S’mores Bars with Nuts

S’mores Bars. Lacking a campfire, this one is pretty good. Sticking to the traditional components of Hershey bars, graham crackers and marshmallows-this s’mores bar with nuts will please anyone. And you can serve them year round!

S’mores bars have three standards. Graham crackers, marshmallows and Hershey bars.

It doesn’t require a campfire though. Made quickly, and with the addition of nuts, these are a bit richer than the campfire version.

I made brownie s’mores and made graham cracker crumb s’mores with marshmallow creme, when Alex came home. He loved those, but I thought for s’mores day I’d rather stay closer to tradition.

I hadn’t planned on giving you a s’mores recipe today, but then I found out that it’s National S’mores Day. Who knew?

Tuesday night found me making these to bring over to the once little girl who lived across the street. Well, she’s not a little girl anymore and she doesn’t live across the street anymore either.

But she is a brand new mommy and I feel old. Hopefully these s’mores will remind her of all those good times so long ago and I’ll be reminded that there are still  many more  s’mores to come!

My mom wasn’t a big s’mores bar lover, but she did enroll me in Brownies, which is where I probably ate my first s’mores bar.

I know I was a Brownie because I have a photo with the beanie cap on my head.

There are  just two things I remember about that experience. The first was that my mom never volunteered. The second was that I went to Brownie summer camp for a week and discovered, not the great outdoors, but s’mores. I came home feeling like my parents had held out on me.

Where had s’mores been all of my seven years? Well, they certainly weren’t at my house. From that point on I had a romantic notion of nature and it always included s’mores.

Going on a picnic? Must have s’mores. I’ve even resorted to using a firelighter to try to turn my marshmallows golden. It doesn’t work so well, nor does the microwave.

When my kids were growing up, I had all the s’mores ingredients on hand. We had the graham crackers, the Hershey bars, and of course the jet puffed marshmallows.

We took the Weber kettle from the Weber grill and set it up on the cement pad in our back yard and made fires in it. This was before there were fire pits everywhere. We got long sticks and when their little friends  were over we made s’mores.

Even when they were in high school, we made s’mores. I prefer my marshmallows a touch burnt, thank you. And that is the only way I eat marshmallows.

My kids grew up in the outdoors with s’mores. They knew the smell of nature and it smelled like a touch of pine and burning sugar. (If only someone could bottle that. I think it would make a great room spray.)

Their burnt fingers knew dripping liquid chocolate and crunchy honey grahams. No sirree. Unlike my folks I made sure my kids knew the great outdoors.

Lucky for us we  have a great backyard with towering spruce trees. One can hear the wind sliding through. One can hear the owls hooting and the fire snapping and one can almost hear kid’s voices-but nope one can’t.

When eating s’mores around a campfire or a Weber kettle, it is almost irreverent to talk. One must watch the red tendrils of the glowing fire catch the sugar of the marshmallows and one must be quick to pull out the glowing stick before the white marshmallow turns suddenly black.

This takes concentration, my friends. And one must not forget that mom is always there to wash your smoke filled clothes.

Our weather is starting to get cool. School starts next week. I remember with sadness when summer ended and school started. It was bittersweet and always ended with two birthdays, two cakes, some friends and s’mores bars.

Enjoy them while you can.

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This is an updated post from August, 2017.

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