A dessert that my Grandma Josephine made quite often was a fluff made of 5 simple ingredients, which I am sure Grandma knew by heart. Fortunately, my mom wrote down the recipe! The recipe differs a little bit from how I remember it but the taste was the same.

The ingredients:

1/2 to 2/3 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup milk
25 marshmallows (I used a full bag of miniature marshmallows since that was what I had on hand)
1-2 ripe bananas pr 1 cup crushed pineapple
1 cup whipped cream

Directions:

Dissolve marshmallows in hot milk. Cool. Add either the banana(s) or pineapple. Then stir in whipped cream.

Put graham cracker crumbs in a buttered 9 x 12 baking dish. Add the filling on top of the crumbs, then add a little more graham cracker crumbs on top. Chill.

The final product was a little banana forward so I would suggest using 1 banana and regular size marshmallows. Rather than using a 9 x 12 dish, I recall that Grandma used a decorative bowl, layering the dessert: layer in the graham cracker crumbs, then the filling, followed by more graham cracker crumbs, and the rest of the filling. Top with a some more graham cracker crumbs.

S’More Dessert version

While putting together Grandma’s version of the marshmallow fluff dessert, it occurred to me that two of the three ingredients of s’mores was used, which made me wonder how it would be to incorporate chocolate into the dessert. So I modified the recipe by omitting the fruit and melting in 1 cup of chocolate chips. I also used 30 regular sized marshmallows. The result was the perfect taste of s’mores!