These crunchy peanut butter s’mores cookies are a candy, salty, and gooey twist on a campfire traditional. I completely LOVE a great s’extra, and also you wager if we’re having a campfire within the yard that there can be s’mores roasting happening. So, after I got down to create these cookies, I knew I wanted to incorporate chocolate and mini mallows. Now you’ll be able to take pleasure in s’mores year-round, too 🥰
These s’mores cookies are made completely crunchy because of rice krispies, gooey from the mini marshmallows, and decadently chocolate-y from semi-sweet chocolate chips.
- These cookies are chewy AND crispy 😋
- They’ll simply be made gluten-free by utilizing licensed GF quick-cooking oats.
- Freezes nicely, so you’ll be able to retailer them for later.
- Toddler accepted 🙌🏻 🙌🏻
Important Components
- Fast-cooking oats: be at liberty to make use of licensed GF oats to make these cookies fully GF! In any other case, any quick-cooking oats model will work.
- Drippy peanut butter: be sure you’re utilizing drippy all-natural peanut butter for these cookies! I like to recommend Smuckers or Good and Collect.
- Rice Krispies: folding rice krispies into the dough provides these cookies a pleasant CRUNCH.
- Chocolate chips: I choose semi-sweet chocolate chips, however milk chocolate may even work simply wonderful. You may as well chop up Hershey’s chocolate squares for an excellent traditional s’mores look.
- Mini marshmallows: mini mallows are the proper bite-size for these cookies. They develop into ooey gooey if you bake ’em 😋
My Professional Cookie Baking Suggestions 🍪
This cookie dough is fairly sticky, so I discover that it helps to moisten your palms earlier than rolling the cookie dough into balls. In case your palms are nonetheless too sticky, you’ll be able to rinse them in between rolling the dough balls.
These cookies will unfold just a bit bit when baking, so when you don’t press them down barely earlier than baking, you’ll find yourself with dome-shaped cookies.
To make these cookies all completely spherical, use a big cup and place the cup the wrong way up over the cookie after baking (when the cookies are nonetheless heat). Transfer the cookie round in a round movement to type the proper circle.
Let Cool, Then Get pleasure from and Save the Relaxation
Preserve these cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 5 days, ensuring they absolutely cool earlier than storing.
Completely! These cookies will preserve within the freezer for as much as 3 months if saved in an hermetic container.
Merely enable the cookies to chill fully, after which retailer in an hermetic container (giant Ziplocs work nice for this!), and write the date you made the cookies + the identify of the cookies on the bag earlier than inserting within the freezer.
Thaw these cookies at room temperature in a single day, or when you’re in a pinch for a cookie proper now, take away from the freezer and place a cookie within the microwave for 1 minute on defrost, or till it’s chewy and scrumptious.
Time for the Subsequent Batch
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First, preheat the oven to 350ºF and spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
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Subsequent, mix melted butter and brown sugar till there aren’t any lumps. Then, add maple syrup, egg, peanut butter, and vanilla and blend once more.
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Add salt, quick-cooking oats, and baking soda and blend till every little thing is mixed. Add in chocolate chips, rice krispies, and marshmallows. Combine yet one more time.
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Refrigerate dough for 20 minutes to set.
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Scoop 2 tablespoons of batter into your palms and type it right into a ball. Place it onto the cookie sheet and barely press right down to type a cookie form. The batter will really feel a bit moist, however they are going to be so tender and chewy when achieved baking!*
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Repeat the method above till you’ve match 6 cookies in your baking sheet.
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Bake cookies at 350ºF for 11-14 minutes or till they start to show golden brown.
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Take away cookies and let cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet earlier than transferring to a wire rack to proceed cooling for no less than 20 minutes to agency up. To make all of them completely spherical, use a big cup. Place the cup over the cookie and transfer the cookie round in a round movement to type the proper circle.
- Cookie dough – the cookies will unfold just a bit bit when baking. In the event you don’t press them down, you’ll get dome-shaped cookies.
- It’d assist to barely moisten your palms earlier than rolling the cookie dough and washing your palms in-between balls as a result of the dough is fairly sticky.
Energy: 350 kcal, Carbohydrates: 39 g, Protein: 7 g, Fats: 20 g, Fiber: 3 g, Sugar: 25 g
Diet data is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.
Images: photographs taken on this publish are by Erin from The Wood Skillet.