The ORIGINAL S’mores Nachos
Create campfire S’mores Nachos on your next camping trip. These dessert nachos can also be made on the grill or in the oven at home.
S’mores are the best! All that melted chocolate and gooey marshmallow combined with graham crackers are just the best camping dessert ever.
Why are S’mores called S’mores?
Have you ever wondered why s’mores are so popular? Obviously, it is the taste! All that chocolate goodness and marshmallow between two graham crackers.
It is the ultimate camping dessert sandwich. This recipe is not handheld, but you can eat it with your hands. It is the most popular post on this blog.
Who Invented S’mores?
Nobody knows exactly when s’mores were invented, but they first appeared in print in a Girl Scout publication in 1927. That credit goes to Loretta Scott Crew, who made ‘some mores’ by the campfire.
Somewhere along the way, it got shortened to s’mores. When you see the name of our blog, you know that we love that play on words!
Grilled S’mores
We love to eat, especially desserts. Who doesn’t? We have created all sorts of camping sweets. There are our S’mores with Peeps, S’mores Dump Cake, and S’mores with Chocolate Frosting, but now we bring you grilled S’mores Nachos. You make these as part of a S’more Charcuterie Board.
For some reason, food tastes better when it is cooked over the campfire. Why is that?
It is something that we have not been able to figure out. We go with it and create new camping recipes that we like to share with you.
Smores Nachos Camping Recipe
For this recipe, you need foil, a foil pan, and your traditional s’more fixings.
These grilled s’mores are cooked over the campfire, on the grill, or in an oven at home.
If you are making these out at the campground and the fire pit does not come with a grate, use a portable one.
We make these s’mores nachos in an 8″x 8″ foil pan. If you have a large family, you will want to make more in a larger pan. Everyone will want more, so maybe even two large pans.
- Use foil pans to make Grilled Nachos, Walking Taco Nachos, Pizza Bread, or Grilled Peach Crisp.
In your pan, layer broken graham crackers, mini marshmallows, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Top with a few regular-sized marshmallows.
We discovered that this recipe is just as good at home on the grill or in the oven.
Cooking Instructions for Smores Nachos
Grilling Instructions: When cooking on a grill, we recommend that you make this recipe in a cast iron skillet. We do not top it with foil when we use this skillet.
We grilled these for about 7 minutes on our cast iron gas grill, but depending on how hot your grill is, it could take longer. Keep a close eye on them to make sure they do not burn.
Oven Baking Instructions: Like with the grill, we recommend making this in a heavy skillet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10+ minutes.
You can get the marshmallows extra crispy by moving them to a rack high in the oven for a minute or two after it has baked. Keep a close eye on the oven so the marshmallows do not burn.
Camping Dessert Nachos
The fun thing about this campfire s’mores in foil pan recipe is that it is very adaptable, not only in how it is prepared but also with the ingredients.
We love to have a Deluxe S’mores Nacho bar with various toppings. All the different options are set out, and we let everyone customize their own pan of nachos.
We love to use caramel bits, mint chips, bananas, peanut butter, strawberry jam, and sprinkles in addition to marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. Just layer the ingredients you want.
Can you think of an ingredient that we left out?
Diana’s favorite way to enjoy these nachos is with pretzel chips, strawberry jam, and caramel bits. Strawberry and caramel are an amazing combination that goes well with chocolate.
These amazing tastes are enhanced with the salt on the pretzels. Look at that gooey goodness!
Can you make Vegan S’more Nachos?
Yes! You can veganize this recipe with the proper ingredients. Start with vegan chocolate chips.
A majority of graham crackers have honey and confectioner’s glaze. Confectioner’s glaze is an additive that is made from beetles. Original, cinnamon, low-fat, Kellogg’s Grahams Crackers, and original Nabisco Grahams are all vegan.
We like vegan marshmallows. We think they have a better consistency after being roasted than traditional marshmallows.
By now, you are sure to be salivating. We hope you enjoy this great camping dessert as much as we do! This recipe is one of our most popular camping recipes.
Happy Campers will also enjoy these other chocolatey camping treats: Cherry Chocolate Lava Cake, Turtle Lava Cake, and Campfire Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Campfire S’mores Nachos
Grilled S'more Nachos are so easy to make over a campfire, on the grill, or even in the oven at home.
Ingredients
- graham crackers
- mini marshmallows
- regular marshmallows
- chocolate chips
Instructions
- Break up graham crackers and spread them in the bottom of your foil pan.
- The number of crackers you use will depend on the size of your pan.
