Learning how to make traditional smores as a kid such a fun summer kids’ activity or fun family activity for fall! Get the original s’mores ingredients recipe for fun campfire foods, summer backyard bbq parties, outdoor birthday party foods, or even a fun summer backyard campout.
How To Make Traditional S’mores Homemade Over A Campfire
Learning how to make smores is kind of a rite of passage for summer activities or fall cookouts, don’t you think? Add these sweet treats to your fun outdoor activities this year.
Mastering the Art of the Perfect Traditional S’mores Over A Fire
How To make S’mores Step by Step:
- Break a graham cracker in half. Place the two pieces on a plate.
- Place a milk chocolate square on top of one of the graham cracker halves.
- Roast your marshmallow to the desired doneness. (Some people like their smores marshmallows likely toasted brown and some people like their marshmallows blackened.)
- Place your toasted marshmallow on top of the graham cracker chocolate square side. Using the empty graham cracker, carefully slide your toasted marshmallow off the marshmallow roasting sticks onto the chocolate side.
- Place graham cracker on top of toasted marshmallow and push down a little.
- Eat immediately!
(see full recipe instructions and free printable recipe card below)
What are S mores made of?
In case you’ve never made s’mores, it’s super easy and they’re a great dessert treat to make with kids or for cookout party foods.
S’mores ingredients are just three things…
S mores Ingredients
- Graham crackers
- Marshmallows
- Chocolate bar
(Yep! That really is it for the basic recipe ingredients, but some people use other things, too.)
What crackers are best for smores?
The best crackers for smores (and most traditional s’more recipes) are graham crackers. Stick with the name brand graham crackers (like Honey Maid) to give you that extra crunch with your s’mores treat. It will also give you a sturdy cracker.
However, you can try other non-traditional smores recipes like Club crackers, Ritz crackers, and even cookies like Oreos and chocolate chip cookies!
I have a full list of creative smore ideas below!
ALSO TRY MORE S’MORES RECIPES (S’MORE THREE WAYS!):
How To Make S’mores In The Microwave
How To Make Sheet Pan Smores In The Oven
How To Make S’mores Without Graham Crackers
You can get creative and make s’mores out of anything (and they’ll still be yummy). If you’re wondering how do you upgrade s mores, check out these ideas!
What can I use instead of graham crackers for s mores?
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Saltine crackers
- Ritz crackers
- Club crackers
- Macarons
- Rice Krispie Bars (for s’mores rice krispie treats!)
- Pecan Sandie cookies
- Brownies
- Belvita Breakfast Biscuits
- Pretzel Crisps
- Butter cookies
- Nutter Butter cookies
- Keebler Chocolate Covered Deluxe Grahams
- Keebler Fudge Striped Cookies
- Small pancakes (for s’mores pancakes)
- Ice cream cones (filled and cooked on the fire for s’mores cones)
You can use almost anything to make s’mores cookies!
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What is the best chocolate for S mores?
Milk chocolate is usually the best chocolate for s’mores because it melts easily. However, if you don’t mind smores with chocolate that holds it’s form and doesn’t melt as easily, try dark chocolate or any of your favorite chocolate candy bars!
What goes well with S mores?
Pair your smores recipe up with:
- Hot chocolate
- Chocolate milk
- Strawberry dipping sauce
- Bananas
- Strawberries
- Nutella
- Peanut butter
- Salted caramel sauce
- Brownies
- Blondie brownies
FROM OUR SISTER SITE, ALSO CHECK OUT MORE CAMPING FUN: The Ultimate Guide to Camping with Kids
OK!
Onto the smores desserts recipe!
How To Make Campfire Traditional S’mores
S’more are fun to make because first you get to roast the marshmallows (which usually includes a campfire) and then you have an easy dessert to eat!
BEST RECIPE TIP EVER: We love these telescoping roasting sticks as the best sticks to use for roasting marshmallows and you can even use them for hotdogs, too!
How To Make Traditional Smores
Ingredients
- 4 sheets Graham Crackers
- 2 Hershey Chocolate Candy Bar
- 4 Large Marshmallows
Instructions
- Carefully break apart the graham crackers so that they form squares. (You should have 8 total squares.)
- Break apart or cut chocolate bars into square pieces. (You should have 4 squares of chocolate.)
- Before roasting the marshmallows, place a row of graham crackers on a plate and then place one piece of chocolate on top of each graham cracker square. Now you've prepped the bottom of the smores and are ready to roast your marshmallows (next step)!
- Place marshmallows on the roasting sticks (one or two on each stick, depending on what kind of stick you are using). Carefully roast over the top of the fire, turning the stick the entire time so that the marshmallows are roasted evenly.
- With the marshmallow still on the roasting stick, place it on top of the prepared graham cracker bottoms and chocolate (from Step 3). Then, using another graham cracker square, carefully slide off the marshmallow from the roasting stick onto the chocolate. Place the graham cracker square on top and lightly press down.
- Enjoy the gooey smore!
Nutrition
Nutrition Note
Nutrition calculations are approximate. If you're following a special diet, please calculate your own nutrition values.
RECIPE AND READ: How To Make Smores with Scaredy Squirrel
This Makes A Fun Camping Study Unit for Kids Or Camp Kids Activities!
We decided to pair up our smores with the book Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping by author and illustrator Melanie Watt.
If you’re not familiar, Scaredy Squirrel is a fabulous little squirrel who is afraid of, well, everything (and had a lot of OCD).
In this book, Scaredy Squirrel decides to go camping for a very unique reason… so that he can watch camping on television and not have to deal with all the scary stuff outdoors — including the Three Little Bears and zippers. (Yep, zippers.)
But, to plug in his television, Scaredy Squirrel needs to stretch an extension cord from his tree and across the campground to the only available outlet.
As you can imagine, along the way across the campground Scaredy Squirrel learns a thing or two, including that the outdoors may not be as scary as he thinks—and learns how to roast marshmallows (just like we need in our smores recipe!).
If you’ve never experienced the books by author and illustrator Melanie Watts, you are in for a treat!
She writes (and illustrates) them like a hysterical how-to guide.
You won’t be disappointed!
Listed Book Age Range: 4-8 years
The book, our camping printable for kids, and the s’mores recipe makes a great unit study for homeschool, camp crafts, or classroom project, too!
IMPORTANT: It goes without saying that if you’re working around a campfire then you’ll want to keep a really close eye on the kids. You may even be more comfortable helping them roast the marshmallows and then allowing the kids to assemble their own s’mores.
ALSO TRY THIS DESSERT RECIPE: Fair-Style Air Fryer Oreos
I hope you enjoy learning how to make traditional smores for your kids!
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Thanks for the great step by step, easy for kids to understand recipe . It is good to know all the different ways to make smores!
I hope you have fun with them, Jamie!