EROM’S: The Reverse S’more
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.
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, really, 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 marshamallows. Finally the ingrediants were assembled and could be 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. 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 the at home version 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.
