campfire cookie

English

Noun

campfire cookie (plural campfire cookies)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

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