S’mores Cookie Recipe
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Say hello to the newest member of the cookie family here on Kroll’s Korner: the Smores Cookie Recipe!
If you love an amazingly soft, chewy chocolate chip cookie and the gooey-ness of a traditional s’more, this Smore’s Cookie is just for you.
If you’ve made my Kroll’s Kookies before, you’ll know how chewy, thick, and amazing they are. This recipe is just that, but in S’mores fashion!
These S’mores Cookies use the base of the Kroll’s Kookies recipe, but have the addition of a soft marshmallow stuffed in the center, as well as the graham cracker crumbs in the batter.
I am also using a mix of chocolate chips and broken up pieces of Hershey chocolate bars because you can’t make S’mores without a Hershey Bar!
Smores Cookies are fun for BBQs, Fourth of July, picnics, and parties. These taste perfect when they are just slightly cooled — you get the combination of a gooey marshmallow, warm, melted Hershey’s chocolate, and a slight hint of graham cracker.
- All-Purpose Flour: All-Purpose Flour helps to maintain the structure of the cookies. If you find your cookies are spreading out, you can try adding 1-4 Tbsp. more flour.
- Cake flour: Cake flour is finer, softer, and lighter than All-Purpose Flour and helps to create the perfect, fluffy cookie. You can find it in most grocery stores or make your own homemade cake flour.
- Cornstarch: The small bit of cornstarch is the secret to the soft center of the cookies. It also helps to keep these S’mores Cookies thick even after baking.
- Baking powder: leavening agent for the cookies
- Baking soda: leavening agent for the cookies, but about four times stronger than baking powder
- Salt: The salt helps to bring out the sweetness of the cookies
- Brown sugar: The brown sugar makes the Smores Cookies soft, moist, and chewy. Feel free to use light or dark brown sugar.
- Cold, unsalted butter: The cold butter will create tiny pockets of air that release steam while the cookies are baking. This results in a fluffier, lighter cookie.
- Granulated white sugar: White sugar will help these giant cookies spread a little bit while baking, so it is best to make these gooey cookies with the combination of white and brown sugar.
- Egg: Use room temperature eggs to result in a lighter, fluffier cookie.
- Egg yolk: The extra egg yolk adds richness and tenderness to the cookie, and it also binds the dough all together.
- Pure Vanilla extract: The vanilla extract acts as another rich base note of flavor to the cookie, and it can help highlight the chocolate flavor.
- Graham crackers: Adding crushed graham cracker crumbs adds that extra layer of texture and taste of original S’mores. I like to reserve a few pieces to decorate on top of the cookie (optional).
- Milk chocolate chips: I love making these S’mores Cookies with milk chocolate the best, but feel free to use any chocolate that you prefer.
- Hershey’s chocolate bar: The Hershey’s chocolate bar gives that extra chocolate-y flavor, and the bigger pieces result in more melted chocolate for the perfect cookie! I like to reserve a few chunks to decorate on top of the cookie (optional)
- Mix together dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
- Cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla extract.
- Gradually add in dry ingredients.
- Add in the broken graham cracker pieces, chocolate chips and Hershey Bar chunks.
- Roll dough balls into ~7-8 large cookies.
- Make a well in the center of the cookie. Slice a marshmallow in half and fold dough over marshmallow.
- Decorate cookies with reserved graham cracker pieces and chocolate chunks if desired.
- Bake until tops are golden brown and until the marshmallow slightly resembles a toasted marshmallow.
- Let cool, transfer to cooling rack or parchment paper and enjoy!
- Using a mix of both All-Purpose Flour and cake flour makes the cookies fluffy! If you choose to you 100% All-Purpose Flour, the cookie will be more dense, but they will still be delicious. You can also make your own homemade cake flour.
- Make sure to spoon the flour into your measuring cup and level it off with the back of a knife instead of scooping the flour with your measuring cup.
- Pull the cookies out before you think they are done, since they will continue to cook a little bit from the hot baking pans as you let them cool down.
- If you over bake these cookies, they won’t be as gooey or soft in the center, and the marshmallow may spill out onto the baking pan.
- Add an extra egg yolk along with the 1 whole egg to make super chewy, delicious, and amazing cookies!
- Don’t flatten out these cookies before you place them into the oven so your cookies stay be nice and thick! The giant cookies will help keep the marshmallows intact before baking, and you’ll end up with perfect S’mores Cookie.
- I have not tested this recipe with mini marshmallows. I feel like the might make the cooke too sticky to enjoy if folded into the batter!
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Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 3/4 cup Cake Flour
- 1 tsp. cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 7 sheets graham crackers, broken into pieces (6 mixed in the cookie dough, 1 for garnish)
- 10 oz. Hershey Chocolate Bar chunks (9 oz. mixed in the cookie dough, 1 oz. for garnish) ((You can use 6, 1.55 oz. bars or 2, 4.4 oz. XL bars))
- 1 cup chocolate chips (milk chocolate or semi sweet)
- 4 marshmallows, cut in half
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Mix dry ingredients together: In a large bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, cake flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars: Place the cold, cubed butter into the bowl of a stand mixer and secure the paddle attachment. Let the mixer cream the butter for about 30 seconds then add in both sugars and blend until incorporated and creamy.
