S'mores Cookie: Trial 1

Fabrication of S'mores Cookie Trial 1.

This beings my efforts to recreate the S'mores Cookie

figure 1.

Procedure:

1. I started with my standard Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.  This can be found here: Chocolate Chip Cookie
2. Graham Crackers were placed on the baking sheets
3. Large spoonful of cookie dough (standard chocolate cookie size portion) was placed upon graham cracker (see figure 3).
4. Cookies placed in oven under standard Cookie-baking conditions: 350°^F
5. Marshmallows were placed on cookies at set intervals during the baking process (see figure 4)

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Results:
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Observations:

• Larger amounts of cookie dough will need to be applied to achieve the average radius of 4.5 cm and fully cover the graham cracker square.
• Marshmallows placed on cookies at Time 0 and Time 5 minutes melted off the cookies.
• Marshmallows placed at Time 12 minutes became gooey, but did not achieve desired toastedness.  This was the group with results closest to our desired objective.
• Marshmallows placed at the start of cooling did not adequately melt.
• Control group (standard chocolate chip cookie, no graham cracker or marshmallows) baked normally.

Conclusions:

Next round I will need to use larger portions of cookie dough per cookie.  Adding marshmallows at the beginning and during cooling did not work well.  I observed that adding the marshmallows after 12 minutes, with ~1 minute to go, gave the desired gooeyness, but lacked toastedness.  Employing another technique (quick broil?) will be necessary to achieve toastedness.

Conclusion: close, but no cigar.