Make Classic Moon Pies at Home

Yahoo Food ^ | Feb 27, 2014 | Sara Bonisteel

[kingattax]

Mardi Gras is Tuesday, March 4, and this year as part of our Fat Tuesday celebration, we asked recipe developer Raquel Pelzel to create a homemade version of MoonPies, a classic treat often tossed from the floats during parades in the Gulf Coast.

Although the MoonPie was born in Tennessee, it’s really a staple in the Gulf South—Mobile, Alabama, even drops an illuminated MoonPie for New Year’s Eve, so we thought who better than Pelzel, who worked with David Guas on his book, DamGoodSweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style, to help us create this recipe.

[kingattax]

who can say no to a moon pie ?

[Georgia Girl 2]

We love the peanut butter ones. Mmmmm!

[Veto!]

I think they look disgusting. Friends like them, one asked me to make them, but I don’t want to be in the same room with such excess.

[TexasCajun]

For those poor soles that have no idea about the little creamery in Brenham, Texas.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Dr. Ursus]

This was on Yahoo foods. The irony is off the charts!

[kingattax]

you could get hurt using “disgusting” and “moon pies” in the same breath in Tennessee, amigo.

[miss marmelstein]

Not me! No patriotic American (all three of us) could turn down a Moon Pie!

[fwdude]

Do they have “Moon Pie” Blue Bell yet? Oh, man!!!!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Did you say Mooooon pies???

[OpusatFR]

You probably never had an RC cola either.

You a Yankee by any chance?

[DemforBush]

Moon Pies and King’s Cake = yum!

[DemforBush]

Man, that looks good! I love King Cake.

[Leroy S. Mort]

And wash it down with an R-uh-C Cola...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

An Arah Cee cola and a moon pie!

For those who can’t read southern, it is Royal Crown Cola and a moon pie!

[Slyfox]

[TexasCajun]

Blue Bell Flavors ...slide bar on left.

There is a Banana Pudding!!

[Freestate316]

As a kid I used to enjoy a moon pie with a Mr. Pibb at my uncle’s Phillips 66 superette on the Geneva Highway in Enterprise, Alabama. I haven’t had one in 40 years.

[miss marmelstein]

My pals in NC are horrified if you drink anything besides RC Cola with a moon pie. And Dukes Mayonnaise...but not with a Moon Pie.

[dmz]

I think they look disgusting. Friends like them, one asked me to make them, but I don’t want to be in the same room with such excess.

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Chocolate, marshmallow, and a cookie disgusting? Really?

Such excess? Too funny.

You have to have forgotten the /s