- Then add in the egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract. Blend until mixed. If any of the mixture gets stuck on the paddle attachment or side of the bowl use a rubber spatula to knock it off.
- Turn the mixer to low speed and gradually add in the dry ingredients. I add in about ¼ cup at a time. Add in 6 graham crackers, Hershey's chocolate and chocolate chips until incorporated and then turn off the machine.
- Measure out the cookies into 7, ~5 oz. portions (or smaller if you prefer). Make a well in the center of the cookie with your thumbs. Slice a marshmallow in half and fold dough over marshmallow.
- Decorate cookies with reserved graham cracker pieces and chocolate chunks if desired. Bake at 375°F for 10-13 minutes or until tops are golden brown. Let cool and enjoy!
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In the x2 recipe it states “2 stick cold butter cubed (8 Tbsp.)” 2 sticks of butter would be 16 Tbsp. Help! which one is it?
Sorry if you double it, you need 16 tbsp.!
This recipe is fantastic. My son tells me not to make them because they are too good! lol. I am going to try to make them more of a normal size cookie. Do
You know how long I should adjust the cook time? I don’t want to over or under cook then. They are so great!
haha love it!! thank you! All ovens vary so I can’t say for sure. Maybe a minute less? Just keep an eye on them! 🙂
These were the BEST s’mores cookies I’ve ever made, perfect texture crispy on the outside and chewy inside. I also used vegan butter to make it dairy free. 10/10 cookie recipe.
They look amazing!! Thank you soo so much. Glad the vegan butter worked out, too!
Tastes great but was very dry and I couldn’t shape it without everything falling apart. Is there a conversion to grams so I can make sure I don’t have too much dry ingredients?
Oh no I am so sorry! Yes in the recipe card you’ll be able to see the conversions listed 🙂 I hope this helps. And be sure to use the spoon & level method too if you haven’t tried that yet!
I made these cookies for my family to enjoy at our bonfire and they LOVED them! A super delicious twist on a traditional s’more, maybe even tastier! 🙂
P.S. I used the cake flour substitute method. As a tiny shortcut I just put 2 Tbsp cornstarch in the 1-cup measuring cup and filled the rest of it to the top with all-purpose flour, then sifted the combo. It worked well and the cookies came out wonderfully!
They look incredible!! Thank you so much Florence!! 🙂
This was the first cookie I made of your cookie recipes. I had a huge milk chocolate bar and Graham crackers from Trader Joe’s in my cupboard and mini chocolate chips in the freezer . square flat marshmallows which I cut in fours oops next time in half .
The cookies were a hit even though I didn’t have Hershey chocolate. I will definitely make again only more marshmallows.
It has been so much fun baking your cookie recipe’s . I cannot wait to make these for my grandkids bake sales and for my grandsons football team . They have team dinner every Thursday night during football season. This NaNa
Gets called to donate desert and I’m happy to do it .
Thank you for these amazing new recipes!!!
I am so glad! They look incredible Barbie. Thank you!
There are so many of Tawnie’s cookies that we make over and over again, the S’mores is one of them! It is probably the second favorite after Cookies and Cream, among our friends and family. I have used whole marshmallows, marshmallows cut in half as the recipe calls for, or five little ones per cookie, whatever I have on hand, and all have worked well! I have always made these without the additional chocolate chips, for some reason, and they’re still amazing. I love how these recipes are so adaptable and always turn out delicious! (In response to someone else’s comment about cookies flattening, not sure if this could have been the case, but sometimes if the dough warms up, I find they spread more. I only have one large tray I like to bake cookies on, so if I can’t fit all of the cookies on it, I will stick the remaining dough in the fridge until I can bake the rest.)
Mine too over 20 minutes to cook because otherwise they were super mushy. Is that normal??
They are a soft cookie and I recommend letting them rest at least 15-30 min before diving in to enjoy one. They cook a little bit when you remove from oven too! Sorry about that!! Hope they were still delicious!!
I see in your video that you put extra Hershey’s pieces on the cookie before baking. Does the chocolate melt or hold its shape when coming out of the oven? They look delicious.
Thank you.
Hi Kathy! The chocolate holds it’s shape well in my opinion. Right out of the oven it’s melty but not so much so to lose its shape. You could even put the chocolate in the freezer so it’s cold when you garnish then put in oven. Hope you love them! xo, Tawnie
I made these and some of them went flat 🙁
Really? I am so sorry! I’ve never had that issue. You can try adding a few extra tablespoons of flour, checking your oven temperature, making sure your baking soda & powder are in date, and use parchment paper or a silpat mat on your baking sheet. I hope this helps and once again SO sorry! xo, Tawnie
What’s really weird is it was 2 cookies that did it not the batch. :-/
You mean only 2 cookies spread, not the entire batch? So bizarre!
Yep 🙁 my luck lol. I blame it on the marshmallows. I meant to ask what size marshmallow did you use?
I’m sorry!! I used half of one regular marshmallow. If you look at the photos and/or video you can see how I used just half. 🙂 Maybe try wrapping the cookie dough around the marshmallow a little better? Not sure if that can fix the problem.