campfire cookie
English
Noun
campfire cookie (plural campfire cookies)
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (rare) A type of biscuit or cookie that is cooked over or eaten next to a campfire.
- 1965, Colorado Mountain Club (contributor), Trail and Timberline[1], numbers 553-600, page 204:
- This month's food idea is both simple and unusual. How about some campfire cookies? You can use either prepared cookie dough from the frozen foods shelf or a boxed spicecake or brownie mix.
- 2008, Gail Banning, Out on a Limb, page 113:
- They were a million times better than packaged, and several zillion times better than Mom's campfire cookies.
- 2013, Jennifer Biggs, “100 More Things To Eat In Memphis Before You Die”, in The Commercial Appeal[2], page 46:
- Girl Scouts aren't the only one who can have fun making s'mores. You get to use your own "stove," which comes with a Hershey bar, graham crackers, and marshmallows, and make this popular campfire cookie indoors at your table.
- 2022, “Stepping Into The Past”, in Alberni Valley News[3], page A16:
- Right, "Little Red" checks on a campfire cookie while chatting with members of the public.
- (rare) A type of cookie that contains the ingredients of a s'more; a cookie that contains graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate; a s'more cookie.
- 2014 December 4, Shelly [Jaronsky], “Campfire Cookies”, in Cookies and Cups[4]:
- Campfire Cookies[sic] are my new favorite cookie recipe! These have all the flavors of s'mores cookies made with marshmallows, chocolate, honey, and graham crackers, these cookies are the essence of a summer campfire!
- 2024 January 30, Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser, “Bake these Campfire Cookies for a real treat”, in Some Kinda Good[5]:
- These campfire cookies are reminiscent of a warm fire, roasting marshmallows and eating sticky s'mores but without all the mess! With crushed graham crackers, toasted mini-marshmallows, and slightly melted chocolate, this may be my new favorite cookie of all time.
- 2025 April 17, Carrie Vasios Mullins, “Campfire Cookies Recipe”, in Serious Eats[6]:
- These chunky campfire cookies include all your summer s'mores ingredients: chopped up Hershey's bars, graham crackers, and marshmallows.
References
- “campfire cookie, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.