Sometimes simple is the best. This s’more is simple in its ingredients (just 2!) but not simple in its flavors and texture.

And those flavors are perfect for Valentine’s Day! Chocolate dipped fruit is a classic V-Day dessert and one of our favorites has always been real cherries combined with chocolate. So our Cherry Chocolate Chip marshmallow was born! This is no fakey maraschino candied cherry flavoring, but rather real, all-natural Bing cherry goodness in a fluffy bite topped with our signature Belgium chocolate chips.

We combined the Cherry Chocolate Chip Plush Puffs with these super crispy, light as air graham Sweet Crips from 34 Degrees that we found at the Fancy Food Show in January. 34 Degrees is well known for its savory, thin crackers so these are a fun new product. They are great for s’mores because they are only slightly sweet, so the marshmallow brings most of the sweet to the party.

This s’mores recipe makes a tasty and indulgent but VERY light dessert for a romantic Valentine’s Day.

Ingredients (for one s’more):

• One Cherry Chocolate Chip marshmallow from Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows
• 2 crispy, thin cookies, such as Sweet Crisps in graham from 34 Degrees

Place one cookie on a plate. Toast the marshmallow and place on top of the cookie. Top with the second cookie. You don’t need any chocolate because of the chocolate chips in the marshmallow! Romantically easy

For Thanksgiving this year, we had a guest that doesn’t like Pumpkin Pie. “What?” you are asking yourself, “is this person insane?” Yes, yes he is. But we love him anyway, so we made him a pear tart with frangipane (almond paste & butter – yes please!) and an apricot glaze. And it was good too.

This week’s smore is based on that dessert since pears are still in season and plentiful all over this place. It is very reminiscent of the tart but even fresher tasting as the pears aren’t cooked and the cookies crunchy. Big fan of this one.

Ingredients (for one s’more)

• 2 Sydney’s Cinnamon Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows
• A thick slice of pear. I used Bosc pears but any very fresh pear will be great
• 1  almond cookie

Place an almond cookie on a plate. Toast the marshmallows and slide them onto the cookie. Top with the slice of pear and taste winter freshness in a sweet sandwich!

‘Tis the season and there is a LOT of demand for our Peppimint gourmet peppermint marshmallows. They’re yummier than candy canes, but still have that traditional minty flavor. And they’re purty pink too.

So here’s a tasty, pepperminty s’more to inspire your holiday party desserts. Serve already made s’mores or have a make-your-own s’more table but make it special and unique with flavored marshmallows, such as our Peppis!

Ingredients (for one s’more)

• One or two Peppimint peppermint marshmallows from Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows
• 2 one inch squares of your favorite chocolate
• 2 crispy wafer cookies

Place a wafer cookie on a plate and top it with one square of chocolate. Toast the marshmallow and place it on the plated chocolate. Top the marshmallow with the second square of chocolate and finally top it off with the second wafer cookie.

Indulge!

It’s cold outside. So nothing is better than hot chocolate with marshmallows! So, we made a s’more out of it.

Ingredients (for one mug):

• One mug of high quality hot chocolate. We recommend the sipping chocolate from Dove Chocolate Discoveries. But any really good, really rich hot cocoa will do
• 3-4 Peppimint Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows
• One half of a graham cracker crumbled up

Make the hot chocolate per the directions from the cocoa package. Top with 3-4 of the marshmallows (depending on the size of your mug) and sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs on top for taste and texture.

Enjoy and warm up!

How to get your pre-schooler in the October/Halloween/harvest mood when it’s literally 100 degrees outside? You bake of course! We just so happened to have a box mix of “spiced apple bread” and some time on our hands. The house smelled DELICIOUSLY of fall and made me think of colorful leaves, scarves and jackets, holidays and more. I could just barely keep up the facade as long as I didn’t even put one limb outside to get seared by the “unseasonably hot” heat, as the internet weather site called it. The bread was yummy, but put into SCRUMPTIOUS with a Gingerbread Spice Plush Puff on top.

Ingredients (for one s’more)

• Gingerbread Spice marshmallow from Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows
• A half slice of apple bread, gingerbread, pumpkin bread or other similar seasonal bread or cake

Slightly toast the slice of apple bread, just so it’s warm and slightly crisped up, but not too dry and crunchy. Place a half slice of the bread on a plate. Toast the marshmallow over a gas stove and place on top of the half slice. Enjoy open faced or top with the other half to make a sandwich.

We’re really having a lot of fun with our new Fall & Winter marshmallow flavors, Pumpkin Pie and Gingerbread Spice. We made a Pumpkin Pie S’more and now a Gingerbread Spice S’more.

Keep an eye out for more s’mores & other recipes made with Pumpkin Pie marshmallows and Gingerbread Spice marshmallows as well as our seasonal flavors, such as cinnamon marshmallows, caramel marshmallows and peppermint marshmallows!

