Ooey, Gooey Smores Bars

For the Crust

1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter 8×8 dish. Averie suggests lining the dish with foil and then spraying it with cooking spray but I have this thing about being able to see my desserts bake. I know. Weird.
2. Crush your graham crackers into crumbs. My preferred method is to throw them in a ziplock plastic bag and whack them with a rolling pin, can, or even your hand will do. It’s kind of therapeutic. As I was crumbling the graham crackers wondering, “Don’t they sell graham cracker crumbs!?” Why yes, yes they do! I highly suggest you go that route.
3. Melt butter in a medium bowl in the microwave. Dump the remaining crust ingredients in with the butter and mix. Press into prepared dish.

To assemble the Smores Bars:

1. Arrange your Hershey’s bars in cute little rows.
2. If you want to get a little crazy with the Hershey’s and not leave as much space, you go on with your bad self! [Name that movie!] But I will warn you that these Smores Bars are SWEET!
3. Then carefully place(cross out) dump your marshmallows on top. The quantities listed above are really more like guidelines. If you are a marshmallow person, pile ’em on!!!
4. The sprinkle some milk chocolate chips on top. You know how some days a few chips aren’t enough? Yeah, I was having one of those days. Why Ghirardelli chips and Hershey’s bars? Because, as crazy as this might sound, my chocolate palate has matured over the years and Hershey’s just doesn’t float my boat as much anymore, but would they be Smores without Hershey’s? I’ll field that one for you. No. No, they would not. Thus Hershey’s AND Ghriardelli it is.
5. Pour the sweetened condensed milk overtop. No need to cover every nook and cranny. Honestly it’s best if you don’t. 1/2 can, really? Yes really. You know what I do? I spatula that remaining sweetened condensed milk into a small ziptop plastic baggie and then throw it in the freezer. Just make sure you label it because have you seen sweetened condensed milk in a baggie? It’s gross looking. Someone will throw it out.
6. Anyways put those Smores Bars in the preheated oven and bake for 20-30 minutes or until the top is a perfect golden brown. Cook longer if you like your smores burnt. Here’s to that!
7. Let cool 10 minutes and then pull the marshmallows away from the sides of the dish with a metal spatula or knife. Let cool completely before cutting, or you will have one big messy (delicious) pile and not perfectly formed bars.