S'mores Cookie Bars

Last summer, with a little coaxing from my mom, I once again offered to make dessert for anyone who wanted me to while in Chelan. Anne and Vicki both took me up on the offer, as did my immediate family. I decided to pick quick and easy recipes for the first two: since Anne and her family were making Mexican on their night, I decided on Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars while Vicki requested my recipe for pizza night - the golden Oreo fudge I'd made for Carly for her golden birthday.

For my immediate family, I decided on a more complicated recipe. The flavor was kinda easy to pick out: since it was the middle of summer, why not s'mores? I went through my s'mores board on Pinterest and eventually decided on S'mores Cookie Bars from Practically Homemade. The weekend before Chelan, I did some prep by crushing up the graham crackers and measuring out the rest of the ingredients. I divided them up into three storage containers: one for the graham cracker crumbs, one for the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder), and one for the sugars. I also packed the remaining non-perishable ingredients (marshmallows, chocolate chips, etc.) with the ingredients for the other two recipes. Once we got there, I bought stuff like eggs and butter when buying my other food for the week.

I was all set ... until I got a text from Lisa the day I was going to make these. She said that Tristan was going to take us all out for ice cream that night (which he does every year one night during Chelan), just in case it affected my dessert plans. Obviously it did but I didn't want to make Tristan feel bad (plus I look forward to that night every year) so I didn't say anything and decided to make these bars when the white chocolate chip blondies were done.

Which took a while since there were many weekends when I wasn't home for lunch on Saturdays so it took until the end of January for me to finish them. I was more than ready to get those containers out of my pantry (and the recipe removed from my bookmark bar).