don’t have s’mores. But I read your blog, and I’m now wondering about how many s’mores I’ll have. In the sum total of my life ;-) Loove you!
Love love love S’mores and this double chocolate version looks amazing. Can’t wait to give it a taste test!
S’mores = Summer. I love your blog posts; they’re so cute.
These are amaze!!! I halved the recipe and had to try reeeally hard to not eat all of them by myself in one sitting. So delicious!
Like regular smores weren’t bad enough, now we have double chocolate. And i say, hat’s off to the idea!! :-)
I love that you turned the S’mores idea into such a creative fashion! Look absolutely delicious!
Love the recipe! Anyone else having trouble with printing it?
This looks great! Your pictures are awesome!
These make me drool! I’m adding these to my To-Make list
Omgosh…these look INCREDIBLE!!!!
Too weird! I just saw this post…and made chocolate wafers from Alice Medrich…the other night. Holy smokes…way too good. I can’t stop popping them in my mouth. Been making little stacked mini sorbet sandwiches with peppermint sorbet that I made, and leaving them in the freezer door in little cupcake holders for Erik to discover upon coming home (when I’m already working a night shift). Boy, does that make his evening!!
Since I’m so in love with the wafers, I MUST try this recipe too…
For more to randomly pop into my mouth.
I think this is the perfect summer (indoors) recipe – just finished making it! I ended making way too much marshmallow creme for the cookies (as we don’t eat gelatin and vegetarian/vegan marshmallows are rediculously hard to find), and making a chocolate gamache instead of just melting chocolate… SO GOOD! made about a dozen & a half cookie sandwiches and I don’t think they’re going to last too long ;). Now what to do with about 8 cups of marshmallow creme…
YUMM
These look and sound amazing. However, I don’t see the chocolate that’s used for melting in the recipe anywhere. Am I blind???? Please advise…I really want to make these.