Perfect S'more Brownies

  What makes these brownies so perfect? Well, lean in close and I'll tell you...

 But First, let me say I hope you had an incredible and memorable Memorial Day weekend and safe travel and are full of lots of Memorial treats. But by now you've probably had a sugar crash and you need a little pick-me-up, correct? Something perhaps, summery, gooey, chocolatey? Of course you do.

 But first, I have to tell you what happened to me this weekend. It all started when I was born.
 As my mother gave birth, my father and mother instantly knew this was their favorite thing they had done that day. But a problem arose. Not only was their new daughter their favorite thing they had gotten that day, she had a very bad habit of getting into dangerous situations.
 At age 6 she was playing "Bar" in the barn with her brother and fell off a ladder whilst reaching for an empty whisky bottle and scrapped her arm. She returned home and administered hydrogen peroxide herself trying to keep her parents in the dark. But they were not fooled.
 At age 10 she was out riding the family sheep, when she dismounted she lost her flip flop and it fell a few feet away. She decided an empty glass bottle would support her weight as she grabbed the shoe, but unfortunately she was never good at physics, and she had three stitches.
 Being so prone to danger, her mother appropriately gifted her with a bottle of pepper spray for her 21st Christmas. Father insisted she carry it with her at all times.
  She dutifully complied, attaching the keychain pepper spray to her keys, and uneventfully wielded it until three days ago.
  Walking back to her car after a successful and extravagant shopping spree, she froze and looked over her shoulder. She scanned the parking lot suspiciously and unsheathed her pepper spray, her eyes two little slits. Alas, false alarm, there was no one in the parking lot. So she shrugged and got in the car. Her eye itched, so she scratched it good and hard. Suddenly the world was on fire.
 Her eye cried like a waterfall. Pain shot through her entire body, spreading from her eye like wildfire. Never was worse pain endured so bravely. Thoughts raced through her mind. Had someone poisoned her? Shot her eye from afar with a microscopic dart? Had she unknowingly eaten a jalapeno through her eyeball?
  She dialed her father's number in sheer, blind panic, when this train of thought entered into her brain.
 Father = Protection
 Protection = Protective
Protective = Overprotective
Overprotective = ........Pepper Spray

Somehow, somewhere, somewhy, the pepper spray had leaked upon my finger. And one itchy eye was all it took to inflict the most fearsome eye-pain I had ever felt. I drove my car with only one eye to my grandma's house a couple blocks away. She calmly administered eye drops to the crippled eyeball of her granddaughter and saved the day.
 At least we know now. Pepper spray works.


And now, what you've all been waiting for...

           And the secret ingredient is dun dun dun dun dunnnn........................ MAPLE SYRUP

And here is how you do it.

Perfect S'more Brownies 

What you will need:

• 1/4 cup Veggie Oil
• 1/4 Cup Melted Butter (Half a stick)
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla 
• 1 Tablespoon Maple Syrup 
• 1/3 Cup All Purpose Flour (Or oat flour for gluten free)
• 1/2 Cup Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder
• 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
• 1/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder 
• 4 1/2 Graham Crackers (Omit or use gluten free) 
• 2 Cups Marshmallows 
• 1 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips

What you will do:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• In a mixing bowl beat melted butter, veggie oil, and sugar until sugar dissolves
• Beat in egg, vanilla, and maple syrup
• In a separate bowl whisk together flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder
• Stir into wet mixture 
• Grease an 8 inch square dish and dust with flour and/or cocoa powder
• Pour in 1 Cup of brownie butter
• Lay graham crackers over batter
• Layer chocolate chips and marshmallows
• Pour on remaining brownie batter
• Bake 25 minutes 

• Cut into squares 

• Devour