Recipe for Happiness: Living-Room S’mores
Sometimes you want to eat s’mores and you can’t get out into nature to properly suffuse yourself with sugar amidst leaves and stars. So grab some household items, set down a flame-retardant place mat and eat s’mores while watching your favorite movie (and occasionally drop s’mores on the floor…nothing more lovely than a gooey marshmallow on your rented carpet….yeeeha).
Living Room S’mores
Ingredients:
1 bag of large-size marshmallows
skewers (metal or bamboo)
1 box of graham crackers
2 chocolate bars (try Hershey’s or fancier stuff like Lindt or Scharffen Berger)
1 shallow bowl
4 tea light candles
Directions:
Pick a safe place for living room s’mores like a low coffee table. Place the tealights in the center of the shallow bowl. Break the graham crackers and chocolate into bite-size pieces. Place the marshmallows in a bowl. Put all s’mores ingredients on a tray and place on the coffee table next to the “fire” a.k.a. tealights in a bowl. Light the tealights (you can do more of these “fires” so people don’t have to wait). Toast the marshmallows to desired doneness and eat immediately. This dessert is best served with a movie that is not too intense so you can actually notice when the marshmallows catch on fire (from experience, I was watching a particularly engrossing episode of–what else–the Gilmore Girls and ended up with flaming ball of marshmallow death that I had to sacrifice on the side of the “fire” bowl).
Enjoy!
***This one goes out to Jane who is fighting for her life in the hospital…hang in there, woman. We want to eat s’mores with you in the future…
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