Ingredients (for one s’more)

• Gingerbread Spice Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallow
• 2 vanilla cookies (I used Trader Joe’s Ultimate Vanilla Wafers)
• A square inch of your favorite milk chocolate

Place the chocolate on one of the vanilla wafers. Toast the Gingerbread marshmallow and place it on top of the chocolate. Top the marshmallow with the second vanilla wafer. Squish and enjoy!

Today is officially the first day of Fall for 2011! Can you feel it? Well, we sure can’t given that it’s in the mid-80s with high-ish humidity in beautiful downtown Burbank where Plush Puff’s factory is. But chillier mornings and evenings are making us think and dream about all the fun of Fall and, always, all the flavors of Fall.

This week we announced that our 2 Fall Special Edition flavors are available online (and for wholesale to your favorite retailers so ask them to order up!). Gingerbread Spice is back and new for this year is the delectable Pumpkin Pie. Gingerbread Spice has been making my morning coffee really great lately and Pumpkin Pie tastes so much like the pie that it makes me grin from ear to ear each time I savor one.

So Pumpkin Pie Smore it is!

Ingredients (for one s’more):

• One Pumpkin Pie Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallow
• 2 graham cracker halves
• A 1″ x 1″ square of milk chocolate

Put the chocolate on one graham half. Toast the pumpkin marshmallow and put it on top of the chocolate. Top with the other graham. Let the chocolate melt for a little, smoosh the sandwich together and dig in.

I’m going to try it again with some whipped cream instead of the chocolate for the real holiday experience. Or maybe in addition to the chocolate. Hmmm….

It’s time for another s’more made with some treats from Michigan. Last time we made one with a Sanders Ice Cream Topping to raging delicious success. This week we made one with one of our Yooper Bars made by Sayklly’s Confectionery and Gifts in Escanaba, MI in the Upper Peninsula – aka the U.P. Get it? One who hails from the U.P. is a Yooper! Sayklly’s has been making yummy things for over 100 years so they know what they are doing.

We got dark chocolate and milk chocolate. We used the dark chocolate for this s’more so we immediately went for a Toasty Coconut marshmallow. Dark chocolate and coconut are a great match. The Yooper bar dark chocolate tasted like dark chocolate brownie mix before it’s baked. Not the dark chocolate we’re used to, but yummy none-the-less.

Note the shape of the U.P. molded into the bar!

Ingredients (for one s’more):

• Two Toasty Coconut Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows
• Two lightly sweet, crispy cookies. We used some rectangular shaped sesame cookies.
• 2-3 chunks of dark chocolate Yooper Bar

Place one cookie on a plate. Toast up the coconut marshmallows and put them on top of the cookie on the plate. Top the marshmallows with the chunks of Yooper Bar. Watch the chocolate melt and begin to get hungry. Top the chocolate with the second cookie to make the sandwich and chomp down!

As mentioned on Facebook/Twitter, about a month ago, some of “Team Plush Puffs” took a family trip to Michigan & Chicago for a family wedding and to visit other family. While there, we were sure to eat some of the treats that part of the mid-west has to offer – frozen custard, cheese curds, Chicago stuffed pizza, pasties and more. And we picked up some good stuff to make s’mores with.

When I was about 11 or so years old, my parents and brother and I went to visit my grandparents outside of Detroit. They had a beautiful home in a tree-filled neighborhood on an acre of grass and greenery filled with birds. They also lived near a Sanders ice cream parlor. The hot fudge from Sanders is still the best I’ve ever tasted. A memorable trip for so many reasons.

So naturally, when we saw some at Greenfield Village in Detroit, we had to buy some. But we got adventurous and got the Cinnamon Pear Caramel Sauce instead of just chocolate. This was a good decision.

We brought it home and made this s’more when my brother visited with his family because I wanted to share some Sanders with him again. Yay for family and yay for caramel sauce!!

Ingredients (for one s’more):

• 1 Caramel Swirl Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallow
• 1 Thin, crispy cookies. I used the Swiss Almond Crunch Cookies from Trader Joes
• 1 A Tbs. of warmed up Sanders Cinnamon Pear Caramel Sauce

Toast the marshmallow, place on top of the cookie. Pour the caramel sauce on top of the marshmallow. Gobble it up. Smile. Wipe the dribble of sauce off your chin. Repeat.

When you get the desire for a small snack, do you ever find yourself asking “Do I want salty or sweet?” Of course, the best answer is always “Both!” This s’more has it all. I used our caramel marshmallow because salted caramels taste good!

Ingredients (for one s’more):

• 1 Caramel Swirl Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallow
• 1 Graham Cracker half
• 1 square of your favorite chocolate (I used 60% cocoa dark chocolate)
• 1-2 (depending on chip size) regular, salty potato chip

Place the graham square on a plate and the chocolate on top of the graham cracker. Toast up the Caramel Swirl Plush Puff and place it on top of the chocolate. Break the potato chips into smaller pieces and place pieces on top of the marshmallow until it’s pretty well covered. The chips act as the top of the smore “sandwich.” Crunch away!