When I was in the fifth grade, I convinced my mother to let me join the Girl Scouts. Three things appealed to me about the Girl Scouts: the uniform; the badges and S'mores. We all love to be a part of a team that wears a uniform, whether it's sports, Scouts or cheerleading. We met every Friday so that meant I got to wear the uniform to school. As I collected the badges, my mother and I sewed them onto my sash and my pride in wearing that uniform only increased. I anticipated greatly the upcoming expedition to summer camp.
Dreams of basket weaving, swimming in a clear mountain stream and eating S'mores nightly floated through my head. The cruel reality became apparent the first day of camp. There was no class in basket weaving (we took sewing, which I already knew how to do thanks to my grandmother), the clear mountain stream was a regular old swimming pool and while we had S'mores by a campfire, the drone of mosquitoes superceded the delight of those wonderful treats.
I made January's cake during our second big snowstorm. Here in the South, a big snowstorm is anything over 6 inches. Since we don't have the need for large amounts of snow removal equipment, anything over 2 inches will shut down any city in the South, including ours. Nine inches kept us inside and out of school for five days, thus making it easy to bake the Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Snacking Cake.
Below are the ingredients, assembled on my kitchen countertop.
The cake smelled delicious as it was baking and we couldn't wait to try it. When I took it from the oven, it didn't look too appetizing though. It looked like one of those big cookies you get at a mall here in the US. I perservered and made the frosting.
I didn't have Marshmallow Fluff, however, I did have some homemade marshmallows leftover from Christmas. They melted quite nicely and provided a fine subsitute. This cake tasted MUCH better than it looked (see photo below) and we devoured it in a couple of days. Once again, my husband proclaimed it excellent breakfast fare. Looking forward to warmer days here in the mountains of Appalachia! Jill
I'm glad you enjoyed your one but sorry your scout camp wasn't as idyllic as it should have been!
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ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect time to make this cake- in a snow storm :-)
ReplyDeleteI think I should have melted marshmallows in place of the fluff sinch I don't know what to do with the rest of it. I was opposite of you though and thought it was much prettier than it tasted. ha!
I think I was behind the eight before I started because I am not a fan of s'mores. I did like the cake, but the frosting was too much for me. I agree that the cake was quite flat, but it was tasty.
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