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These Smores Ice Cream Bars are the perfect summer treat! Cold and refreshing, and with the exception of toasting the marshmallows, they are completely no bake! You’re going to love this fun smores dessert idea.
Today I’m sharing my second recipe as part of Smores Week. If you didn’t see Monday’s Smores Cheesecake post, a bunch of great bloggers are sharing s’mores treats this week. My friend Lisa from Wine and Glue has been the bomb dignity at organizing everything.
A Fun & Easy Way to Enjoy Smores Dessert
Do you ever feel like you’re just constantly multitasking? And it’s hard to turn it off?
This week has felt that way for me.
Work has been pretty busy. The blog is busy. Life is busy. It feels like there’s a million moving parts to keep track of. Between all of it I kind of thought my head might explode yesterday.
My initial reaction when I feel like there’s just so much to do is to just keep going and try to get it all done. I almost decided to just skip working out so that I’d have more time.
Then I decided that working out might be the best thing. Not only for obvious health reasons, but also because it forces me to just stop for a little bit. Get my mind back in order. When I’m working out, I can’t really be doing a million things at once. I can think about doing a million things at once, but at least I can’t do them. 🙂
And yesterday my mom called in the middle of my cardio. Usually I prefer not to chat and do cardio, but she doesn’t care if I sounded out of breath. And it was good because then I just chatted and my mind got a break too.
I felt much more refreshed afterwards and less stressed and like my head might explode. Yay for that! 🙂
Then I went home and had a smores ice cream bar. All better!
How to Make these Smores Ice Cream Bars
So these smores ice cream bars start off with a graham cracker crust. The chocolate ice cream has toasted marshmallows mixed in, which I love. They add a bit of crunch and texture to the smooth and creamy ice cream.
And even better, the ice cream doesn’t need an ice cream machine. It’s my favorite way to do it. The base of the ice cream is cream cheese and Cool Whip – yummy! If you don’t care for Cool Whip, you can use homemade whipped cream. It won’t make a difference, but I do love the ease of Cool Whip sometimes.
The bars are topped with more toasted marshmallows and honestly, you could probably add even more of them. They are just so darn good! Just be aware – they are kind of sticky to work with. You want to make sure to let them cool a little bit after you toast them – I find them easier to work with that way.
I drizzled on some chocolate sauce (is ice cream ever complete without it?) and a little bit of mini chocolate chips, but that’s completely optional.
What isn’t optional is enjoying these bars. They are super easy and delicious!
PrintSmores Ice Cream Bars
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Total Time: 37 minutes
- Yield: 9-12 Ice Cream Bars
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Smores Ice Cream Bars are the perfect summer treat! Cold and refreshing, and with the exception of toasting the marshmallows, they are completely no bake! You’re going to love this fun smores dessert idea.
Ingredients
CRUST
- 1 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 5 tbsp butter, melted
- 4 tbsp sugar
ICE CREAM AND TOPPING
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 8 oz Cool Whip (or homemade whipped cream)
- 2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- chocolate sauce
- handful of mini chocolate chips, optional
Instructions
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Ice Cream Bar
- Calories: 389
- Sugar: 37.5 g
- Sodium: 228.2 mg
- Fat: 18.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 54.7 g
- Protein: 4.8 g
- Cholesterol: 32.6 mg
Enjoy!
Check out the other recipes for today:
You might also like:
Bailey’s Hot Chocolate Ice Cream Pie
Nutella, Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Pie
More tasty smores recipes:
Cookie Dough Smores from Inside BruCrew Life
No Bake Smores Bars from Crazy for Crust
Smores Pie from Two Peas and Their Pod
Hmm… there is no ice cream in this. Frozen cream cheese and cool whip
is not ice cream.
It’s not a traditional ice cream that uses an ice cream machine, but it’s nice and easy and you really can’t tell the difference. 🙂 I hope you’ll give it a try.
I like the Cool Whip- awesome short cut!
Thanks Wendy! I love my shortcuts sometimes. 🙂
one word.. WOW. this is so incredible words literally fail me. i could definitely devour one of these bars right now, they look wickedly devine.
Oh, yum! So very gooey and chocolate-y!
Thanks Jennifer!
Hi Lindsay! These s’mores bars look completely amazing. That beautiful chocolate looks so decadent and delicious! Have pinned and will be sharing on my blog’s facebook page later today. ~Erin
Thanks so much for pinning and sharing Erin!
I hate times in life when everything is spinning and you totally feel like you might drop something or everything! But cardio followed with a big huge piece of these ice cream bars looks like it will solve everything!
HOT DANG this is awesome!
All these recipes look delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks Janet! I hope you enjoy them!
Nothing motivates me more to work out than delicious treats like this one. I always try to take my mind off of things during workouts, but I don’t think that’ll work today after looking at your pics – beautiful and delicious!
Iwould happily work out every day if I had an ice cream bar like this waiting for men 🙂
These bars look insane! I feel like that all the time! The gym is my time to break free, but you are right, it is hard to stop thinking about everything! My solution: push my body so hard that it can’t think about anything but the task on hand. 🙂
Pinned! I am in need of an ice cream infused treat!
What a great variation to s’mores! Love that you used a graham cracker crust with the ice cream!
Thanks Jessica!
Nothing is better than cardio for clearing your head! Especially if moms weigh in.
These are really fun! Love the combo of graham cracker crust and ice cream!
This definitely sounds easy and so good! My kids would love it!