I love Chanel and own a few pieces but the reality is Chanel ready to wear is out of my price range for clothing items. I’m also simple not willing to spend a ton of money on a single item of clothing. While I am adamantly against buying knockoffs, I love clothing and accessories inspired buy luxury designer brands. When I think of Chanel I think of great textured clothing like tweed, camellias, and pearls. Below are some pieces that feel very Chanel.

Black Tweed Dress Chanel has featured various black tweed dresses on the runway over the years.

Two Tone Shoes Chanel ballet flats are iconic, especially the two tone ones. I love the sligback style of these and the baby heel to give a little height.

Textured Ivory Cardigan In my opinion, Chanel does texture better than any other brand. This cardigan embodies that style. I’m a stickler for buttons…I find tons of great Chanel inspired cardigans that look beautiful but are ruined with cheap looking buttons. This cardigan has the best of both.

Pearl Necklace In most of the photos of Coco Chanel, she is wearing a pearl necklace. Pearl necklaces are something the brand always carries. This is a really timeless piece.

Floral Applique Sweater Camelias are synonymous with Chanel because it was Coco Chanel’s favorite flower that inspired designs and is always used on the packaging. In recent years the band has really leaned into using Camelias. While the flowers on the sweater are not camelias they do look similar.

Pearl Jeans Pearls are often used by the brand and I think these pearl jeans look very high end. From a distance the pearls might look like polka dots which is also fitting because Chanel featured quite a few polka dot pieces last year.

Black and White Tweed Jacket High contrast black and white clothes is something Chanel frequently does. I love the metallic threading in this jacket.

S’mores are one of the most underrated desserts. They are so simple and delicious but they are something you really need an open flame for and it almost feels wrong to make them unless your outdoors. Since I am not an outdoorsy person, I developed this cookie recipe to get my s’mores fix without leaving my home.

Makes approximately 32 Cookies

Ingredients 

2 cups all purpose flour 

1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup sugar free instant vanilla pudding mix (or regular instant vanilla pudding mix)

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt 

2 tsp vanilla extract 

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter 

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup granulated sugar 

2 eggs

1/2 cup mini dark chocolate chips

1/2 cup marshmallow bits (I haven’t seen these in stores, so I do order it)

Hershey’s milk chocolate bars for topping (about 32 squares) 

Mini marshmallows for topping 

Smoked salt for topping 

Instructions 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Melt the butter in a small pot and stir regularly until the fat solids begin to separate and toast (it will start to smell nutty and caramel like). Once the fat solids begin to toast, immediately remove from the heat and continue to stir so it doesn’t burn. Let cool to room temperature and resolidify. You can speed up the cooling process by placing the pot into a bowl filled with ice. 

In a bowl mix together the flour, graham cracker crumbs, instant vanilla pudding mix, baking powder, and salt. 

In a stand mixer cream together the brown butter and both types of sugar. Once the mixture becomes lighter in color, add the vanilla extract and eggs one at a time. 

Working in batches, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Once fully incorporated add the chocolate chips and marshmallow bits. The marshmallow bits can crumble so don’t over mix them.  

Use a cookie scoop to form the cookies and place on a baking sheet. Top the cookies with mini marshmallows and bake for 9 to 10 minutes. It helps to create a divot in the top of each cookie to place the mini marshmallows in, so they don’t roll off the cookie when baking.

Once the cookies are finished baking, place them on a wire baking rack to cool and top with smoky sea salt and Hershey’s chocolate immediately.

This recipe calls for a coupe of ingredients that you might be tempted to swap out (like the marshmallow bits and smoked sea salt) but I strongly encourage you to make it according to the recipe. I opted for mini marshmallows on top, and marshmallow bits in the cookie, because the mini marshmallows melt when baking which cause the cookie to not maintain it’s structure if you put them in the dough. I wanted marshmallow in the actually cookie so I put marshmallow bits in the dough. Adding the mini marshmallows on top still gives the cookie that gooey marshmallow texture. The smoked sea salt gives the cookie the quintessential s’mores flavor. This is not your typical chocolate chip cookie and I promise it is worth going the extra mile for them.

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