Greetings! I have a camper here this week with a wheat and dairy allergy; we are making s’mores on Friday and when I told the campers that, she asked “what’s a s’more?”
Issue 1: Kid who has never made a s’more! Can’t wait to teach her
I explained that it’s a roasted marshmallow between two graham crackers and chocolate, and she reminded me that she can’t have graham crackers. Asked “can we make them with rice crackers?”
I imagine these won’t taste all that good with rice crackers, does anyone have ideas for substitutions for graham crackers that are wheat, dairy, gluten free… also, I should be able to find vegan friendly marshmallows too, right? I’d love recommendations for brands of stuff that tastes good and will melt appropriately so she can experience real S’mores.
There are GF DF graham crackers. I’d take a trip to your local health food store. There are a ton of GF foods here at Sunflower market and probably Whole Foods is the same. If they don’t have graham crackers substitute with a GF/DF cookie (not rice crackers, yeah, not a tasty combo). As mentioned above, remember to check the chocolate for dairy and gluten too.
I am on an island off the coast of Maine and we have 2 health food stores but not a Whole Foods - hopefully the local ones will carry that brand. Thanks!
I think S’mores would probably still taste good with chocolate, toasted marshmallow, and cardboard. It’s not like the graham crackers “make” the deal here.
Hope you can locate a decent substitute - would be VERY cool to introduce a kid to their first S’mores. : )
You mean 100% cacao? I’m no longer a milk chocolate fan either, I only buy the Lindt 85 or 90%. But I wouldn’t feed that to a kid, it would probably ruin them from chocolate! For campfire s’mores, nothing less than a Hershey’s bar will do.
ML, I work with 6-8 yr olds and we actually get a fair amount of kids who have never made a Smore before! It is way fun to teach them the art of Marshmallow Toasting and S’more Creation.
With this girl I am particularly excited because she is one of my favorite campers (yes I know we’re not supposed to have favorites but we all do
You mean 100% cacao? I’m no longer a milk chocolate fan either, I only buy the Lindt 85 or 90%. But I wouldn’t feed that to a kid, it would probably ruin them from chocolate! For campfire s’mores, nothing less than a Hershey’s bar will do.
Ugh, that stuff is way too bitter for a s’more. And Hershey dark chocolate has milkfat, I believe. I’m leaning toward some Ghiradelli or Lindt 60% cacao.
I went shopping tonight but neither of our health food stores had gluten free graham crackers, or vegan friendly marshmallows, so my next plan of attack is to call some of the companies mentioned above and see if I can get my paws on some.
I am on a mission it will be the perfect gluten-free-vegan-healthy-S’more!
banana boats. take a banana, peel off one section of peel, fill the remaining banana in its peel with all kinds of goodies, like pb chips, choc chips, white choc chips, nuts, raisins, marshmallows (they do make vegan ones). wrap in foil, chuck in fire. it is HEAVEN!. you won’t go back to smores.
I always liked making smores, but never really liked the taste. one camping trip, we got lazy and instead of using hte marshmallow/graham cracker, we used choc chip cookies. Uncle Eddie’s brand makes vegan choc chip cookies, mini ones that come in a bag. It’s like a marshmallow chipwich. soooo good!
I am looking for vegan friendly ones. I’ve seen them somewhere.