- We use two cinnamon graham crackers in our 8 by 8 in foil pan. We have made this with regular and cinnamon graham crackers, but we like the cinnamon better.
- Sprinkle mini marshmallows on top of the graham crackers.
- Scatter chocolate chip on top of the graham crackers.
- Repeat with another layer of the three ingredients.
- Place more chocolate chips on top along with a few regular size marshmallows.
- Cover the pan with a piece of heavy duty foil, making sure to wrap it tightly around the edges of the pan.
- Place the pan on the grate of a grill or over the campfire. Get grill and oven directions above in the post.
- Like with regular s'mores, we find this grills best over coals as opposed to an open flame.
- Cook until the marshmallows and chocolate melted.
- You can lift a corner of the foil to make sure it's melted, or just use your nose to smell the chocolate.
- Just make sure not to burn it.
- Carefully remove the pan from the fire.
- Take off the foil lid and enjoy.
Notes
Please let us know how your s'mores turn out by leaving a comment or photo here on Pinterest.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 230
Substitute graham crackers for digestive biscuits if you’re from the UK or Australia
Can this be made ahead? Leave on counter or fridge?
Sure, but the graham cracker might get soggy.
Replaced some of the chocolate with Reese Cups!
FANTASTIC IDEA!
I made these with gourmet marshmallows. Cinnamon churro marshmallows and dark chocolate chips…yummy end to a camping trip.
Looks amazing! If I wanted to do this in the oven, at what temperature and for how long should I cook it?
350 degrees for approximately. The oven directions are up in the post.
I am thinking of using teddy grahams instead. And I am on a relay for life team where we host scrapbooking events with meals. I may do these in individual foil cupcake wrappers so they are easier to serve.
Great adaptations!
I’m wanting to cook this in our oven in the foil pan. What degree should I use and for how long?
Oh gosh…I’d guess 325-350 degree oven. Try it for 10 minutes and then peek to see how well it’s done. When the chocolate is melted, I would turn off the oven and remove the foil over the pan to let the marshmallows brown a little if you want.
I just fixed these in my Ninja Foodi. They came out great.
Awesome!! We are making them again this weekend when we camp with friends.
i am from Western Australia, what the heck are Graham Crackers. What could I substitute them with ta.
They are a sweet cracker. I recommend cookie or biscuit that isn’t super sweet.
@MAXINE GUY, I would gladly send you grahm crackers. We love to eat them as a snack by themselves.
@MAXINE GUY, fudge stripe cookies or chocolate chip cookies. Well actually pretty much any cookie
@MAXINE GUY,
They would be like digestive biscuits
How do you serve them? Scoop them out and eat with a fork of use more graham crackers to eat with?
Just like nachos with our fingers, grabbing the crackers. 🙂
These look absolutely amazing, just one question . . . At the end is the nutritional analaysis and it says serves 4 at 78 calories per serving. Is that truly correct, I just cannot see how it could be so few calories with the chocolate and marshmallow . . . . But regardless, it looks yum and I am going to try it.
Robbie, I think the nutrition calculator on the recipe was off. I changed it to one serving, instead of 4, which I believe reflects better.
@letscampsmore, Looking it up, I found there are between 230-300 calories per s’more. This makes sense consideirng all 3 ingredients are sweet.
If I were making them in my oven, how long do I cook it for & at what temperature would you recommend??? Also would putting them out Nader the broiler at the end toast the marshmallows do you think??? I like my marshmallows brown & slightly crispy (not burnt) on the outside, yet melty in the center. It’s such an art to get them right when doing them the traditional way LoL
Jen, you are right…it is an art. In the oven, I would not use foil on top. We have not tried it yet, but I would guess 425 degrees. The type of pan you use will make a difference. It takes longer in a foil pan and shorter in cast iron or stainless.
Yes i did it this way. 225 degrees for
10-12 minutes
Thanks!
Did you leave the foil on top while in the oven?
You can go with or without foil in a conventional oven.
Could these be made in your oven as well?
Absolutely!
Great idea
Thank you!
I absolutely love this ideas. Nachos are the best and dessert nachos are even better! I can’t wait to try these.
Enjoy!
Oh man, smores are the best aren’t they? I love this fun way to make smores over the campfire! Thanks for the idea!
Yes! Our favorite!
I am totally going to make these with my son! We both love s’mores and this is easier than assembling them in the dark!
Definitely less messy!
What a great idea, your S’Mores Nachos look amazing! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen
Thank you, Miz Helen.