Apron Free Cooking ~ S’mores Indoors

By Noel Lizotte

I don’t know about you, but we’re get­ting a bit of cabin fever at my house. We usu­ally get this way in Feb­ru­ary. The weather is too cold to do much out­side com­fort­ably. The ground is either frozen or muddy. We’ve watched all our videos sev­eral times and we’ve read all the books in the house at least twice.

We’ve started talk­ing about spring and all the things we’re going to do. We’ve planned bicy­cle rides and hik­ing excur­sions. We’ve dis­cussed camp­ing trips and planned the flower beds. We’re antic­i­pat­ing sit­ting on the deck with a fire and a nightcap.

Yes, cabin fever is catch­ing hold. It’s not got­ten so bad that we’ve done any­thing crazy, like strip the wall­pa­per from a wall with­out a remod­el­ing plan. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to some­thing like that. In an effort to stave off a seri­ous case of cabin fever, we made S’mores.

S’mores are a clas­sic camp­ing treat. So we’re able to pre­tend for a few min­utes that the fire isn’t in a fire­place and we’re not sit­ting in our liv­ing room, but rather we’re at a campsite.

S’mores Indoors

Fam­ily Cir­cle Nov 1, 1979

Remem­ber the great taste of gra­ham crack­ers, toasted marsh­mal­lows and real milk choco­late – S’mores. Now this favorite camp­fire treat can be made indoors. Any­time! It’s deli­cious and so easy with Golden Gra­hams Cereal, Karo Corn syrup and Nestle’s Real Milk Choco­late Morsels. Fol­low the recipe and let your whole fam­ily enjoy S’mores tonight!

2/3 cup Karo Light Corn Syrup

2 Table­spoons mar­garine or butter

1 pack­age (11 ½ ounce) Nes­tle Real Milk Choco­late Morsels

1 tea­spoon vanilla

1 pack­age (10 ounce) Golden Gra­ham cereal (about 8 cups)

3 cups minia­ture marshmallows

But­ter bak­ing pan, 13x9x2 inches. Heat corn syrup, mar­garine and real milk choco­late morsels just to boil­ing in 3 quart saucepan, stir­ring con­stantly. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Pour over cereal in large mix­ing bowl. Toss quickly until com­pletely coated with choco­late. Fold in marsh­mal­lows, 1 cup at a time. Press mix­ture evenly in pan with but­tered back of spoon. Let stand until firm, at least 1 hour. Cut into about 1 ½ inch squares. 48 squares.

Make it a Meal: Serve this treat as a dessert after a bowl of chili and hot dogs. You’ll really think you’re at the campsite.

Approx­i­mate Nutri­tional Infor­ma­tion: Serv­ings Per Recipe: 48, Amount Per Serv­ing: Calo­ries: 85, Total Fat: 2g, Cho­les­terol: 1 mg, Sodium: 63mg, Total Carbs: 16g, Pro­tein: 1g.

These taste like the real deal! The best part is, there’s no mess from marsh­mal­lows falling off the stick onto the car­pet. You’ll appre­ci­ate the mess being con­fined to a bowl and a pan, but not to worry. You’ll also appre­ci­ate the sticky fin­ger, choco­late cov­ered marsh­mal­low gooi­ness that will nearly con­vince you that you are camp­ing! Or at least, that you’re sit­ting in the back­yard with a fire in the char­coal grill. The real ben­e­fit to this treat in the liv­ing room is that when you’ve fin­ished trad­ing sto­ries and eaten all the Indoor S’mores, you can just crawl into your own bed and not a sleep­ing bag spread over the lumpy ground that always appears under a camp­ing tent.

Noel Lizotte is break­ing free of cor­po­rate stress with con­ve­nience cook­ing! This recipe is sim­i­lar to ones printed in her cook­book Apron Free Cook­ing which is avail­able on the web­site www.apronfreecooking.com.

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