Ooey, Gooey Smores Bars for the Dessert Plate

Ooey, Gooey Smores Bars for the Dessert Plate keeps the shopping list focused on oz Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars 2 bars, mini marshmallows, and milk chocolate chips. It serves 16 Bars.

Count on 15 minutes of prep, 25 minutes of cooking, about 40 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

For the Bars:Unit Conversion

• 3 oz Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars 2 bars
• 3 cups mini marshmallows
• ½ cup milk chocolate chips
• 7 oz sweetened condensed milk, about ½ a can

For the Graham Cracker Crust

• ½ cup unsalted butter melted
• 1 cup graham cracker crumbs ~10 sheets
• ¾ cups dark brown sugar packed
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• pinch of salt optional

How the cooking goes

1. Heat the oven to 350. Butter 8×8 dish or line with criss-crossed parchment.
2. Crush your graham crackers into crumbs or buy them this way! the preferred method is to throw them in a ziplock plastic bag and whack them with a rolling pin, can, or even your hand will do. It’s kind of therapeutic. As It was crumbling the graham crackers wondering, “Don’t they sell graham cracker crumbs!?” Why yes, yes they do! You highly suggest you go that route.
3. Melt butter in a medium mixing bowl in the microwave. Dump the remaining crust ingredients in with the butter and mix. Press into prepared dish.
4. Arrange your Hershey’s bars in cute little rows.
5. If you want to get a little crazy with the Hershey’s and not leave as much space, you go on with your bad self! [Name that movie!] But you will warn you that these Smores Bars are SWEET!
6. Then dump your marshmallows on top. The quantities listed above are really more like guidelines. If you are a marshmallow person, pile ’em on!!!
7. The sprinkle some milk chocolate chips on top. You know how some days a few chips aren’t enough? Yeah, It was having one of those days. Why Ghirardelli chips and Hershey’s bars? Because, as crazy as this might sound, the chocolate palate has matured over the years and Hershey’s just doesn’t float the boat as much anymore, but would they be Smores without Hershey’s? You’ll field that one for you. No. No, they would not. Thus Hershey’s AND Ghriardelli it is.
8. Pour the sweetened condensed milk overtop. No need to cover every nook and cranny. Honestly it’s best if you don’t. 1/2 can, really? Yes really. You know what you do? You spatula that remaining sweetened condensed milk into a small ziptop plastic baggie and then throw it in the freezer. Just make sure you label it because have you seen sweetened condensed milk in a baggie? It’s gross looking. Someone will throw it out.
9. Anyways put those Smores Bars in the preheated oven and bake for 20-30 minutes or until the top is a perfect deep gold. Cook longer if you like your smores burnt. Here’s to that!
10. Allow it to cool 10 minutes and then pull the marshmallows away from the sides of the dish with a metal spatula or knife. Allow it to cool until it is no longer warm before cutting, or you will have one big messy (delicious) pile and not perfectly formed bars.

After it comes off the heat

Let the pan settle before you slice, so the crumb stays together. Cover leftovers once they are cool.

If you want another plate from Brownies and bars, open Cranberry Cinnamon Jam Bars Jarred for the Pantry and Gingerbread Blondies with a Steady Rise.