MOON PIES???

i am fortunate enough to frequent one lucky duck but it can get pricey, so i make a moonpie similar enough to theirs to aid my hankering for one lucky duck moon pies.
you can use any basic raw chocolate sauce/shell & any basic brownie recipe you'd like
the creme is more or less these amounts (i never measure!):
1 cp cashews
2.5 cps almond milk
3 tspns vanilla extract
1 tspn vanilla bean powder
2 tblspn cocoa butter (warmed to liquify)
1 tblspn coconut oil (warmed to liquify)
1/4 cp agave
1/2 cp agave powder
3 tblspn soy lecithin

blend all ingredients and pour into some sort of container & refrigerate until it thickens, which is about 6-8 hrs. again, this is all approximately what i use. good luck!

HI Tori-

Thanks for that recipe...it looks so marshmallow-y in the photos...

Where do you get agave powder? Also, can I make it without soy lecithin? I am trying to avoid soy.

Thanks!

Dafodil

HI Tori-

Thanks for that recipe...it looks so marshmallow-y in the photos...

Where do you get agave powder? Also, can I make it without soy lecithin? I am trying to avoid soy.

Thanks!

Dafodil

hmm, you can make it without soy but you'd have to add a lot more cashews OR an alternative thickener. the soy lecithin is the thickener. i ordered my agave powder, cocoa butter & vanilla bean powder from http://www.rawguru.com/
hope it works!

Any reason your trying to avoid soya? It isnt what its made out to be by the myths.

Soya & The Myths

Sorry to interrupt; I haven't had the Moon Pie, but I did have the Mallomar at PF&W--delicious, of course. And I suspect they use the same creme for both desserts. Anyway, I found that the vanilla cream recipe in the Real Food Real World book was nearly identical, though I think the recipe I made was just a little too sweet.

I took the book out from the library and don't have it here, but I strongly recommend seeking it out. Their recipe had no lecithin or agave powder (not that I think those are evil); it was basically coconut flesh, soaked cashews, agave, coconut oil, vanilla, and water.

There is a sunflower lethicin from raw food world that works great!

http://jrox.therawfoodworld.com/jrox.php?id=1625

And someone wrote a whole moon pie raw recipe book:
http://www.sweetlyraw.com/2010/03/moon-pies-recipe-ebook.html

I also found sunflower seed lecithin at Crudessence, Montreal (www.crudessence.com)... Hope you'll can find :)

Thanks all!! I will try the recipe for Vanilla creme..I have both of her books and love them!

D.

You could also use agar or irish moss. They are both thickeners and you can find them semi-raw.