S’mores, the quintessential summer treat, or overrated snack? Are you a traditionalist with the Graham cracker, Hershey’s bar, and marshmallow? Or creative with your base and fillings? How do you feel about S’mores flavored beverages, cookies, and cakes?
I know Deadsplinters have a lot of feelings about things so let’s hear ’em! Then reward yourself with this S’mores Old Fashioned.
OHH VERR RAYY TED!!
As a kid I would have fought you, as n adult I agree.
Agreed.
i have no opinion for ive never had smores
over here the quintesential anytime of year snack is bitterballen (they are delicious with a drink…but i doubt they’d make for a good drink flavour cookie or cake)
After Googling I think you’re right, not a good cocktail flavor.
OK, I had to look those up.
https://www.thedutchtable.com/2010/10/bitterballen-dutch-deep-fried-gravy.html
They sound good to me.
I CAN TELL ITALY WON BY ALL THE CELEBRATING. SORRY FOR YELLING BUT I CANNOT HEAR MYSELF TYPING DUE TO ALL THE HORNS HONKING AND YELLING AND SCREAMING.
HOPEFULLY I SEE AT LEAST ONE PERSON, SOMEWHERE, WHO IS ALSO WEARING ORANGE ON SUNDAY SO WE CAN…QUIETLY NOD TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE ANOTHER.
GO NEDERLAND!
lol ill be wearing orange 🙂
and yup italy won…nothing happened in the first half..the second half was distracting
(farscy has a method for footy watching…which is i have it on the screen behind me and only wear me cans on one ear…turn around when the commentary gets excited)
i will of course proper watch the dutch matches
Former resident of the Netherlands: I haven’t tried bitterballen due to being vegetarian, but one of my favourite Dutch snacks is poffertjes, which could definitely inspire a cocktail. (If not, then possibly kruidkoek.)
theres veggie bitterballen nowadays..even ones that are oven cooked instead of deepfried
they are pretty good (tho…i cannot reccomend the oven cooked ones….some things just need to be deep fried)
also…that just reminded me…i still have some stroopwafel liquer
i bet that would cocktail
Mmmmm, that sounds good. Fresh stroopwafel is hard to beat.
tbh it broke my head a little
i was expecting a tang of stroopwafel to booze
this shit is liquid stroopwafel that gets you drunk
I am not a smore fan but the rest of my family loves them when we have fires. I am sure at my daughters grad party tonight she will have smores if they don’t get rained out (looking iffy right now, it is raining). Many brewers make a smore porter, I am not a fan of that either but better than the real thing at least. The most easily found nationally are from Shiner & Dogfish Head but I would recommend supporting your local brewer of stouts and porters. Southern Tier made a Creme Brulee Stout that was a very well done beer but a little sweet for me. That said, I would drink that over any smore beers.
I hope your daughter’s party doesn’t get rained out, congrats to her! My daughter had a s’mores bar at a birthday party when she was in middle school. It was a big hit.
Thanks! Smores bar would make her very happy but w/ how much we have foodwise, I think we will save that for another time.
Not for me…chocolate should come in the firm of candy or cocoa.
Don’t care for dessert drinks. I thought this sounded good with the smoke and the chocolate coming from the bitters.
I confess to not watching the whole video. The proportion of eyeglasses to face was off and I got kind of fixated on that, well, it’s been a day.
Never ate a s’more. I just don’t get campfires. Sitting around the campfire. Sitting around the fire. It just seems like a waste of wood to me. I’ll sit in my tent with my headlamp and read a book, thanks. Bring me some of those dutch meatball things, thank-you.
But, I am having some scotch, on the rock, a speyside, how fucking fancy, and I’m going to nibble on some semi-sweet chocolate chips out of the fucking bag, that is how I do dessert drinks!
You’d be the perfect camping partner for me. I’d have the fire all to myself.
I love campfires! They’re very relaxing to watch.
This is the only reason I pressed play on the video. Your assessment is accurate.
I didn’t even notice, gonna have to watch it again.
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I came into this poised to say “S’mores are dragged down by the marshmallow, which is simultaneously too large and too low-quality to make a truly tasty treat. However, they’re also the thing that make a s’more a s’more.” Possibly use one of the cubic, “elevated” marshmallows in small amounts and you could fix it.
But then I looked at the graham cracker and the mention of a Hershey bar and, well, it’s all bad. Just like “ants on a log” is bad as food, but fun to make. Perhaps if you deconstructed it by making a square of buttery graham cracker crust, melted a layer of dark Belgian chocolate over it [I also vote to spread a bit of halvah on as well], and then topped it a small layer of light, airy marshmallow fluff torched creme’ brulee style, that could be good.
ETA: this take on a s’more is very good, and bite-sized.
“I don’t like bone marrow with my graham crackers” is the correct take.
Have you tried a grilled chocolate sandwich? Much better than a s’more. Use a nice brioche or challah, good shaved chocolate, and salt. Make it up just like grilled cheese. You could add a layer of marshmallow fluff if you wanted it to be more like s’mores.
…I like an old fashioned…& I could kinda see vanilla/chocolate bitters being a sort of ok combo…but the whole fill-the-glass-with-smoke thing seemed overwrought…& it would matter what kind of wood it was but they don’t make any mention of that…they just char what looks like a wooden coaster which seems dubious…& I don’t know in what world that precariously balanced thing qualifies as garnish for a cocktail & not a side of some sort…or possibly a non-liquid chaser?
…all in all I think I’ll stick with the…well… old-fashioned old fashioned
I like the idea of the smoky flavor but wonder if that would actually work? I don’t have chocolate bitters but if I try this I’ll let you know.