Brown butter s’mores cookies

Apr 22, 20247 min read

Whenever i look at anything related to s’mores (Chocolate, biscuits, marshmallows), i feel sad now. Why? Well because i think of girl guides (my CCA) and how i am no longer part of it and never will be again ): yes yes i know i sound very emotional and a bit overdramatic but its because i just had my Sec 4 Farewell from girl guides 1 day ago.

All these past 4 years, trying to find excuses to skip CCA or Saturday events, getting pissed off because we had to wear our girl guide uniform on World Thinking Day, complaining about the heat in railway corridor or Botanical gardens as we did our nature badges, learning sign language, spending 2 hours choreographing a traditional dance, taking care of my brother for a whole day to get a child nurse badge….and now looking back on those days and realising how precious they were.

I’ve made so many friends over this CCA, made so many great memories, learnt so many skills, of which one of them was the art of outdoor cooking s’mores. Girl guide s’mores, with two plain Meiji crackers, a marshmallow and a thick slab of Nutella on each side, wrapped up in a piece of aluminium foil and thrown into our self dug fire pits on the MGS school field.

As so, when I had to make something to bring for my last girl guide camp ever, i knew i had to make it special by incorporating every guides favourite sweet treat ... s'mores!

Name : Brown butter smores cookies

Description: Buttery soft cookies stuffed with biscuits, melty pools of Hersheys chocolate and toasty marshmallow

Flavour Rating: 7.5/10 (these are really really yummy but they taste best fresh/warmed up so make sure to do that!)

Difficulty rating: 4/10

Occasion: midnight snack party during girl guides camp

In this blog I will be sharing about the different variations you can adapt these s’mores cookies, how it felt filming my first day in a life video for my Instagram, as well as a little funny story on how we ate these cookies during the camp!

Variations of s’mores cookies

Well i think its pretty straightforward for people to understand that s’mores cookies need a few components, a plain cracker, chocolate, marshmallows and cookie dough. But the variations come into the configuration of the cookie.

You could have a cracker at the bottom, two cubes of chocolate from a hersheys bar, a marshmallow then the cookie dough covering it. You could also do the same thing but put the marshmallow nested at the top of the cookie dough so that it is exposed to heat and gets roasted (giving it a toastier taste as if you just roasted a marshmallow over a campfire). Lastly, if you are feeling lazy, you could just mix in all the ingredients together, by crushing them up and using mini marshmallows instead of big ones.

After doing a bit of research, i felt that the one with the marshemllow hidden below the cookie dough looked the best because it kind of felt like a surprise. Like..Oh! I have a chocolate chip cookie, but then when you take a big bite, you find out that there’s a bunch of stringy chewy marshmellow fluff!

Now that i am thinking about it I would have liked to try making it with the nested method also to see if the taste would be nicer, so that’s definitely something i will be trying out soon!

Halfway through making these s’mores cookie, i ran into a tiny issue when i found out that i RAN OUT of normal size marshmellows. Thankfully when i searched my kitchen pantry, i found a full packet of mini marshmellows that I could use in replacement. This caused me to be interested to see if there would be any difference in how the mini VS normal size marshmellows looked inside the s’mores cookies.

I realised that the mini marshemllows gave a nicer and more spread out pull, meaning that whichever part you bit into the cookie, you would most likely get a bit of a long marshmellow pull. In contrast, with the normal marshmellow, they don't really melt evenly and spread across the cookie, instead leaving you with a giant pocket of marshmellow fluff in the middle. Depends on which one you prefer more but i got a lot of comments that people preferred having the bigger marshemllow because the flavour came through more and was more prominent.

When I tried to fit these marshmellows cookies inside the cookie though, it wasnt as simple as placing a single marshmellow above the piece of chocolate and sealing it up with cookie dough because the mini marshmellows WOULD NOT stay in place!! Thankfully due to my big brain innovation #selfpraise i figured out that i could flatten the cookie dough in my hand, stick the mini marshmellows on one side and place that side face down on the crackers and chocolate. So no more escaping marshmallows.

Even the type of chocolate that you use inside these cookies can be adapted, you could use a classic milk chocolate Hershey’s bar, chocolate chips or even Nutella! The crackers at the bottom can also be anything HAHA, i honestly just rummaged through my kitchen pantry again and took out all the plain crackers I could find, with the circular digestive cookies looking the most appealing aesthetic wise.

After doing this slightly excessive deliberation of all the possible add ins, combinations and layouts of these cookies I am now motivated to try this recipe again but try using Meiji crackers, Nutella and a marshmallow nested on top.

Filming my first “day in the life” video

I always try doing new things with my videos and content that I put up on my instagram page because its fun for me and interesting to see how people react to different videos HAHA. I did a poll on my Instagram before and have gotten quite a lot of requests/suggestions to do day in my life videos, so I finally decided to give this a try!

To be honest when i tried filming the clips for this, i was still trying to figure out how the clips should be different from my usual. So when i took it to Tik Tok to get inspiration off other home bakers/content creators to see how they pulled it off, i realised that usually these videos are structured with a timeline and have a bit of a story to them. Thus i tried to get clips of random things that i did which were not as glamorous or related to the actual cookie (such as clips of cleanup, making a mess, taking a break in between baking, my filming setup etc). Surprisingly at the end, when I stringed all the clips together, i found out that it did have a pretty good story backbone which was quite different from what i put in my other video! But i didn't expect filming content for two different videos + a million pictures from all the possible angles to be so tiring and hard. When i was done with this, i just laid in bed and knocked out while thinking about the warm cookies i had just eaten.

Funny story on how we ate these cookies during camp

We initially planned to have a whole nightime party where each of the Sec 4s brought a snack that started with the first letter of their name. So for me i called it "nadzcrumbz smores cookies".

Sadly, by the time we got back to the classrooms, it was already lights out and the teachers were doing night patrols with their iPhone flashlights out. We could literally see them from inside the pitch black classroom. So if we were going to still have out nighttime snack party, we would need to be slick so that we wont get caught.

We decided to make a plan, where all of us would lie down in circle, with our heads in the centre and out body's tucked into our sleeping bags, something like this:

One of us was also on standby (lol) to give a signal when they saw light coming from outside the classroom so that we could hide the box of cookies under our sleeping bag. And guess who this important, crucial, number 1 priority job was assigned to? ME!

So yes, thats how our nightime nack party went, and though it didn't go completely to plan, we sitll had a heck of a fun time at 12 am, eating smores cookies together.

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