Make Easy Solar Oven S’mores

If you don’t like burning your fingers over an open flame, try these solar oven s’mores for an off grid twist on a classic campfire treat. Baking S’mores in the solar oven saves time, too!

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Outdoor Cooking

My biggest accomplishment last year was to learn to build and maintain a fire for my open flame cooking experiments. You may laugh but, for me, this was a big deal! I’m not very good at it, but I can do it.

Here are a few of our observations on open flame cooking. We even learned how to make cookies on an outdoor fire! 

Versatile Solar Ovens

Open flame cooking is economical and super tasty, but a fire is more work and a lot hotter to tend than my solar oven. On a sunny day, when I need to be lazy, I go for my S.O.S. brand solar oven.

There are a few different commercial brands of solar oven and they all have their merits. The biggest plus is that they don’t cost anything to run. 

For my family of seven, my only pet peeve with them is that they’re too small. I’m saving up to buy two more but that will take awhile. With a total of three ovens I can make dinner and bread and a treat!

In a solar oven you can make:

• Casseroles and soups in a solar oven
• Roast chicken
• Loaf bread and dinner rolls

We did a fun solar oven experiment with dinner rolls and the conventional oven – to read that, click here. 

Those are just a few of the more recent things I’ve pulled, piping hot out of my solar oven. I have also discovered that, among the many desserts you can concoct for your solar oven, you can also make some very interesting variations on the classic, campfire S’more. Let me share just one with you here, and then you can play around with the ingredients and your own ideas.

Solar Oven S’mores

You can learn to make, without too much hassle, a healthier, junk-free version of the humble marshmallow. No HFCS, no preservatives, no plastic packaging. Just water, honey (or other sugar) and gelatin. You can make them GAPS, Paleo and Weston Price friendly. 

—>>>First of all, learn how to make homemade marshmallows with this article here.<<<—

Homemade graham crackers are also worthwhile to learn, so here’s a recipe for healthy, homemade graham crackers from A Modern Homestead.

Ingredients for Solar Oven S’mores:

• Marshmallows, homemade or store bought
• Graham crackers, homemade or store bought
• Chocolate bars of you favorite persuasion – can also be homemade!

You’ll also need a 9×13 casserole dish, a solar oven, spatula, hot mitts and some utensils and plates.

If you’re into eating off plates, that is. My family just grabs forks and eats like piglets out of the pan. (Do piglets use forks?)

Procedure for Solar Oven S’mores

This is NOT rocket science, I promise. If you’ve ever used a solar oven, you can easily make s’mores in one.

Solar Oven S'mores

If you don't have a campfire but you really want S'mores, use your solar oven!

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Rest Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Green Living

Cuisine Dessert

Servings 18 Single Servings

Ingredients

  

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• 3 Package Graham crackers
• 1 Bag Marshmallows or 1 Pan Homemade Marshmallows
• 6 Chocolate Bars
• Butter to grease dish

Instructions

 

• Pre-Heat Solar OvenSet out your solar oven with the lid on in a sunny spot in order to preheat it a bit. Fifteen to thirty minutes is enough time to pre-heat on a sunny day.
• Assemble S'Mores
• Butter a large casserole dish. Remember to pick a dish that will lay flat in your solar oven.
• Cover the bottom of the dish in graham cracker squares.
• Break the chocolate bars into bite size pieces and put one or two on top of each cracker.
• Place one to two marshmallows on top of the chocolate – however many it takes to fill the area of the graham cracker.
• Reserve the top cracker until just before serving.
• Baking S'mores in the Solar Oven
• Once your dish is full, you're ready to put it in the solar oven.
• Take the dish out to the solar oven and put it inside - remember the oven is pre-heated, so it will be hot.
• Secure the lid and leave it in the sun to melt both the chocolate and the marshmallows.
• Start checking your s'mores at twenty minutes for done-ness.
• Use a spatula to serve up individual baked s’mores and place the finishing graham cracker like a hat on top of your s'mores.
  

Notes

How long that will takes is entirely dependent on how mushy you want your s'mores. If you just want all the ingredients warmed but not melted, be sure to check on your dish after about twenty minutes, if it’s a hot day. If you want it melted (the way we like it), give it a bit longer.

If you’re making s'mores in the fall or winter, give it a little extra time.

FYI, a homemade marshmallow will melt a lot faster than a store bought one.

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

Save the Top for Last

Regardless of how many layers of marshmallow and chocolate you decide to use, wait until your s’mores are fully baked and being served up before you put on your top graham cracker. Especially if you like the inside of your s’mores melted all the way. 

The s’mores are a bit messy when they come out of the oven. If you wait to put that top cracker on until the very last minute, you clean up the presentation a bit.

Again, my crew couldn’t care less what solar oven s’mores look like since it all tastes the same, but if you’re serving individuals who stick their pinkies out when they eat, presentation is important.

Pay Attention to the Solar Oven

Solar oven cooking is always a bit of an adventure at my house. Between five small children and a homestead, I get pretty scatterbrained and can forget to check on my solar oven occupants regularly. 

With a roast chicken, that’s not as big a deal. However, with something a bit temperature sensitive like s’mores, I do try to pay more attention. 

After you try this, go do more experiments with solar oven desserts and see if you can start some sweet obsessions of your own!