My new fun food for my fireworks party this year was a last-minute brainstorm after we had so much fun roasting marshmallows at my Frozen party the week before. The giant marshmallows are a lot fun, but they are a little too large to eat as s’mores, so the idea popped into my head to cut them in half vertically, then use a stencil and sugar to make Star-Spangled S’mores! These turned out really cute like a flag full of stars, and I got plenty sticky while preparing them, but they weren’t hard to make at all! Here’s how you can do it too!
First you need a stencil so you can sprinkle the sugar in the design you want. I was hoping one of my many star cookie cutters would be the right size, but none were perfect. I looked through my spare plastic container drawer, and used one of the sturdy plastic lids. Yes, I wash and save all sorts of plastic containers to reuse – did you see my Queen Elsa of Arendelle crowns from yogurt containers? 
Choose carefully, since if the plastic is too flimsy, you won’t be able to pull it off the sticky marshmallow without getting rogue sugar crystals in your design. Since I wanted white stars with blue around them, my star shape was in the middle, with 3 small strips connecting 3 points out to the 
area around my marshmallow. I made the open area plenty bigger than my marshmallow so the excess sugar would fall onto my surface to collect for more decorating. You can see my stencil ready for action here, with a marshmallow already completed.
I had found the gigantic marshmallows at the normal grocery store and thought they were fun, so I had bought several bags. I used my clean kitchen shears slightly damp to cut across the marshmallow, so I had two shorter circle marshmallows, each with a sticky open side. After cutting you need to squish your marshmallows back to round. You might 
need to pull them a little, but don’t pull them apart. Cut a few marshmallows to be ready, but don’t cut them all at once, or some will get too dry for the sugar to stick. Your scissors and fingers will get sticky enough along the way that washing a few times before restarting is a good break. Having the sticky side slightly drier than freshly-cut works better for releasing the stencil and still lets the sugar crystals stick well.
Place your stencil on the sticky side of the marshmallow and press it so it sticks on all edges, sprinkle your colored sugar over the top, then use your finger to brush the sugar crystals everywhere possible on the open sticky marshmallow until no sugar sticks any more. While the stencil is still stuck to the marshmallow, lift it all and tap off any excess sugar so it falls to the paper towel so you can collect it for the next marshmallow. Carefully pull the stencil and marshmallow apart, sideways so any loose sugar crystals don’t fall into the stencil area. If you are extremely picky like me, use your fingers to place a couple sugar crystals to cover where the stencil anchor lines were. Repeat until you have as 
many marshmallows as you like! I stored my finished marshmallows in an airtight cookie tin, with wax paper between layers, and that worked great for several days until the party.
For display, both graham cracker squares were set out first, then traditional Hershey bar milk chocolate squares, then the star marshmallows on top. Arranged on my large silver tray, they turned out just like my vision of the stars on the American flag!
Since the fireworks are only one block away from my house, the entire neighborhood is crammed full of cars trying to leave after the fireworks are over…so instead we roasted marshmallows! I save pruning scraps as firewood, so we built our little fire in my firepit, roasted our marshmallows on super-slick telescoping roasting forks I found years ago, and enjoyed our Star-Spangled S’mores!
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