When I was a kid, my parents used to take us camping in Muskegon State Park a couple times a summer. The best part of the trip was the evening campfire when we would spear marshmallows on peeled sticks and make S’mores. If you aren’t familiar with S’mores, it’s very simple:
- Break a graham cracker sheet in half to make two squares.
- Break a Hershey bar in half to make two squares.
- Put a Hershey bar half on a graham cracker half.
- Toast a marshmallow by holding it close to a flame until the outside just turns brown.
- Hold the marshmallow over the chocolate-topped graham cracker, and using another graham cracker half, slide the marshmallow off onto the chocolate. Immediately press the graham cracker half on top to make a “sandwich”.
- Repeat as many times as you want!
Not only are S’mores delicious, but they are an inexpensive way to have a whole lot of fun. I have only met one child in my life who didn’t like S’mores, every other child we have ever invited to join us for S’mores night has been an eager participant.
It’s illegal to have an actual campfire in the backyard in our township, so what we do is build a very small fire in the bottom of our barbecue grill, on top of the coals. We watch the kids very carefully and use long sticks so they don’t have to stand too close to the flames. If you try this yourself, please be very careful and very vigilant around fire!
I’ve been working with Hershey for about a year now, reviewing their seasonal candy lines and helping spread the word about all their delicious varieties of chocolate. So I was THRILLED when a big box arrived a few weeks ago, with a sticker that said inside the box was a way to have affordable summertime fun:
Inside the box was everything we needed for a S’mores party!
As if the marshmallows, graham crackers and Hershey bars weren’t awesome enough, you know what was inside that black zippered tote?
At first glance I thought oh cool, skewers for the marshmallows. And then we got them outside and discovered that not only did each one hold two marshmallows, but they also telescope out to different lengths AND the bottom of the skewer has a collar thing that you turn with your thumb to rotate the skewer! The marshmallows get perfectly toasted on all sides. Totally awesome.
We like to combine S’mores night with grilling-burgers-outside night so the grill is already preheated. While Chris and Nathan went outside to look for thin sticks to start the fire, Ryan and I got everything ready in a big bowl:
Yeah, Ryan “helped” all right:
By the time we got everything ready it was after 9:30 pm and Kaitlyn was wiped out, so I put her to bed first. But don’t worry, she got to snack on leftover marshmallows and graham crackers the next day 
Chris built a nice little fire and we got to toasting:
Chris and Nathan like their marshmallows black on the outside, while Ryan and I go for a nice golden brown. There was enough for us to each have two.
You know, if you hold up your pinkie while eating a S’More, it makes you extra-fancy 
I searched all over Google trying to find the exact rotating, telescoping skewers that Hershey sent me so I could hook you up, but I had no luck. I did find these telescoping marshmallow skewers but they don’t rotate.
I’ll just leave you with one last photo showing you the S’Mores LAYERS OF DELICIOUSNESS:
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