Welcome to recipe #1 of Oat Week – 4th of July Edition! This post is sponsored by my wonderful friends over at Bob’s Red Mill – we’re using their Gluten Free Oat Flour for these Gluten Free Vegan S’mores!
It’s Oat Week again!! Am I dreaming?! This is shaping up to be one heck of a summer, friends!
Especially because we now have s’mores!! I’m so freakin’ excited about this one!
Truth be told, I’m a huge s’mores fan. That melty marshmallow, that rich chocolate, and those cinnamony graham crackers. I can’t even tell you how much I loved s’mores as a kid. I’m not that much of a camping, outdoorsy type (I could never get behind the idea of eating and sleeping with the bugs), so I barely even had s’mores growing up. But I just remember being obsessed with s’mores whenever I got the chance to have one!
I was recently telling Mark about my love affair with this dessert, but he had the strangest look on his face while I was talking. When I was done, he asked me to say “S’mores” one more time. I did, and he started laughing.
TURNS OUT I’ve been saying “S’mores” as “Some-mores” for my entire life. I made a one-syllable word into two.
Oy. Oh well. Regardless of how you say “S’mores,” I can nearly guarantee you’re gonna LOVE my rift on them.
It all starts with my play on a graham cracker. I used just a simple combination of Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Oat Flour, almond flour, coconut oil, cinnamon, maple syrup, and molasses. Mark, a self-proclaimed graham cracker efficinato, loved them. The dough is a little wet, but after they’re baked, they crisp up nicely around the edges thanks to the oat flour! They still have a bit of chew in the middle, which I love and prefer with the soft interior ingredients, but if you’re a crunch graham fan, simply bake them for a minute or two longer.
I decided to sprinkle some cinnamon-coconut sugar on the tops of one batch, and while they tasted delicious, they looked a little…weird. Not unappetizing in the least, just not very pretty. So if taste > looks, I highly suggest you going the “sprinkle” route.
Next up! MARSHMALLOW FLUFF. Making this the perfect you-don’t-need-a-campfire-to-make-these s’mores! This marshmallow fluff is made vegan and refined sugar free thanks to a very special (and, admittedly, bizarre) ingredient: aquafava. I used aquafava (otherwise known as the water in a can of chickpeas) about a year ago with this recipe, and I was completely and totally blown away at how much it tastes like actual marshmallow fluff when mixed with a liquid sweetener and vanilla extract. It’s so crazy, I know. But guys, I’m telling you. This aquafava marshmallow fluff is the real deal!!
Now for some chocolate. I have had a full-on addiction to the Organic Dark Chocolate from Trader Joe’s recently (it’s the same stuff I used in these!!), so I wanted to use it here. Because our marshmallow fluff isn’t hot like a marshmallow right off the campfire, our chocolate needs to be melty, ooey, and gooey before adding it to our s’more creation. Pro tip: if you wanted these s’mores to be truly refined sugar-free, you can totally sub the dark chocolate for this chocolate fudge sauce!
And take it to someone who knows, you’ll need to stuff these a lot less than you think. I piled on a little too much marshmallow fluff on my first s’more and it was a complete and total mess.
But if it wasn’t the most delicious mess I’ve ever had to deal with, I don’t know what was.
S’mores in the comfort of your own living room. Now that’s an idea I can get behind.
PrintGluten Free Vegan S’mores
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 8 s'mores
Ingredients
- THE GRAHAM CRACKERS
- 1/2 cup Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Oat Flour
- 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp. almond flour
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 3 Tbsp. coconut oil, melted
- 1 Tbsp. molasses
- 1 Tbsp. maple syrup
- optional: 1 Tbsp. coconut sugar and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, mixed
- THE MARSHMALLOW FLUFF
- 1/2 cup aquafava (the water drained from 1 14-oz. can chickpeas)
- 1/4 cup honey or maple syrup
- pinch cream of tartar
- splash pure vanilla extract
- THE CHOCOLATE
- 1.5 oz. vegan chocolate, melted (I used 73% cacao)
Instructions
- For the graham crackers: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Mix oat flour, almond flour, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Make sure to remove most of the almond flour clumps in the process.
