S’more Ways to Make S’mores Better in Practice Than in Theory

It’s a delicious bit of culinary history that the graham cracker was named after a Presbyterian minister who believed that rich foods caused impure thoughts and deeds. The good Reverend Graham’s chaste cookie would be corrupted in the 1927 book Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts, which included a recipe that added toasted marshmallow and molten chocolate: a s’more.

Unfortunately, the traditional Hershey bars forsake sensuous flavors for chalkiness and one-dimensional sweetness, and the major contributions of the marshmallow are sugar shock and scalded fingertips, thanks to the napalm-like qualities of a half-carbonized glob of goo.