Have S'more (Cake)

I have been keeping my eyes peeled for things that I could try out and review. I had my mind made up and my product picked out until yesterday when I made my daily stop at the bank. Earlier in the week, I stopped in and the girls there shared with me a picture of a S'mores cake they had been drooling over. I agreed that it looked quite tasty and encouraged them to make it and then give me a piece. Nobody ever does what I ask them to do, so I was super surprised when I walked in to the bank with a growling stomach, and walked out with a heaping plate of S'mores Cake. What?! Luckiest day ever? I think so!

I am not a traditional S'more eater for these few, simple reasons:
1. I don't want to be sitting out in the forest with chocolate and marshmallow stickiness smeared from my face to my elbows. That's called bear bait!
2. I always manage to burn my marshmallow until it is completely unrecognizable. You don't even have to try and peel it off the stick, you just touch it and it disintegrates!
3. Every time I try to eat a s'more, the first bite I take breaks the graham cracker in half and I end up eating the s'more off of my jeans. Gross!

But s'mores cake is an idea I could get behind! Here is my review:

I am not normally a huge cake fan, mostly because I think it is to dry and it gags my throat, but this cake was not dry at all! It didn't even need the inch of frosting that I would normally slather on a cake. This actually tasted very s'more like, right down to the "roasted over the fire" marshmallow taste. It was delicious!
I was grateful to have a plate and a fork because, in true s'more fashion, this is a sticky treat and at one point I'm pretty sure I had to just stuff the entire marshmallow topping in my mouth and eat the cake separately (be thankful you didn't witness that!) If it would have been safe to close my eyes, I would have been able to picture a peaceful mountain sunset, hear the crackle of my campfire, smell the smoke and sing a nice round of "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" while chewing on my piece of s'more.

Those are real Marshmallows!

I didn't make this, and have to give a shout out to Carmen at Zions for whipping up this delightful dessert. . . A banker AND a baker! I'm pretty sure the recipe came from a Pampered Chef book and I have searched the world wide web over trying to find it, but having no success turned to Pinterest. Here is the link to the closest looking recipe I could find:

http://www.ihearteating.com/2013/06/14/smores-cake/

And also a link to Carmen's Pampered Chef site to which you can go and find many more recipes and products:

http://new.pamperedchef.com/pws/carmenhumphrey

I highly recommend this dessert to all you bakers out there!

Also, a thanks to Teresa for scooping up such a generous helping and to Ann and Connie for not making me stay there to eat it. ;)

So, if you saw me at the bank today and it looked like I had cake in my teeth, it's because I did!

All gone

-Mandie