Monday, June 18, 2012

S'mores Gift Bask or S'mores Party Idea

Our FABULOUS daycare provider just moved into a new house, and instead of giving her a gift card for a house-warming present, my daughters and I decided to make her a gift basket. Our daycare provider has a fire pit so we thought it would be fun to give her a S'mores Gift Basket.




The gift basket (actually a bright red mixing bowl) included the following items:
Graham Crackers
Hershey's Bars (the big pack)
Marshmallows
1 Hershey's Cookies 'n Cream Bar
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Werther's Original Chewy Caramels
1 Hershey's Dark Chocolate Bar
Roasting forks

Some of the items listed above may seem a bit odd, but I included the following recipes:
Toasted Wacky Taffies
6 wrapped caramels
12 Ritz crackers

Unwrap caramels and insert one onto the end of roasting fork. Hold fork about 12" to 15" over coals. Toast caramel over campfire until just softened, being careful not to melt the caramel completely. Place 1 caramel between 2 Ritz crackers.


Sailor S'mores
Marshmallows
Creamy Peanut Butter
Saltine Crackers
Chocolate Bar

Toast marshmallow to desired doneness. Spread peanut butter on 1 side of each saltine, then place piece of chocolate on 1 cracker. Add marshmallow and make sandwich.


S'more Burritos Please!
1 8" flour tortilla
2 to 3 Tbsp crunchy peanut butter
3 Tbsp miniature chocolate chips

Cut 1 piece of foil about 12" long. Set the tortilla in the center of the foil. Spread the peanut butter over the tortilla, almost to the edges. Sprinkle marshmallows and chocolate chips over 1/2 of the tortilla. Fold in sides and then roll like a burrito, beginning with the chocolate chip side. Wrap foil around burrito in a flat pack. Bake in 375 degree oven for 8 to 12 minutes OR double wrap and place on warm embers for 5 to 15 minutes OR grill over medium-low heat for 5 to 10 minutes.


S'more ideas
1. Cookies 'n Creme S'mores: use cookies 'n creme candy and chocolate graham crackers to make s'more.
2. Peanut Butter S'mores: use Reese's peanut butter cups instead of milk chocolate.
3. Dark S'mores: use dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate
4. Chewy Chocolate Caramel: toast caramels and sandwich with chocolate on graham crackers.

My sister and her husband were super lucky and their oldest son built them a brick fire pit for Father's Day. She thought it would be fun to have a S'mores party, and I agree. I think the lists and recipes above would be a great help to setting up her buffet table of s'mores fixin's.

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