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[sabotabby]

I'm not saying that my life is awesome and you should want to be like me, but here are pictures of a S'mores pie that lienne, cupric_acetate, and I baked yesterday:





It was about the most awesome thing I have ever put in my mouth.

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[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Recipe?

[sabotabby]

It was improvised from a recipe for brownie tarts that lienne had. The gist is:

Graham crumb crust, pre-baked.

The brownie filling has semi-sweet chocolate, flour, brown sugar, two eggs, vanilla extract, butter, cinnamon, and cloves in it. You melt the chocolate and butter together in a microwave, wait until it's lukewarm, then mix it into the other stuff until brownieness is created. That goes in the pre-baked crust and gets baked for about a half an hour at 325°.

Then you take it out, put some chocolate shavings on top, and smear marshmallow fluff over the top. (I was pleased to discover that marshmallow fluff is actually a thing I can eat!) Sprinkle more cinnamon on top. Turn the oven onto broil and stick it back in for a few minutes until things start to turn brown but before they turn black.

lienne will have a more accurate description of the quantities of ingredients involved.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I was pleased to discover that marshmallow fluff is actually a thing I can eat!

Unfortunately, vegans can't eat marshmallow fluff because of the egg whites in it; fortunately, there's Suzanne's Ricemellow Creme.

Also, there are finally a few versions of honest-to-god vegan marshmallows that beat the pants off Campfire™ marshmallows any day. Dandies™ from Chicago SoyDairy are the clear winner in verisimilitude, with a shape, texture, and even size perfect for toasting. Sweet and Sara makes a denser, cube-shaped marshmallow which is dreamy; they have a vegan s'mores confection about the size of a Scooter pie that's amazing—and also available in peanut butter flavor!

Vegans like junk food too; this recipe can and will be veganized.

[sabotabby]

Oh, it can be totally veganized. We didn't bother because I'm not vegan and also didn't have time to pick up Sweet and Sara's cinnamon and pecan marshmallows.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Ingredients for the brownie part:

1/3 cup flour
1/8 tsp salt
4 oz unsweetened chocolate (we used semi-sweet)
1/2 cp butter
1 1/4 cp packed light brown sugar (we used demerara)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract (we probably used more than this because cupric_acetate doesn't believe in measuring the vanilla)
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Our own addition: about 1/8 tsp cloves and 1-2 tsp cinnamon (we didn't measure those either)

Mix the flour and salt together, nuke the chocolate and butter until they melt (stir as appropriate), wait until the resulting bowl of deliciousness is lukewarm, whisk in the sugar, eggs, vanilla, and then stir in the flour. We added the spices at this point but you're probably better off stirring them into the flour before you add it. this is also when you put the chocolate chips in.

pour the delicious goo into your pre-baked crust and bake it for half an hour at 325 F, until you can stab it with a toothpick and it won't bleed. optionally, shave another ounce of chocolate on top (I think I'd skip this if I did it a second time). as Sabs directed, cover it in marshmallow fluff and broil until said fluff is browned but not charred. we sprinkled more graham crumbs on top first but they are what made those ugly black char marks so you might want to skip that too.

and then you have the most delicious of pies!

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

This is easily veganized—just use egg replacer or ground flaxseed and water in place of the eggs, and margarine in place of the butter.

And I don't believe in measuring the vanilla either.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

:3

[sabotabby]

THE BEST.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I AM HONOURED TO HAVE PUT DELICIOUS THINGS IN YOUR MOUTH i mean what

[nichtsda.livejournal.com]

Hooray for delicious things to put in one's mouth.

I know your life isn't easy so I wouldn't say I want to be you, but you have certain qualities I don't have so much of that I often admire. There are some respects in which I was more like you. You don't make it look easy by any means -- I definitely understand that it's not -- but you make it look worthwhile.

[sabotabby]

Aww. You make me blush. Especially considering how you are far more talented and awesome than I am.

[misfratz.livejournal.com]

I've tried to think of something coherent to say about this for ages, but all my brane can come up with is "WANT". I suppose I could try and make it, but I dunno if we have marshmallow fluff over here...

[sabotabby]

I'm surprised that it exists. I didn't know about it. I had honestly reached age 32 without realizing that it was a thing in the world. It's like a jar full of sabotabby hyperactivity.

[misfratz.livejournal.com]

I have now been round like 80% of the shops in Edinburgh and not found any, though I have been told that it is sometimes available. TBH I can live with nationalised healthcare but no marshmallow fluff as a fair tradeoff but if the Tories fuck up the NHS I am straight to land of fluff!

PS get well soon! Or at least weller? Or less sicker? I dunno what is most likely, but breathing problems are evil and should be stopped.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

That looks awesome. I don't suppose there's any chance of something akin to that turning up at a gaming session in the near future? :-)

OTOH, my vegan cupcakes book does include a S'Mores cupcake recipe. But I don't think it's really quite as decadent as that looks.

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It possibly could. Not next weekend, though, given how jam-packed my schedule is.

I am amused at the thought of Doktor Fritz presenting S'Mores pie to the Century Club and insisting that no, of course it's not poison-flavoured.

[ironed_orchid]

That looks amazing.

[sabotabby]

It really was.