Trying recipes from TikTok can be very hit or miss – for one thing, it’s hard to follow the steps sometimes when they are not written down, and you never know if there has been some clever editing done to make the recipe or hack look better than it is.
However, when it comes to an air fryer recipe, I’ll try anything once. The air fryer is part and parcel if most Irish homes now, with the convenience and energy saving benefits well known.
New viral recipes involving the air fryer come along every week, but one that has really caught the attention of the masses is the s’mores dip recipe.
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Of course, s’mores are not a staple of the Irish diet or traditions, they are an American invention most often seen in films as people gather around a cosy campfire, toasting their sweet treats.
However, like peanut butter chocolate and marshmallow spread, we have a sweet tooth for some of America’s confection inventions.
The first recorded version of the s’mores recipe can be found in the the Girl Scouts of America handbook, published in 1927, but the TikTok viral version has been brought into the modern day almost 100 years later with the addition of the airfryer.
S’mores are simply chocolate and marshmallows sandwiched between two graham crackers and toasted until the mallows and chocolate go nice and gooey.
For the dip, you are toasting the marshmallows and chocolate, and then using graham crackers to scoop up the sweet dip and nibble away.
The viral videos say you need just four things to create the recipe – marshmallows, milk chocolate, graham crackers and an air fryer.
My air fryer is the NINJA Foodi Dual Zone AF300UK Air Fryer – you can find it from currys.ie HERE with thousands of amazing reviews – and it has two baskets, so you can be melting a s’mores dip in one while making another dish in the other, it’s extremely handy.
Marshmallows and chocolate were easily acquired, however Ireland does not really have graham crackers – a sweet flavoured cracker made with graham flour – but Google said that digestive or rich tea biscuits were the closest thing, so I secured some digestive finger biscuits and was ready to go.
All of my ingredients assembled, I used a small baking dish and gave it a spritz of light oil spray, before adding my chocolate – broken into squared, and my marshmallows in a grid pattern.
The next step was to pop it in the air fryer for 3-5 minutes. I chose the “roast” setting on my NINJA and set it for five minutes before opening the drawer.
The chocolate was not quite as melted as I would have liked, so I used my silicone spatula to give the sweet dip a swirl before popping it back in for another two minutes.
After the seven minutes total, it was perfect – though I recommend checking on it every two or three minutes to be sure.
The marshmallows had made a toasted, meringue like coating on top, with molten mallow and chocolate under the surface, with the digestives making the perfect vehicle for the dip.
This recipe would be great to try with kids, as they would love the assembly part, and, of course, the eating part.
I used one bag of mallows and one large bar of chocolate, so I would say this recipe would do two adults or three-four children.
We had the dip after dinner while watching a Halloween movie, and it was the perfect cosy snack for a cold and blustery evening.
It was very sweet – of course, look at the ingredient list – so I think it’s more suited to kids as a special treat than to adults as a dessert, depending on the sweet tooth level.
I didn’t decorate my dip, but for a treat for kids, you could add little sugar snowflakes for a wintery dessert, or half the rich tea fingers to make some spooky tomb stones ticking up from the dip for Halloween.
There are hundreds of TikTok videos you can follow along to recreate the recipe – find them HERE.
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