Everyone loves s’mores! Learn How to Throw a S’mores Party with these simple tips for setting up the perfect s’mores station! Plus a recipe for making the best oven-made s’mores.
This summer Kevin and I hosted a pool, pizza, and S’mores party every Monday night. It was a wonderful way to extend the weekend and get to know our neighbors. We’d all start to filter in after work, swim and hang out by the pool until sunset, order a pizza from our favorite local pizza joint for dinner, eat off paper plates, and then after dark, we’d head back outside to toast marshmallows around the fire pit.
I had so much fun setting up a different “S’mores Station” for us each week. In addition to the standard s’mores fixings, I decided to mix things up and offer options for different kinds of crackers, marshmallows, chocolates and spreads, so everyone could mix and match and make their own unique s’mores creation. S’mores deserve so much more credit than just graham crackers and Hershey’s bars! :) Plus all our neighbors got so into creating their own custom s’more! :) We had way too much fun dreaming up and sharing new flavor combos.
Multi Seed Crackers
Kevin and I learned a lot over the summer from our weekly s’mores nights, including certain ingredients we knew we had to keep on hand at all times, and what supplies are an absolute must. There were also flavor combinations that stood out above the rest.
Fall is the perfect season for making s’mores, so if you’ve been wanting to to have a S’mores party at your house, I highly recommend it!! :) Here are our best tips and favorite ingredients for throwing the perfect S’mores party.
!! :) If you think you don’t like s’mores, or you not a huge graham cracker fan (me) you’ve got to try a s’more with Ritz! The buttery-salty-sweet aspect sends s’mores over the top!! :)
Gluten Free Vegan Graham Crackers
I always skip the grahams and head straight for the Ritz when making my s’mores, but I do always keep graham crackers on hand for the traditionalists. But we go through the Ritz three times as fast. Everyone is a convert after they try it! :)
Other options: Girl Scout Cookies. How fun would s’mores be with a marshmallow stuffed between two Thin Mints?? Or Samoas??! Or how about two freshly baked homemade chocolate chip cookies?? Oh dear. I could get in trouble here!!
I prefer just the original, standard-sized Kraft Jet Puffed Marshmallows. Kevin always requests the Chocolate & Vanilla Swirl variety as well. We tried the designed-for-s’mores Stacker Mallows, but found the size of the marshmallows to be too big for toasting perfection. When the outside was perfectly brown and toasty, the inside was still cold and raw. The outside of the marshmallow would burn before the inside would get melty and gooey. The original Kraft Jet Puffed Marshmallows are still the best when it comes to s’mores!
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These were the three chocolates we kept on hand at all times. Every week we’d mix it up with fun novelty chocolate bars we’d find (like Cookies and Cream Hershey Bars, Ghirardelli Dark & Sea Salt Caramel Bars) but these were the three we kept coming back to over and over.
The Hershey’s Special Dark was my second favorite. And we always had a plentiful supply of the original Hershey’s Bar for the traditionalists. :)
Other options: Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups. I haven’t done this one yet, but I’m dying to try it! I’ve been keeping an eye out for them in the checkout line at the grocery store.
Ingredient Saltine Cracker Toffee
Oh boy. Here’s where it gets fun!! :) There are so many yummy spreads to choose from! Variety is key here. It’s fun having so many options! :) The ones above were the most popular at our S’mores nights and the ones we put out every week. Most of these can be found in the peanut butter aisle of the grocery store.
Plates for each person was a trick we learned a few weeks into S’mores night. We found it worked best to prepare the s’more ahead of time. Choose your cracker, add a spread, top with chocolate, and then it’s all ready for when your marshmallow reaches that perfectly toasted, so gooey it’s about to fall into the fire stage, and you’re not scrambling for a cracker to put it on.
Out of all the combinations we tried with all the ingredients above, there was one combination that stood out above the rest. One combination that everyone kept coming back to over and over. This is the one that converted our beach friends into s’mores fans after said she never liked s’mores until she tried one like this. And that is the famous Ritz Peanut Butter Cup S’mores.
Graham Crackers — The Lovely Crazy
Ritz Crackers + Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup + Gooey Toasted Marshmallow. Press it together and let it sit for a minute while the hot marshmallow melts the chocolate and peanut butter.
S’mores can also easily be made using the broiler of your oven. I actually find it a lot easier to get that perfectly toasted shell using the broiler than a fire! Just lay a sheet of parchment paper over a cookie sheet, add as many or as few marshmallows as you want, and broil on the middle rack (not too close to the broiling element) until it reaches the desired shade of toastiness. (It took about 1 minute in my oven) Then flip to the other side and repeat so both sides are toasty. Remove and immediately place each marshmallow on a prepared s’more.
These were the three s’mores combos I found myself coming back to over and over. They are definitely my favorites. I can’t get enough of them!! :)
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Now I want to hear from you! :) Have you ever made gourmet s’mores? What are some of your favorite s’mores combinations? Do you have a favorite s’mores topping I didn’t list? Let me know in the comments section! :) I am always ready to try new s’mores. :)
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We love to travel and to eat! Here we share our favorite quick and easy recipes, plus travel tips and guides for our favorite places around the world. If you have any questions about what camera I use or how I edit my photos, check out my photography tutorials.The best graham crackers are mildly sweet, deliciously crunchy, and make excellent “bread” for a chocolate and marshmallow sandwich. We tasted more than a dozen popular graham cracker brands and varieties to find the absolute best graham crackers for s’mores.
Graham crackers don’t get enough credit. They’re too sweet to eat with cheese, but they’re not quite sweet enough to count as cookies when a hankering for dessert hits, so they kind of wind up in this in-between realm alongside animal crackers, which I’m confident people would more openly disdain if they weren’t super nostalgic and didn’t come in fun shapes.
Homemade Graham Crackers
Personally, my favorite way to eat graham crackers is to break up a stack, put them in a bowl, cover them in milk, and smush them until they become a sweet porridge. (Yes, I am an adult woman and not a baby, and, yes, I have teeth, but I’m telling you this is delicious.) But you can’t deny that the most popular graham cracker application is s’mores. Their mild sweetness makes them a perfect vehicle for cloying ingredients like chocolate and marshmallows.
If s’mores are on the menu, I think most people just grab a box of Honey Maid and call it a day, but I’m pleased to report that there’s a whole world of graham crackers out there with different textures and flavors and levels of sweetness. Before you spark up the campfire, give this list of the best graham crackers a long, hard look.
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Homemade Graham Crackers Recipe
I’ve said it before and I’ll certainly say it again: Some things are classics for a reason. Honey Maid graham crackers are a classic because they’re great. If you haven’t had graham crackers in a minute, you’re probably thinking, “Eh, little dry, little boring.” But these have a lot going on! In addition to that distinct and timeless “graham” flavor, Honey Maid graham crackers have an excellent honey sweetness and really taste more like cookies as you chew. They fill your mouth with the flavor of a real-deal baked good. Yup, the best graham crackers for s’mores are exactly what you thought they’d be.
You gotta love a graham cracker that comes perfectly shaped for s’mores,
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