S'mores

I finally managed to make a yummy S'more with the microwave!! What is S'more? It is a sweet treat made of graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows. The chocolate and marshmallows are smashed in between two pieces of graham crackers. Graham crackers are similar to the McVities digestives biscuits that can be found only at Marks and Spencer (at least in Malaysia lah, but I have yet to find it here in MI). The graham crackers are not as nutritious as the digestives but is quite tasty and I would eat it as snack once in a while. The McVities is still my all-time favorite biscuit. Every time I go back to M'sia, that is definitely one of the snacks that I will bring back here. Unfortunately, Marks and Spencer is only in KL so if I don't make a trip to KL, then there is no digestive biscuits for Ping.

The best S'mores is when the marshmallows are roasted over a bonfire. I have been in the US for soooo long and this is actually the first time I made one!! I learned how to make one from an expert too! We did it recently when we went camping at Sleeping Bear. First we have to prepare the chocolate pieces on a piece of graham cracker. Then put the marshmallow through the end of a twig or better if you have a satay sticks (Mei Ling, we have to do this when I go back...hopefully next year! We can do it at my parents garden!). It is very easy to get the marshmallows burnt so have to hold the sticks at the 'perfect distance'. :P It will take a while for the marshmallows to brown on the outside and soft in the inside so have to be very patient! It has to be brown on the outside because that will make it crunchy! (Yes, the photo is crappy because Ping does not know how to take photos when it is all dark!). Once the marshmallow is ready, use the other piece of graham cracker to 'kiap' the marshmallow onto the other piece that has the chocolate on it. Yummy! It is very very sweet though so two servings will be more than enough! But I like the marshmallow made this way so I was snacking on the marshmallow for breakfast the next morning! If you like dark chocolate, that will be better because it takes away a little of the sweetness from the marshmallow.

Even though it was sweet, I was excited about eating real S'mores instead of those S'mores flavored stuff. So I took the leftovers of the ingredients from Fan to make them at home. We used the microwave to melt the marshmallows. It is very tricky o! Different microwave requires different timing too. John did it the first time and it was just right. The marshmallows did not pop in the microwave and it melts the chocolate so that they mix well when you bite into it. Ever since then, I have tried it on my own multiple times and I finally get it right!!! The timing is definitely very important! Hehe...

This is how the S'mores would look like before the marshmallow is melted.
And this is how it looks like after I 'kepek' the crackers and bite into it.
Yummy! This is definitely an American treat!!