("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)
- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone
and you're watching Cooking Stoned.
On today's episode we're gonna make s'mores on a stick.
The reason behind this really,
the inspiration behind this really
is I love to camp.
I love everything about camping.
I love getting out there with nature and hiking,
and getting sweaty and dirty,
and just sort of living like,
I don't know, some sort of neanderthal
for a few days.
There's just something
really cathartic about that experience.
And the best part about it,
or one of the best parts about it,
is when you come back after a full day of
(clears his throat), excuse me,
after a full day of being out in nature,
and you sit around the camp fire,
you've had your dinner,
and you make s'mores.
And there's just toasted marshmallow
and chocolate everywhere.
And you just continue to be a hot mess.
And I really enjoy that for some reason.
So for this year's Halloween,
I wanted to make a recipe that kind of
was an ode to that,
with a little bit less of the mess.
So I'm making s'mores on a stick.
And I think you're gonna like it.
Enjoy.
The first thing we need to do
for making these mini s'mores,
since we don't have a campfire,
is to melt our chocolate.
So you don't need a double boiler,
but you can sort of hack it.
So I have a small sauce pan here.
It's filled with water,
but it's just high enough where the water's
not gonna burn out.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put
a bowl over there,
a metal bowl over the top of it.
It'll heat the bowl, which will melt the chocolate
without burning the chocolate
because if you heat chocolate too quickly...
Let's see there, if you can kinda see that.
If you heat chocolate too quickly,
it's going to get kinda grainy and unpleasant.
So, we're gonna begin by melting our chocolate this way.
So we have our chocolate in there,
and what you're gonna do is just kinda let this
begin to melt.
Like I said, so you add this bowl,
we're kinda doing a hack job of a double boiler here.
The water is not touching the metal bowl,
it's only steaming it.
So you want enough water in your sauce pan...
You can kinda see some of the steam
coming up the edges there.
Like right there, yeah.
So you want enough water in the sauce pan
where the water's not gonna cook down.
You don't wanna burn your pan.
But you wanna heat the chocolate slowly.
The reason that you're doing that,
by heating it slowly,
it won't get grainy.
So you want to slowly melt the chocolate.
And then as it begins to melt,
we're just gonna take a whisk
and whisk it all together.
It smells really good too.
So just let that continue to melt.
Another thing here too is you don't want to
just throw in a whole chocolate bar.
You wanna cut it into chunks.
It'll melt much faster that way.
So the chocolate is nice and melted now.
Now we're gonna coat our graham crackers with
the melted chocolate.
While our chocolate covered graham crackers are cooling,
we're gonna go ahead and prep the surface
for our marshmallows
by covering it in powdered sugar.
It's important that you don't
put the graham crackers with the chocolate
in the refrigerator.
You really want melted chocolate to temper
at a very slow pace.
Putting it in the refrigerator will only
make it grainy and unpleasant.
And it'll just sort of melt when you take it back out.
So we're gonna prep this and get ready
to make our marshmallows while that happens.
Now that we've made our marshmallow cream,
we're gonna go ahead and just
spread it out here.
We wanna spread this out
so it's about a half inch thick.
So using a greased pastry knife,
we're just gonna cut our marshmallows
into the same size as our chocolate covered
graham cracker crusts.
The reason you grease the knife
is so the marshmallows won't stick to it.
You just want it lightly greasy.
You don't wanna cover it
in shortening, or anything like that.
So just cut them into equal rows here.
Now that the chocolate has set,
which only takes about an hour or so,
we're gonna cut our graham crackers
into eight equal pieces,
which luckily enough,
graham crackers come with all these little lines
to help you do that.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and cut them down.
Now probably the most frustrating part of this experience is
building these little s'mores.
It helps if you wet your hands.
You don't wanna grease it
like you did the knife.
But just compile marshmallow between two crackers
like a regular s'mores.
And luckily enough the marshmallows
are sticky enough that they'll just stay together.
After you make the sandwiches, you're just gonna,
not the sandwiches, but the s'mores,
you're just gonna pierce each one
with a stick.
And then there you go.
S'mores on a stick.
I wanted to point out that you can add that
campfire experience by torching,
or not torching, but maybe toasting
your s'more on a stick right before you eat it.
Just safely take a cooking torch to it,
kinda brown each side.
There you go.
How lovely is that?
("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)