The best s’mores stuffed cookies you’ll ever make that are incredibly easy and undetectably vegan! Stuffed with a melted marshmallow and completely refined sugar free and can be gluten free, you won’t be able to stop with these vegan s’mores cookies!
It’s just not summer without some s’mores.
The best and easiest s’mores stuffed cookies that just so happen to be vegan! My favorite part? You wouldn’t even know 😉
In fact, the first batch I ever made of these was devoured in a day. And the second batch. And the third…and so on.
I’m not even joking, when I gave these cookies to my mom and aunt, they were gone in an hour ha! Everyone who tried these s’mores stuffed cookies had a verryyyyyyy hard time at stopping with just one!
Hate me, love me, whatever you choose, just make these dang s’mores stuffed cookies.
You’re going to feel like a kid by the campfire, except minus the stress of lighting the wood, and dealing with the mosquitos, and probably ruining your favorite white dress with melted chocolate (been there, it’s not fun).
No offense to my other vegan s’mores recipes, I love you all, but these cookies might be my favorite of vegan recipes with marshmallows!
These vegan cookies are so easy- they’re actually based off of my vegan chocolate chip cookies, so I thought naturally, let’s make them marshmallow stuffed cookies!
Perfect, right? 😉
Let’s get into the ingredients, and then I’ll show you how to make regular vegan chocolate chip cookies into marshmallow filled cookies!
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Ingredients for vegan S’mores Stuffed Cookies
For these vegan marshmallow stuffed cookies, you’ll need:
- Organic flour: you can definitely use your favorite 1-to-1 gluten free baking flour (I personally love Bob’s Red Mill’s gluten free baking flour!), but if you don’t have a gluten intolerance, go with an organic white flour!
- Unsweetened applesauce: the trick to keeping these s’mores stuffed cookies gooey, soft, and oh so delicious. Unsweetened applesauce is the key replacement of both butter and eggs (coconut oil is also needed to replace the butter), and you’d be surprised at how well it works!
- Coconut oil: you’d be surprised at how amazing coconut oil works with making vegan chocolate chip cookies. For these vegan s’mores cookies, I recommend letting the coconut oil sit near the oven while it preheats to ensure that it’s at room temperature. It should be solid, but soft, and definitely not melted! If you don’t like a coconut flavor, purchase refined coconut oil- that will be a more neutral taste and won’t detract from the chocolate chip cookie!
- Coconut sugar: yep, these healthier s’mores cookies are refined sugar free! I just love the taste of coconut sugar, I feel like it gives an amazing caramelized flavor to these vegan s’mores cookies. Sometimes coconut sugar can get pricey though, so I recommend purchasing at Trader Joe’s!
- Vanilla extract: definitely a must for making sure that your vegan chocolate chip cookies, which are the base of the cookie, taste amazing!
- Chocolate chips: my favorite vegan chocolate chips are Lily’s Sweets Chocolate Chips, but you can use whatever you prefer! Pascha chocolate chips are also a great option because they’re completely sugar free, and Enjoy Life are Paleo friendly and vegan!
- Marshmallows: yes, you can indeed find vegan marshmallows! This is one of my favorite vegan recipes with marshmallows, and they actually act just like regular marshmallows. I recommend using Dandies, those are the best vegan marshmallows that I’ve found. However, Trader Joe’s also has some vegan marshmallows (they may have white labelled Dandies because the two are so similar!).
Where to find vegan marshmallows?
Not all marshmallows are vegan, and in fact, most are made with either egg whites or gelatin.
If you are not strictly vegan, you can use whichever marshmallows you prefer, but for those who follow a strictly vegan diet, my personal favorites are Dandies and Trader Joe’s!
Smashmallow is another great brand, but they have mostly flavored vegan marshmallows, so it won’t be a classic “s’mores” taste.
I’ve found an abundance of vegan marshmallows at both Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, but if neither of those options are available to you, I recommend Amazon!
How to make healthy s’mores cookies from scratch
Now that we have the vegan marshmallows taken care of (it can be tricky sometimes!), let’s talk about how to make these decadent yet healthy marshmallow stuffed cookies!
Vegan chocolate chip cookie dough
First, begin by preheating the oven to 375F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk together the flour, sea salt, and baking soda, and then set that bowl aside. Then add the coconut sugar, softened coconut oil, apple sauce, and vanilla extract to a medium bowl, and beat on medium with a hand mixer until completely mixed.
Then add your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients, and mix with a spoon until it becomes a sticky dough. Fold in the chocolate chips and add in an additional few tablespoons worth of unsweetened coconut milk until it resembles a standard cookie dough and all of the flour is absorbed.
Now we’re ready to make vegan marshmallow filled cookies!
