S’mores Semifreddo

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Serves
8
Writer Notes
Final week at a seaside picnic, my buddy Stephen (espresso aficionado, Superior Green Egg aficonado, every little thing food aficionado) told me a pair of s’mores variation that I would possibly well presumably no longer resist making an strive. He’d read about s’mores semifreddo online, abandoned it for being too sophisticated (dwelling-made graham crackers and ice cream, who can blame him?), and struck out on his personal with a pared down version the expend of storebought ingredients and a small culinary improv. Tailored from Stephen Cornick. —Amanda Hesser
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S’mores Semifreddo
Ingredients
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Butter, for greasing parchment
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One 16-ounce container Marshmallow Fluff
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6 graham crackers
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2 pints right vanilla ice cream
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4 oz bittersweet chocolate
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1/2 tablespoon vegetable oil
Directions
- Heat the broiler. Line a baking sheet with parchment and generously butter the parchment. Spoon the Fluff onto the parchment. Wet your palms and pat out the Fluff into a skinny layer (watch images below) that with regards to covers the baking sheet.
- Procedure the Fluff below the broiler (about 6 inches from the flame) and toast all over the build. Opt away the baking sheet from the oven. The usage of a spatula, turn in the perimeters of the Fluff, folding it savor a letter, to instruct the un-toasted portions. Procedure below the broiler and toast all over the build, again. Opt a long way from the oven and let chilly fully.
- Save the graham crackers in a sturdy plastic discover, and the expend of both a rolling pin or the contaminated of a small saucepan, pound the crackers into low crumbs. Spread half of them in the contaminated of an 8-disappear baking dish.
- Fair out the ice cream for 10 minutes. Procedure it in the bowl of a mixer fitted with a chase attachment (whenever you happen to place no longer want a mixer, it’s probably you’ll well even mix it by hand and skip the gymnasium this week). With the mixer on low, mash the ice cream to loosen it a small. Add the toasted Fluff and mix until right blended nonetheless no longer broken down — you savor to personal there to be chewy bits. Pickle into the baking dish and freeze.
- Meanwhile, soften the chocolate and oil in a double boiler, whisking until they’re at ease.
- To again, spread the final graham cracker crumbs on top of the semifreddo. Drizzle the pause with as unparalleled chocolate as you savor! (It’s probably you’ll well even moreover mosey a pitcher of chocolate on the table, which your company will adore.)
Sooner than beginning Food52 with Merrill, I changed into a food author and editor on the Contemporary York Times. I’ve written several books, including “Cooking for Mr. Latte” and “The Compulsory Contemporary York Times Cookbook.” I finished myself in “Julie & Julia” — hope you did no longer blink, otherwise it’s probably you’ll well even personal omitted the scene! I live in Brooklyn with my husband, Tad, and twins, Walker and Addison.