S’mores Cake {Made with Homemade Graham Cracker Cake, Ganache & Marshmallow Fluff}

If you love the amazing combination of chocolate, marshmallow and graham crackers then you are going to love this S’mores Cake!

S’Mores Cake

 

It was one of our friends 30th birthday and of coarse I was in charge of making the cake. I was torn between making him a iron man cake or making a really fun flavored cake. Well I deiced to go with the fun flavored cake because they are always having us over for a bonfire in their back yard. We all know that with a bonfire comes s’mores. This was my take on a few different recipes put together to make this S’more cake.

For this recipe you will need the Marshmallow Buttercream and the Marshmallow Fluff Here is a great article on the tools used to decorate cakes.

There are a few steps to making this S’mores Cake. You will need to make and bake your Graham Cracker Cake, make the Ganache, and make the Marshmallow Buttercream and the Marshmallow Fluff. You can make the ganache, buttercream and fluff while your cake is baking 🙂

S’mores Cake Ingredients:

Graham Cracker Cake Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 11/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup buttermilk

Ganache Ingredients

• 6 oz Hershey chocolate
• 6 oz heavy cream

Marshmallow buttercream

Homemade Fluff 

S’mores Cake Directions:

Make and Bake your Graham Cracker Cake according to the following Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Grease Two 8″ can pans and lightly flour the pans making sure to tap out any extra flour.
3. In a medium bowl whisk together the graham cracker crumbs, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Cream the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar together on medium high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
5. Turn the speed down to medium and slowly incorporate the eggs one in at a time.
6. With a rubber spatula scrap down the sides of the bowl and add in the vanilla.
7. Alternate mixing the dry ingredients and the buttermilk into the batter until all the ingredients are well incorporated.
8. Evenly divided the batter between the two cake pan.
9. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean from the middle.

While your cake is baking and cooling make your Ganache (Using directions below), Marshmallow buttercream and Homemade Fluff . 

Ganache Directions

1. Chop up your chocolate into small pieces and place it in a heat safe bowl.
2. In a small sauce pot bring the heavy cream just to a boil.
3. Pour it over the bowl of chocolate.
4. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the cream sit on the chocolate for a minute.
5. Stir the ganache in small circles until the cream and the chocolate are fully combined.
6. Place in a 9×9 pan to set up.

Putting together S’Mores Cake Directions

Now it is time to put this amazing cake together! 

1. Slice the cakes in half so you are left with four layers.
2. Place your first layer of cake on your cake board or plate. Spread half of the marshmallow buttercream on that layer of cake.
3. Top the buttercream layer with a layer of cake. Spread the ganache on top of that layer.
4. Top the ganache layer with a layer of cake. Spread the last half of the buttercream on that layer.
5. Top the buttercream with a layer of cake.
6. Spread the fluff all over the outside of the cake making sure its all even.
7. Hold your torch about an inch away from the fluff and carefully brown the outside.

If you are a big fan of S’mores, be sure to check out these other S’mores Recipes that we love!

• Smores Cookie Pizza
• Smores Dip
• Smores Thumbprint Cookies
• Smores Cupcakes
• Smores Dipped Cookies

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