How to fill the cookies with marshmallow
So I guess “stuffing” the cookies is a misnomer because what we’re really doing is splitting a serving of cookie dough in half (about 2 tablespoons worth) and placing a half of a marshmallow on top.
Then place the second half of the dough on top of the marshmallow and seal the edges around the marshmallow so that the marshmallow is completely encased in cookie dough.
Now you’re ready to bake!
What happens when you bake marshmallows?
Place the vegan s’mores cookies into the oven, and let the cookies bake for 7-9 minutes.
During the baking processor, the marshmallow will start to puff up right before they’re ready to remove from the oven. Don’t worry! The marshmallow will settle once removed from the oven.
When they’re done, remove them from the oven and let the cookies cool for 5-10 minutes. This part is crucial because you want the marshmallow to de-puff and become a gooey pull-apart center.
Then devour!
Can I reheat s’mores chocolate chip cookies?
Yes! I’ve found that if you place a s’mores chocolate chip cookies on a plate and into the microwave, you can heat it for 15 seconds, and the marshmallow becomes gooey again.
To store these cookies, simply put them in an airtight container and store at room temperature for up to 5 days or in the fridge for up to a week!
I hope you love these vegan s’mores cookies as much as I do (and my other 10 taste testers ha!). They’re seriously a dreamy pillow of a cookie and just so dang easy and simple to make.
Eat them as is, crumble them on top of Paleo vegan ice cream, or make a delicious vegan ice cream sandwich with these vegan s’mores stuffed cookies!
Let me know if you give them a go in the comments below, and I’d love to see your creations of them on Instagram and Pinterest!
Happy baking, stuffing, and s’more-ing!
More healthy vegan cookie recipes you’ll love:
The ULTIMATE Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Best Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Paleo Vegan Sugar Cookie Cut Outs
Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
Flourless Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Paleo Vegan Raspberry Linzer Cookies
Gooey Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
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The BEST S’mores Stuffed Cookies (Vegan!)
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 9
- Total Time: 19 minutes
- Yield: 18 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
The best s’mores stuffed cookies you’ll ever make that are incredibly easy and undetectably vegan! Stuffed with a melted marshmallow and completely refined sugar free and can be gluten free, you won’t be able to stop with these vegan s’mores cookies!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups organic flour (or 1-to-1 gluten free flour)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, softened to room temperature (not melted)
- 1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3–6 tbsp unsweetened almond or coconut milk
- 2/3 cup chocolate chips
- 9 large vegan marshmallows, sliced in half
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, add coconut oil, apple sauce, vanilla extract, and coconut sugar and beat until completely mixed.
- Fold wet ingredients into dry.
- Add in chocolate chips and additional 3-6 tbsp (start with 3 and slowly add more by the tablespoon if needed) until the dough resembles standard cookies dough.
- Scoop about 2 tbsp of dough with a cookie scoop or a spoon and split the dough in half.
- Add half of a marshmallow on top of one half of the split dough and then place the second half of dough over it and seal the edges so that the marshmallow is completely sealed.
- Repeat for the remaining dough. You should have about 18 cookies.
- Place in the oven and bake for 7-9 minutes. The marshmallows will puff up towards the end- don’t worry! They’ll settle after removing from the oven.
- Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes before serving.
Keywords: vegan s’mores chocolate chip cookies, s’mores chocolate chip cookies, s’mores stuffed cookies, marshmallow filled cookies
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! that is GENIUS! I cannot wait to make these 🙂
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Aw I’m so happy to hear that!! I hope you love them!!
These are sweet! The name attracts interest of those i know. You think theyd be complicated to make but theyre very straight forward. Gracias!
Thank you so much!!! I hope you love them!
Where do you get the vegan marshmallows?
Hi Lisa! So I like to either buy Dandies or the Trader Joe’s brand- both are vegan and both taste very good! I know there’s also Smashmallow on the market, but I haven’t personally tried them so I can’t speak for it.
Simply fantastic recipe. These cookies are DELICIOUS and so easy to make. They are so rich you won’t even notice they’re missing butter, eggs or refined sugar. Such simple and healthy I ingredients – I’ll definitely be making these regularly. Thank you Banana Diaries!
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Aw this is so wonderful to read! Thank you so much!! Enjoy and happy holidays!! 🙂
Our marshmallows disappeared when we pulled them out, possibly we kept them in the oven for too long. Is there a tip to keeping them solid?
Hi Steve! I’m so sorry to hear that! Hmmm it might be the brand of marshmallow…did you use Dandies? If you’re keeping them entirely vegan, I recommend Dandie’s or Trader Joe’s!
Can I use almond flour in this recipe?
