The kids do campfire cone s'mores sometimes when we are at the lake. Not quite as messy as traditional smores and you can vary the ingredients a bit more like using various candies like Reese's or Rolos instead of just chocolate.

Campfire cone s'mores

I like the real thing, but not having that, I make it in my oven on a small pizza pan: one graham cracker, one square of Hershey's next, and one marshmallow on top; pop in a hot oven on broil for a few minutes... watching carefully... and eat. Usually one or two solve the craving.

Never heard of wrapping them and placing them in the coals but it makes sense as the chocolate never seems ti melt well.

I went on one GS cookout. I was put in charge of the centerpiece. 🙄 We had s’mores for dessert. Like FOAS, no wrapping them and placing in the coals. The chocolate was melted as much as it was going to melt by the hot marshmallow. The graham crackers were still crispy. DD tried to make them for the grands. They would have nothing to do with them.

We've always had them just like your sappy movie, never have seen one heated. Girl Scout camp, Y camp, family camping trips ;) It's been many years since I've eaten a s'more (not a real marshmallow fan as an adult) but they still seem to be a children's treat so we buy the ingredients and let the children in our groups make them at the beach, lakeside fires.

I also never have heard of or seen a s'more wrapped in foil and put on the coals. Always roasted/toasted marshmallow, hopefully not charred, put between the crackers with the chocolate. The marshmallow is piping hot, gooey, melty and melts the chocolate just enough. I wouldn't like the graham cracker toasted at all or soft and I like the chocolate to not be completely melted. Prefer freshly opened crackers so they are extra fresh and crispy which they sometimes aren't if they've been opened even a day or two at the beach.

I'm not sure why, but graham crackers were never a farorite of mine - although I do recall having them for breakfast roughly broken up and soaked in milk. I doubt I've had a graham cracker in 60 years. My favorite Girl Scout camp treat were bananas that we'd make on the hot, fading coals. We'd partially peel one length of the banana, stuff it with pieces of chocolate bars and torn up marshnallows, pull the peel back over the top and set them in the coals until we had a gooey mess...

ooooo... seagrass, that sounds really good!

The only way I ever had s'mores were on saltines. For some reason no adult ever seemed to have grahams. Or, maybe, it's a Nebraska thing. I' don't know, but it was as an adult that I first had s'mores on grahams.

We did graham crackers growing up, but my MIL converted me to chocolate covered cookies. Her go to cookie is fudge strips. Toast your marshmallows and put it between two cookies. I'll use just about any cookie with chocolate on it I have. Had a spur of the moment smore party with my SIL family so I just grabbed random bits and bobs (can I use that english term to apply to food? I think i can... anywhoo) she commented on the fancy cookies. I'm glad she noticed that and not all the half-eaten bags :)

Lonejack, the cones are interesting, especially for those who want more candy. They don't drip hot goo from the bottom? The only sugar cones I remember that didn't drip were drumsticks where they put a chocolate plug in the bottom.

I think they usually use the waffle cones rather than sugar cones. I've never noticed them dripping hot goo but then I've never had one myself (beer and sweets don't mix IMO!). They usually wrap them in foil and place them in the gas grill rather than hot coals.

Ah! I'm treat deficient, I've only ever had the waffle cones they make while you stand there, with a spoon for the ice cream. I'm guessing for cook outs it's a premade thing with a tighter roll and bottom,

A lot of these variations sound better than the original! Since the movie, I've been trying to remember what else we made/ate on the occasion I first saw s’mores. I brought my shortbread cookies to get signed off. I can see the park in the mountains and one of the troop leaders, and the smores and the barbecue pit. I know we cooked a dinner, but remember absolutely nothing about it! Just the s'mores. I didn't really like them, so other than being faced with some oddities in the last 10 years, like s’mores pie and s’mores ice cream, both of which were edible but pretty bad, I haven't really considered the subject since... The striped shortbreads sound good!

Eww! Now having grandkids, I suppose we will eventually have to make these!

As a girl scout, I was pissed off that we didn't go camping, fishing and all that stuff! We slid on the multipurpose room floors in our socks and did songs and plays!

I digress! My S'more "recipe" was always to toast the marshmallow just to the point of catching on fire (or occasionally catching on fire if you weren't vigilant) and squish the crackers, chocolate and marshmallow together, creating the perfect mix of yuk!

I will school my grandkids in proper s'mores making, but maybe not eat any!

Right on....no other way. Open fire, marshmallows on a green stick, couple graham crackers and a hershey bar.

We’re not graham cracker fans so use 2 Keebler Fudge Stripe cookies with a hot roasted marshmallow between. Perfect amount of chocolate, less mess.

Sorry for the giant picture?

Hmmmmm. I kinda like this idea!

Ran into this thread again, so I thought I should add something I've figured out. I was totally perplexed by the idea that a hot marshmallow would melt a cold chocolate bar. Finally, it dawn! Our evenings tend to be cold and dank, for sure in Fall or Spring, when our Girl Scout cookouts were, but even in high Summer it's often cold and dank. Many places it's warm enough that the chocolate bars are already a little soft before they meet the marshmallow. Big difference! And the marshmallow would stay warmer longer too. When our s'mores came out of the coals, they were merely gooey, not full on melted, and I can well imagine a softer Summer bar going gooey with a good hot marshmallow.

I've never heard of wrapping and throwing in the coals either(camp, girl scouts, or otherwise) ... that must be a regional thing. We always just toasted the marshmallows however one liked (I liked mine toasted gently until lightly golden all around, or as much all around as could be managed without the marshmallow falling off the stick, others would just light theirs on fire and blow them out.), then you take your marshmallow to the graham/chocolate station and use them to pull the marshmallow off the stick.

Banana boats, like seagrass describes, were also definitely a thing around here. We'd do them in the oven, too.

To clarify, we toasted the marshmallows just like the rest of you, before the s’mores went in the coals! Both toasted tO falling off, and set on fire, but you had to toast well before fire or the inside wouldn't be gooey. They were hot! Just not hot enough to melt the chocolate. I don't know if wrapping and putting in the coals was a suggestion in the troopleaders' handbook, or if it was invented by them as a way to make it work. I do know we were wearing jackets and hats.

Hmm, never saw this the first time - perhaps because I've never been a fan of s'mores?

Perhaps the foil wrapped version helps keep kids from getting burned?

I am not a fan of s’mores, never have been but I do like chocolate and I do like marshmallows —but really dislike rocky road ice cream. Go figure…lol

Always liked chocolate covered marshmallows, but not the ones with the cookie base - I think it's a texture thing.

Carol, you could be right, but I don't think so. We did all the other stuff ourselves to get tasks for our cooking badges signed off. We also put our own bundles into the coals. The leaders did the actual handling of the fire, and probably pulled them out (though I don't remember that part specifically).