Best S'mores Bars Recipe

No campfire required!

Get all the toasty, comforting, gather-round-the-campfire flavor without stoking a single flame with these delightful s’mores bars. With a buttery graham cracker crust, fudgy chocolate filling, and a toasted marshmallow topping, these bars will feed a crowd's appetite and their souls. This chocolate dessert is the perfect treat to bring to bake sales, cookouts, or any celebration that requires a bit of sweet nostalgia.

What should be in a s’mores bar?

Graham crackers, milk chocolate, and marshmallows are the ultimate dream team. In traditional fireside s’mores, smoky, fluffy marshmallows melt onto rich milk chocolate and are all balanced out by a sandwich of toasty graham crackers. A s’mores bar takes all this careful layering of ingredients and puts it into sliceable, sharable bars. A simple crust of graham crackers crumbs, butter, and sugar are baked into the base of a 13-by-9-inch pan. A combination of melted chocolate and sweetened condensed milk—the easiest fudge in the world—helps make these bars more sliceable than plain melted chocolate. For those with a more bittersweet palate, dark chocolate can be substituted for milk chocolate in these bars. A smattering of marshmallows and a quick stint under the broiler for the obligatory toasted marshmallow topping and these bars are done!

Can you substitute graham crackers in s’mores bars?

Not unlike the crust at the base of a cheesecake, this graham cracker crust is endlessly customizable. Blitz any cookie or cracker in the food processor including saltines, pretzels, chocolate graham crackers, chocolate chip cookies, cereal, gingersnaps, or ice cream cones. You can even add ½ cup of crushed potato chips to the 2 ½ cups of graham crackers for the sweet and salty dessert of your dreams.

Can s’mores bars be made ahead?

These s’mores bars are ideally made ahead of time for easier slicing; the chocolate needs some time to set up. This process can be sped up by placing the bars in the freezer for 20 minutes or the refrigerator for 1 hour. The bars can be made 24 hours in advance. Leave extra foil hanging over the sides of the pan to use as handles for easier transfer from the pan to a cutting board.

Nonstick cooking spray

sheets graham crackers

salted butter, melted

packed light brown sugar

(12 oz.) milk chocolate, finely chopped or chips, plus more to sprinkle

14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk

(10-ounce) bag mini marshmallows

Leah Perez is a professionally trained recipe developer and food history fanatic. When she is not testing, tasting, and fine-tuning a recipe for The Pioneer Woman, she can be found reading in the botanical gardens or stirring up risotto for her friends.

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