With summer upon us I’ve been thinking about various outdoor activities that I cannot wait to be apart of after being stuck inside various buildings and establishments all winter long. Barbe-ques instantly spring to mind. The smell of the charcoal cooking the raw meat; hamburger, hot dogs and chicken, oh my! I’ve also given much thought to another summer activity that involves fire and food: camping, namely the campfire.
Now while an enlarged open flame such as a campfire isn’t as controlled and easy to cook on as say, a grill, it has a certain charm to it that a grill just cannot hope to duplicate as far as cooking goes. By that I mean, of course, the S’more.
Everyone knows how to make the conventional S’more. Get a marshmallow, put it on a stick, roast it over an open fire and then stick it between two graham crackers and a piece of chocolate. Easy, no? Sure, but recently I thought to myself, “Isn’t that quite plain? How could one spice up a S’more?”
Then it hit me: reverse it! Reverse the S’more. Instead of a normal graham cracker, substitute a chocolate graham cracker. Forget the milk chocolate, get some white chocolate! While you’re at it why not throw out that plain old white marshmallow and put in a nice big chocolate one? That’s when I knew I was on to something special.
Something I like to call, “The EROM’S.”
(See what I did there?)
Now of course the first thing anyone needs to do when they come up with a recipe is to get together their ingredients.
Finding chocolate graham crackers and white chocolate was not a hard task, but finding chocolate marshmallows?
Damn near impossible.
Every store in the area and not a single one carried chocolate marshmallows; just plain old white ones. With no where else to turn to I went online to see what I could find.
Apparently Jet-Puffed, one of the most recognizable national brands, doesn’t even have chocolate marshmallows. Wow, way to drop the ball on that one.
Unless you want to buy it in a small variety pack and/or special “Swirl Mallows” but I wanted pure chocolate! Was that too much to ask? I mean, this seems like a money maker.
Luckily I came across this website called “Laura’s Candy“, which specializes in flavored marshmallows. and purchased myself a package of their dark chocolate marshmallows. Finally the ingredients were brought together to make the Erom’s a reality!
Standard process, really. It’s all the same except for the ingredients.
Well, technically, they are the same just reversed.
You know what I mean.
Put the mallow on one side of the graham and the chocolate on the other side of the graham.
Ideally this should be done outside, in a campfire, but if you’re doing this at home than I recommend putting this concoction into your microwave for about 30 seconds. Maybe less depending on your microwave. I put this thing in for 30 seconds on my own and the damn marshmallow ballooned out of proportion.
There was a bit of spill-over but nothing too serious. Then again, what’s making a S’more (or Erom’s) without a little mess? Of course, who cares about mess when the real point of this article is to ask the question, “How does it taste?”
Well, I can tell you here and now that it is quite delicious and all together unique. Certainly not like a S’more at all. In fact, if I had to say that it’s taste resembled anything I would have to say that it tastes like an Oreo. A big crunchy, gooey, melty, sticky Oreo.
I don’t know about you, but that’s heaven right there:
