Bust out those marshmallows! We’re celebrating National S’mores Day!
Which got me thinking. Are there any places in Las Vegas where you can get a really great S’mores dish? Of course there are. Quite a few, actually. Because we’re Vegas. Home to some of the most creative and inspired chefs in the world. So we did a little digging and found some amazing local treats to try, in honor of one of the sweetest national holidays around.
National S’mores Day is celebrated every year on August 10.
And the beloved S’more has been around for almost a century now. The invention of the tasty delicacy is attributed to an American entrepreneur named Alec Barnum. But little is known about him or the validity of this origin story. So we’ll stick with what we do know. The first people to make record of the S’more was a tribe of young women with grit, fervor, and cookies.
Yep. I’m talking about the Girl Scouts of America. We can thank those little cookie-pushers for first publishing the S’mores recipe in their 1927 publication. Called Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts, the publication actually called the treat “Some More’s”. It wasn’t until a year later the recipe was printed under the name we know it as today (nationaldaycalender.com).
Which is just the two words combined into a contraction. Is it because people ask for a second one while their mouth is still full with the first? Asking for a friend.
If it ain’t broke, you don’t you fix it. You eat it!
And the recipe has been the same ever since that first publication. Two pieces of graham cracker. A toasted marshmallow. And half a chocolate bar. People have done a lot to alter the traditional recipe, but the original was so perfect that it’s never permanently evolved into anything else.
So feel free to make a S’more this weekend at home to celebrate. Or you can get out of the house and try one of these sweet treats around Vegas that are a delicious twist on our old favorite.
– Wendy Rush, 96.3 KKLZ
BabyStacks Cafe S'mores Pancakes
Okay I’m officially drooling over here. This place has so many amazing options, it would be hard to pick just one. Good thing you have a reason to decide on the s’mores pancakes. And you should.