- Add melted coconut oil, molasses, and maple syrup to a small bowl, and mix to combine.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix to combine. The dough will be wet. Set in the fridge for 10 minutes to set.
- After 10 minutes, measure out 1-Tbsp.-sized portions of dough onto a baking sheet, shaping each into a flat square with your hands. Sprinkle with coconut sugar/cinnamon mixture if desired.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes, or until the edges are deeply brown*. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, and then move to a cooling rack to continue cooling.
- For the marshmallow fluff: Add aquafava, honey/maple syrup, cream of tartar, and vanilla to a stand mixer (or a bowl with a hand mixer), and mix until stiff peaks form, 5-10 minutes.**
- Assemble your s’mores: Spoon some marshmallow fluff onto one graham cracker, and spoon chocolate onto another graham cracker. Sandwich together and devour.
Notes
*The graham crackers still have a bit of chew in the middle, which I love and prefer with the soft interior ingredients, but if you’re a crunch graham fan, simply bake them for a minute or two longer. Just be sure to keep an eye on them to be sure the bottoms don’t burn!
**You’ll definitely have some marshmallow fluff leftover, so you can put it in an air-tight container in the fridge. The ingredients will separate in the fridge, but you can simply re-whip it in your stand mixer/with your hand mixer, and it’ll be as good as new!
A very special thank you goes to Bob’s Red Mill for sponsoring this post and for supplying me with some of their delicious gluten free products that I love for this recipe! All opinions are my own.
I can get on board with these some-mores any day ;)
Ha! Some-mores should definitely be a thing.
Drooling. And it’s only 9:30 AM but I ALWAYS want s’mores! :)
Same!! There’s just something about this combo that I just LOVE.
Okay so we don’t get graham crackers or marshmallow fluff down in NZ, so I’ve never had a real s’more before! I can’t wait to try the marshmallow fluff because that seems insane that it could be made from chickpea juice ;)
Oh do it, Megan!! I’m amazed at how much it tastes like the real stuff!
Those graham crackers look so soft and fluffy – I’m not a fan of hard, crispy cookies (why I never liked Oreos!) so these are more my style. And that chocolate drip OMG – I’m drooling.
They’re crispy and just a tad bit soft – the best of both worlds!! :)
First of all— you had me at homemade grahams! I have a strange obsession with all things ginger/molasses, so I’m seriously excited about these :)
SAME. Ginger/molasses is a newfound FAV of mine!!
These look AMAZING! I actually have a jar of aquafaba in the fridge after making another batch of my cheesy chickpea bites so this might be the thing I make with it!
Thank you so much, Kristy!! I hope you can give these a try!
I’m very much an outdoorsy girl, but I can definitely trade the bugs for this indoor deliciousness. I’m diggin’ GF grahams, they look so easy!
Indoor s’mores > outdoor s’mores. Always ;)
I’ve been hearing a lot about aquafava, but I’m so scared to try it!? Doesn’t it taste like chickpeas or have a savory taste? I’m going to end up giving it a go of course, but I’m nervous!
I was the SAME way!! With enough honey and some vanilla, it definitely doesn’t taste like chickpeas! Try it, Gretchen. You’re going to LOVE it :)
I’ve had vegan s’mores before and they’re so good but vegan marshmallows aren’t exactly easily found around here. So I’m definitely adding this to my to make list ASAP.
Thanks, Giselle!! I hope you give it a try :)
OMG these look so good. Was just talking this morning aboutt how I haven’t had s’mores yet this year and I need some. Do you deliver?? Guess i’ll have to make my own.
Haha! I wish I could deliver some to you, Caitlyn! Thanks so much for your sweet words. BTW – I’m OBSESSED with the name of your blog!!
These look incredible! I have some people with almond allergies in my close circle of friends/family. Which flour could I use in place of almond flour?
Hey, Janelle! :) I think you could probably get away with another nut flour…perhaps cashew? I haven’t tried it though. Let me know how it goes if you try it!