Smores Cookie Bars

This is a kid/teen favorite! Tastes just like Smores. Bottom crust is a graham cracker flavored cookie with real hershey bars in the middle layer and then topped with marshmallows and more cookie dough. I took these to a cookie exchange and the plate was emptied in about 5 minutes.

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 1 9x13 pan

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter, softened (2 sticks)
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2  eggs
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 2 2⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 7  Hershey chocolate candy bars (or 2 8-oz pkgs. Hershey's mini chocolate candy bars)
• 6  cups miniature marshmallows

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
3. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture, beating until blended.
4. Press half of dough in a greased 9x13 pan. (reserve remaining dough).
5. Bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven.
6. Arrange a single layer of chocolate bars over baked layer, breaking as needed to fit. Sprinkle with marshmallows; scatter bits of remaining dough over marshmallows forming top layer.
7. Return to oven and bake 15 minutes more or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.