Hi Sara! So I haven’t personally tried almond flour in this recipe- I’ve made them with cassava and they work! Someone told me that they made it with a combo of almond and coconut flour: if you want to keep it grain free, I would recommend cassava, but if I were to personally try almond, I would probably do a ratio of 3/4 cup almond and 1/4 cup coconut for ever cup flour. But I can’t guarantee the results!
great recipe, I used Better Batter gluten free flour and ate way too many of these
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Aw I LOVE THIS!! Ha I always eat a few too many whenever I make them too 😂 Enjoy!! Happy holidays!
DELICIOUS and super easy! I used 2/3 c of sugar and they turned out phenomenal. My husband isn’t really a s’mores fan because of “how much work they take to make” so I found this recipe and he was blown away! His literal words were “wow!” *slow chew* “whoa! what!? what’s in the middle?! is that a marshmallow??? Marshmallow chocolate chip cookies, are you kidding me! That’s amazing” lol
Then he asked if I had more for him to sample 😂
Thank you for making me a genius!
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Oh my goodness, I love this!!! This just made my MONTH! So beyond happy to hear you both enjoyed!! Happy spring 🙂
These are amazing! So easy and delicious. They remind me of the chips ahoy chewy cookies, only better 🙂
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Aw my goodness I’m so happy to hear it!! Thanks for the review, and enjoy! 🙂
Can you sub regular marshmallows? I was also wondering if you can sub maple syrup or honey for the sweetener thanks! XoXo
Hi Lucy! You can definitely sub in regular marshmallows! I worry about subbing in maple syrup or honey though because then it becomes a liquid rather than a granulated sugar, like coconut sugar. You COULD do maple sugar, which is granulated (just dried maple syrup) and that would work!
Hello!!! The cookies looks awesome. Could I use whole wheat flour for this recipe?
Hi Ana! Thank you so much!! So typically, you can swap in WW for AP, but you will notice more of a wheat taste! For this recipe, you can swap it in, just know that there will be more of a noticeable taste!
Tasty cookies, but my marshmallows completely disappeared when I went to eat them. I went to go take a slow motion video of me pulling it apart and no marshmallow was to be found, then I tried another and same thing happened. It was actually really comical =D haha. The cookies still tasted delicious regardless! Just was a little disappointed to barely see any marshmallow.
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Aw my goodness!! I’m so sorry to hear about the marshmallows- do you remember what brand you used? I’ve never had that happen with neither the Dandies nor the TJ’s version! I hope you could still somewhat taste the marshmallows in there!!! But so glad you enjoyed regardless!!
REALLY excited to try these! Has anyone made the dough ahead of time and kept it in the fridge overnight? Trying to prep a bit before guests tomorrow evening 😉
Aw YAY!! So excited to hear it!! I’ll let others respond too, but I’ve chilled the dough before, and allowed it to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking! I hope that helps!
So dang delicious! I couldn’t believe the dough actually tasted like cookie dough. I love how this recipe didn’t need vegan butter or a flax seed egg. Pure genius! So delicious, my daughter and neighbor kids gobbled them up! For sure making them again, and again❤️
PS if you don’t have coconut sugar, a half cup of sugar works!
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Aw I absolutely love this!! THANK YOU for the kind words!! and love the notes too!! So happy everyone loved them!
I was skeptical about the applesauce but these turned out awesome! I saw the picture on the FeedFeed and had to make them immediately they looked so good.
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Thank you so much!! Means the world to me!! So glad you liked them 🙂
Same as some other comments my marshmallows melted/caramelized and disappeared!!! 🙁 i used regular not vegan. My method was scoop flatten and wrap around marshmallow creating a massive cookie ball haha still have more batter in fridge will try how the recipe mentions and also possibly freezing first to see if I have better luck or may need to buy vegan version and try again!
I’m so sorry to hear this! It might be the brand, as I haven’t personally experienced this, but have seen some commentary about marshmallows dissolving while baking around the web as well. Some have said that dehydrating the marshmallow helps with this. Another said that freezing the marshmallows before putting them into the cookie dough helps. I use Dandies vegan marshmallows with every recipe that uses marshmallows on my blog, and haven’t had that problem! If you make them again, try those!
Hi there! I tried this recipe and they turned out way too soft (we were barely able to pick them up even after they cooled. Do yours turn out being crispy around the edges? I’m wondering if I have to bake for longer?
Hi Jen! I’m so sorry to hear this! They should definitely be crisp around the edges, and probably needed longer in the oven to bake (cookies bake differently in different ovens- for instance this same recipe, i’ll bake in 8-9-ish minutes in my oven and 11-ish minutes in my sisters!). Definitely go by how the cookies look in your own oven, and use the time in the instructions as a guideline!
Can I use vegan butter to sub the coconut the oil?
Yes you can!