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My sister did an evil thing.  She introduced me to Pinterest.  Was I on the slow boat before discovering this?  Probably.  But now, I have a new excuse to use as a time suck: pinning inspiring ideas and things onto boards that I can drool over later.  Now my goal is to actually do or make some of these inspiring things that I’ve found by other members’ pins.  One of which was to make these warm toasted marshmallow s’mores bars that someone pinned.

If you click on the link you’ll see that it’s a really simple recipe, no doubt.  But my one problem was the idea of using cookie mix because well, we all know that I’m a food snob, and I like to make things from scratch.  Call me crazy, I know – I’m nine months pregnant and shouldn’t be on my feet at all – but I couldn’t resist the challenge (put upon myself of course) of creating these bars from scratch.

So I decided to start on this challenge by creating a cookie base and turned to what I consider my personal bible for all things baked and cooked: Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything” cookbook.  (Yes, you’ve heard me sing its praises before – I love this thing.)  I thought about the finished product and realized that it’s essentially like a deconstructed chocolate chip cookie but with toasted marshmallows on top, so I started with a chocolate chip cookie base.  I followed the Betty Crocker recipe about adding the graham cracker crumbs to stick with the s’mores concept.

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