The 5 Best Places For S'mores In NYC

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S'more Bakery, with stands at Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea, offers several types of s'mores. The Choco consists of semisweet chocolate ganache spread on two dark chocolate and cocoa sugar graham crackers, with a chocolate marshmallow. Or you can try the S'morgasm, which smooshes a bourbon-Madagascar vanilla bean marshmallow between two cinnamon sugar and clover honey graham crackers, themselves dolloped with Callebaut semisweet chocolate ganache. Each one comes blow-torched to order.

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This little candy store on the Lower East Side lives by the following motto: "anything can be dipped in chocolate." Example 1: the s'mores sandwich, a marshmallow and graham cracker surrounded by a thick coating of chocolate. You're just about guaranteed to get a little bit of everything in every bite. While The Sweet Life's signature softy pops aren't quite s'mores, they're close: they consist of a marshmallow on a stick, sheathed in milk, dark, or white chocolate, with a sprinkling of sea salt or vein of caramel entirely optional.

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This bar in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn seeks to take you back, way, way back, to when you perhaps first discovered s'mores. Decorated to look like a log cabin, Camp has a stuffed deer head mounted on a brick wall, a roaring fire (when seasonally appropriate), live DJs (many of whom specialize in 80s classics), free board games, and a make-your-own s'mores dessert complete with marshmallows, graham crackers, Hershey's chocolate, and a Sterno flame. Scary stories about escaped lunatics with hooks for hands are entirely optional.

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Somehow, in the midst of the Cronut craze, Dominique Ansel has found time to make another instant classic: the frozen s'more. He takes vanilla custard ice cream, wraps it in a chocolate wafer, covers the whole shebang with a freshly made marshmallow mix, pops it onto a branch that's been roasted over applewood chips, and last but most definitely not least, gently torches the creation. The result blends sweet and savory, hot and cold, vanilla and chocolate, the familiar tastes of childhood with the imaginative technique of a pastry genius.

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Butter & Scotch is Brooklyn's first craft dessert-and-cocktail bar. You can also get their outstanding pies at Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea (check the website for details). Among the flavors often available are cherry (in the foreground) and s'mores (in the background). The latter plops lightly burned, utterly gloopy marshmallow fluff atop a chocolate ganache filling atop a graham cracker crust.