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<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve never seen one look that pristine, but the image shows the construction.<\/p>\n
At any rate, the flavor combo of graham cracker, milk chocolate and marshmallow is pretty good to most folks.<\/p>\n
Last week, Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen<\/font><\/a> posted a recipe for s\u2019mores cupcakes<\/font><\/a>. They were for her son’s school to celebrate his and other September birthday kids, birthdays. They looked like so much fun and I’d been wanting to take a special treat to my neighbor’s children: Carter (5) and Hudson (7). So, I made the recipe.<\/p>\n Deb’s “secret” is crushed graham crackers in the cupcake batter. It works!<\/p>\n Some of the insides are scooped out and filled with a milk chocolate ganache…<\/p>\n Now, Deb left the tops off …wonder what she did with them ? I put the tops back on save for a bit of inside stuff that I lopped off … and ate. Well, wouldn’t you ?<\/p>\n If you clicked over and looked at Deb’s cupcakes and recipe, you would see that she topped the cupcakes with meringue which she then browned with a kitchen torch. I don’t have a kitchen torch, but I figured I could brown the meringue under the broiler. I’m sure that would work, but I had a failure with the meringue. I have some ideas why, but suffice to say that the egg – sugar – cream of tartar mix did not peak…<\/p>\n Fortunately, another commenter before me noted that instead of meringue, she topped the cupcakes with marshmallows and ran those under the broiler. So that’s what I did and it was fine. The kids were thrilled with cupcakes that had marshmallows on them. Win!<\/p>\n Onward.<\/p>\n In response to Deb’s s’mores cupcake post, David Lebovitz<\/font><\/a> posted a recipe for s\u2019mores ice cream<\/font><\/a>. Huh. <\/p>\n Well, I had to try.<\/p>\n The ice cream was as much fun to make as the cupcakes. This was my first summer with an ice cream machine and it was such a hot summer (hot for Montana…) and I made mostly fruit ice creams. The idea of chocolate and marshmallows or other gooey stuff just did not appeal. But now, I was ready to try something different. This recipe is a vanilla custard base with a ripple of chocolate sauce, roasted marshmallows and crushed graham crackers. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n