S'more ways to make a s'more...

Wrapping up the cute "Stack of S'mores" teacher gifts caused a little bit of a chocolate frenzy. What a perfect little snack to nibble on while watching "The Hills" on MTV. Even after missing a year's worth of episodes, Spencer is still whining to his loser-look-a-like rich friends about a baby his wife Heidi wants to have. Anyway, who can stomach Spencer Pratt without chocolate? So, like every good mama, I always have semi-sweet chocolate chips on hand ... for emergencies. We still had lots of graham crackers left and even some coconut marshmallows from all of those bon fires I thought we'd have this past winter. Jim was being "the skinny girl" so he didn't want to have one - until he saw them!

Here is what you need:
semi-sweet chocolate chips
graham crackers
marshmallows (big!)
foil-lined pan

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line pan with foil and line with graham crackers - it could be one or lots - I needed 2 to stomach Spence (and Justin Bobby.) Cover graham crackers with chocolate chips.

Like this:



Then you pop them into the oven to melt the chocolate chips a little bit. Keep in mind that chocolate chips are designed to hold their shape - even when melted. I'd take them out after 3 or 4 minutes.

Place a marshmallow on top of the melted chips, like this:



Put the pan back into the oven for 3 or 4 minutes more - the marshmallow will puff up and you will know when to pull them out.

I like mine like this:



You can eat them like that - or do what I do - and smoosh them a little for extra ooey gooey-ness.



After eating 2 of these, Spencer and Justin Bobby almost seemed like regular guys. I always knew chocolate could fix anything!