Smore's Muffins

Sitting around a campfire with hand carved wooden sticks, roasting marshmallows to golden perfection and sandwiching them between two honey sweetened graham crackers and a layer of chocolate is the quintessence of a perfect summer night.  

As much as I love the act of creating smores, I'm not really sure how I feel about eating them.  I love all of the smore ingredients: graham crackers, chocolate, toasted marshmallows - what's not to like?  I actually prefer to deconstruct my smores to eat them though.  I guess I like to savor each flavor without being muddled together.

Ben and I shared this deconstructed smores ice cream a few weeks ago.  The ice cream experts at "Roll It Up" chopped a whole graham cracker into the vanilla ice cream before they drizzled it with chocolate syrup and rolled it up into these uber creative ice cream rolls.  A couple of toasted marshmallows and a chocolate drizzled graham cracker was all it took to take this ice cream treat from ordinary to extraordinary.

This smore ice cream really got me thinking.  If you can take a smore and transform it into a heavenly frozen treat, what other things can you transform a smore into?  I've made them into cakes and cupcakes but I couldn't help thinking that the chocolate, marshmallow, graham combinations would also make a great muffin.  

Smore's Muffins
1 cup chocolate chips
​1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup marshmallow cream
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Toss chocolate chips with 2 t. flour. 

Whisk together remaining flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. 

Whisk together sugar, butter, milk, vanilla and eggs.

Stir into flour mixture. 

Stir in chocolate chips. 

Fill 12 muffin cups, 3/4 of the way full. 

Bake 20-25 minutes at 350.  

Top each muffin with a Tablespoon of marshmallow cream.  Let sit 10 minutes. 

When sitting around a campfire is not an option, you can always improvise and bake up a batch of smore muffins.  Admittedly, these smore muffins are a little sweeter than your normal breakfast muffin but they're a delicious morning treat.  My plan is to bake a batch another batch of graham cracker muffins without the chocolate and marshmallow.  I'll let you know how they turn out. 

Ciao!

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