Smores Cookie Bars ~ Potluck Sunday

Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of Potluck Sunday! First off I want to say how excited I am to be back up and posting again. I hope all the issues that I have been having with my site are now behind me (fingers crossed). It has been a whole two weeks since my last recipe post. I think that is the longest I have gone sine Mommy's Kitchen started.

So please forgive me for adding my Sunday post a bit early. I want to share a recipe for Smores Cookie Bars. Let me tell you these cookie bars are delicious and deadly all rolled in one. They have a cookie dough crust on the bottom; top that off with two king size Hershey's bars, marshmallow cream and a second layer of cookie dough. Whew these babies are defiantly not low calorie at all.

I found this recipe over at one of my favorite blogs, Real Mom Kitchen. When I saw these bars it was love at first site. Chocolate, marshmallow and a cookie crust how can you go wrong with that combination. I love Laura's site and it is very similar to mine. Maybe that is why I love it so much. That's Laura in the middle in the above picture. I was lucky enough to finally meet Laura while in Park City, Utah for the Evolution of Woman Social Media Conference back in June.

Next to Laura are me and Jamie from Jamie Cooks it Up. We had had such a great time chatting about everything we could think of. It was so nice to finally meet these ladies face to face. I was so sad when we had to part at the end of the conference. If you haven't stopped by either of their sites you really must do so. They have a wealth of recipes that I am sure you will love. OK everyone you know how it works.

Do you have a recipe you would like to bring to my potluck? If so then link directly to your post not your homepage. Please include a link back to Mommy's Kitchen so everyone can see all the delicious recipes. I can't wait to see what everyone brings. I have included some step by step photos of the smores cookie bars. In usual fashion the full recipe is at the end of this post.

Grease an 8-inch square baking pan or you can line your pan with foil for easy removal and cutting. Use an electric mixer to cream together butter and both sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Set aside. Meanwhile,whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to the creamed butter mixture until combined.

Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. 2 king-sized Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly side by side. Spread chocolate with marshmallow creme or fluff. Place blobs of it on the chocolate and then spread it around.

Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff (you can roll the dough out between two pieces of waxed paper and use a spatula to place pieces of it on the top and pressed the pieces together). Bake for 30 to 35 minutes (I did mine a little longer to get that nice brown color), until lightly browned.


Be sure to cool completely before cutting into bars. Makes 16 squares.


Cool completely before cutting into bars.


Here are a couple of my taste testers that have been hovering over the oven. They were both about to come unglued until they each got one of these scrumptious bars. Both of my kiddos gave these bars a thumbs up.

Smores Cookie Bars

1 - stick of butter, room temperature (1/2 cup)
1/4 - cup brown sugar
1/2 - cup sugar
2 - king-sized Hershey’s milk chocolate bars
1 - large egg
1 - 7 oz jar marshmallow creme/fluff
1- tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 - cups all purpose flour
3/4 - cups graham cracker crumbs
(7 - full-sized graham cracker sheets, processed til fine)
1 - tsp baking powder
1/4- tsp salt

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan (I line my pan with foil for easy removal and cutting). Use an electric mixer to cream together butter and both sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Set aside. Meanwhile,whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to the creamed butter mixture until combined.

Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. 2 king-sized Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly side by side. (I had to trim a little off one bar to get mine to fit.) Spread chocolate with marshmallow creme or fluff. Place blobs of it on the chocolate and then spread it around.

Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff (I rolled the dough out between two pieces of waxed paper and use a spatula to place pieces of it on the top and pressed the pieces together). Bake for 30 to 35 minutes (I did mine a little longer to get that nice brown color), until lightly browned. Be sure to cool completely before cutting into bars. Makes 16 squares.
Cool completely before cutting into bars.

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