These S’mores Ice Cream Bars are the perfect summer treat! Cold and refreshing, and with the exception of toasting the marshmallows, they are completely no bake! You’re going to love this fun s’mores dessert idea.
A Fun & Easy Way to Enjoy Smores Dessert
Do you ever feel like you’re just constantly multitasking? And it’s hard to turn it off?
This week has felt that way for me.
Work has been pretty busy. The blog is busy. Life is busy. It feels like there’s a million moving parts to keep track of. Between all of it I kind of thought my head might explode yesterday.
My initial reaction when I feel like there’s just so much to do is to just keep going and try to get it all done. I almost decided to just skip working out so that I’d have more time.
Then I decided that working out might be the best thing. Not only for obvious health reasons, but also because it forces me to just stop for a little bit. Get my mind back in order. When I’m working out, I can’t really be doing a million things at once. I can think about doing a million things at once, but at least I can’t do them. 🙂
And yesterday my mom called in the middle of my cardio. Usually I prefer not to chat and do cardio, but she doesn’t care if I sounded out of breath. And it was good because then I just chatted and my mind got a break too.
I felt much more refreshed afterwards and less stressed and like my head might explode. Yay for that! 🙂
Then I went home and had a smores ice cream bar. All better!
How to Make these S’mores Ice Cream Bars
So these s’mores ice cream bars start off with a graham cracker crust. The chocolate ice cream has toasted marshmallows mixed in, which I love. They add a bit of crunch and texture to the smooth and creamy ice cream.
And even better, the ice cream doesn’t need an ice cream machine. It’s my favorite way to do it. The base of the ice cream is cream cheese and Cool Whip – yummy! If you don’t care for Cool Whip, you can use homemade whipped cream. It won’t make a difference, but I do love the ease of Cool Whip sometimes.
The bars are topped with more toasted marshmallows and honestly, you could probably add even more of them. They are just so darn good! Just be aware – they are kind of sticky to work with. You want to make sure to let them cool a little bit after you toast them – I find them easier to work with that way.
I drizzled on some chocolate sauce (is ice cream ever complete without it?) and a little bit of mini chocolate chips, but that’s completely optional.
What isn’t optional is enjoying these bars. They are super easy and delicious!
More Dessert Recipes
- S’mores Cheesecake
- S’mores Chocolate Cake
- S’mores Pizza
- Nutella, Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Pie
- S’mores Chocolate Pie
S’mores Ice Cream Bars
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Ingredients
CRUST
- 1 ¼ cups graham cracker crumbs
- 5 tablespoons butter (melted)
- 4 tablespoons sugar
ICE CREAM AND TOPPING
- 8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 ounces Cool Whip (or homemade whipped cream)
- 2 ½ cups mini marshmallows
- chocolate sauce
- handful of mini chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- 1. Place mini marshmallows onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Space them out as best you can so they don’t stick together too much.
- 2. Bake at 350 degrees on convection bake for 5-7 minutes or until browned.
- 3. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.
- 4. Line a 9×9 cake pan with parchment paper that sticks up above the sides.
- 5. Combine graham cracker crumbs, butter and sugar.
- 6. Press graham cracker mixture into the bottom of the pan.
- 7. Mix together cream cheese, sugar and milk. It will be lumpy.
- 8. Add cocoa and vanilla and mix well.
- 9. Fold in cool whip.
- 10. Fold about half of the marshmallows into the ice cream mixture. If they stuck together when toasted, pull them apart as best you can.
- 11. Spread ice cream into an even layer on top of the graham cracker crust.
- 12. Top ice cream with remaining toasted marshmallows, chocolate sauce and mini chocolate chips, if using.
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
Enjoy!
So there is actually no ice cream so that you just keep in frig until ready to serve they look so easy and yummy
It is a no churn ice cream, not a traditional ice cream. You could store it in the fridge, but it would be quite soft.
Hmm… there is no ice cream in this. Frozen cream cheese and cool whip
is not ice cream.
It’s not a traditional ice cream that uses an ice cream machine, but it’s nice and easy and you really can’t tell the difference. 🙂 I hope you’ll give it a try.
I like the Cool Whip- awesome short cut!
Thanks Wendy! I love my shortcuts sometimes. 🙂
one word.. WOW. this is so incredible words literally fail me. i could definitely devour one of these bars right now, they look wickedly devine.
Oh, yum! So very gooey and chocolate-y!
Thanks Jennifer!
Hi Lindsay! These s’mores bars look completely amazing. That beautiful chocolate looks so decadent and delicious! Have pinned and will be sharing on my blog’s facebook page later today. ~Erin
Thanks so much for pinning and sharing Erin!
I hate times in life when everything is spinning and you totally feel like you might drop something or everything! But cardio followed with a big huge piece of these ice cream bars looks like it will solve everything!
HOT DANG this is awesome!
All these recipes look delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks Janet! I hope you enjoy them!
Nothing motivates me more to work out than delicious treats like this one. I always try to take my mind off of things during workouts, but I don’t think that’ll work today after looking at your pics – beautiful and delicious!
Iwould happily work out every day if I had an ice cream bar like this waiting for men 🙂
These bars look insane! I feel like that all the time! The gym is my time to break free, but you are right, it is hard to stop thinking about everything! My solution: push my body so hard that it can’t think about anything but the task on hand. 🙂
Pinned! I am in need of an ice cream infused treat!
What a great variation to s’mores! Love that you used a graham cracker crust with the ice cream!
Thanks Jessica!
Nothing is better than cardio for clearing your head! Especially if moms weigh in.
These are really fun! Love the combo of graham cracker crust and ice cream!
This definitely sounds easy and so good! My kids would love it!