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Featured: Lucy’s and Nomadic Kitchen

Foodie cred: Richly chocolate gluten-free brownie crisps and unique marshmallow flavors like coffee cardamom

These cookies couldn’t be easier to make or more delicious! While they’re decorated for Halloween here, they’re just as impressive unadorned with two triangles of pillowy marshmallow sitting atop a brownie crisp and then drenched in melted chocolate.

For the local angle, place Vermont-made Lucy’s brownie crisps, which can be found in many Northeast grocery stores, on a piece of wax paper with a few inches in between each. As an added bonus, these richly chocolate thin squares are also gluten free. Top each crisp with a marshmallow from Nomadic Kitchen — another Vermont treasure — first cutting diagonally across the square-shaped confections with a knife to create two triangles. In the picture above, the long ends of the triangles are matched up with opposite edges of a brownie crisp so that two angles meet in the middle. Next, melt chocolate in the microwave with 1/4 to 1/2 a teaspoon of coconut oil and pour it over the top of the cookies, using a butter knife to smooth out the chocolate and ensure the entire surface is covered. Using the knife, lift one edge of a cookie, then carefully pick it up by the edges and move it to another sheet of wax paper. At this point you can decorate them if you wish or wait for them to harden. For Halloween-themed cookies, I used straight pretzels for the eyebrows, roasted pumpkin seeds for the eyes and dried mango slices cut into the shape of a mouth.

The cylindrical shape and sugary blandness of grocery store marshmallows wouldn’t work nearly as well for these cookies. Nomadic Kitchen’s dense yet fluffy delicacies come in an array of unexpected flavors like chocolate whiskey and coffee cardamom that, when sitting in between a brownie crisp and a coating of chocolate, deliver a more sophisticated take on the venerated Mallomar.

Click here to read Vermont Artisan Pantry’s profile of Nomadic Kitchen founder Alexx Shuman’s evolution from Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef to Vermont food artisan.

Shop gift box with Nomadic Kitchen marshmallows below.