Elvis Moon Pie Recipes

THE ITALIAN ELVIS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Arrange the bacon slices side by side on a parchment-lined baking sheet; bake until crisp, 15 to 18 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
• Meanwhile, place the bananas in a small bowl and mash with a fork until smooth. Fold in the mascarpone until combined.
• Spread a thick layer of chocolate-hazelnut spread on 4 bread slices, then top each with 3 bacon slices. Spread the banana-mascarpone mixture on the remaining 4 bread slices, then place on top to make 4 sandwiches.
• Spread butter on both sides of the sandwiches. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches if necessary, cook the sandwiches on each side until GBD-golden brown and delicious.
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SOUTHERN MOON PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
• To Make Cookie Crusts: In a large mixing bowl, cream together 1/2 cup butter or margarine and white sugar. Add egg, evaporated milk, and vanilla. Mix well. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder. Add flour mixture slowly to sugar mixture while stirring. Mix just until all ingredients are combined.
• Drop the dough onto greased cookie sheet by rounded tablespoonfuls. Leave at least 3 inches in between each one; dough will spread as it bakes.
• Bake in preheated oven for 6 to 8 minutes, until firm when pressed with finger. Allow to cool at least one hour before filling.
• To Make Marshmallow Filling: In a medium mixing bowl, blend together 1/2 cup butter or margarine, confectioners' sugar, flavored extract, and marshmallow creme. Mix until smooth. Assemble pies by spreading 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls of filling on flat side of a cookie crust, then covering filling with flat side of another cookie crust.

ELVIS PIE

Steps:

• Make the crust: Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). On a foil-lined baking sheet, cook the bacon until it is super crispy, but not burnt. Remove it from the oven (keep the oven on), and drain the bacon on paper towels. When the bacon is cool enough to handle, process it in a food processor with the cookies until you've got fine crumbs. Mix the crumbs with the fat until the crumbs are the consistency of wet sand. Press them firmly into a 9-inch (23-cm) pie plate and chill the crust until firm. Bake the crust for about 10 minutes. Allow it to cool completely.
• Make the filling: Prepare an ice bath. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolks lightly. In a large saucepan over medium heat, whisk together the milk, granulated sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Bring the mixture to a simmer but do not let it boil, whisking constantly for 4 minutes.
• Temper the egg yolks by whisking them constantly as you ladle in a thin stream of the hot milk mixture. Add another ladleful of milk, whisking constantly, then pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan of hot milk as you whisk. Cook it over medium-high heat, whisking steadily, until the custard is thick and you see small bubbles breaking the surface, about 3 minutes. Remove it from the heat, whisk in the vanilla, and set the pan in the ice bath. Stir it occasionally with a spatula until fully cooled. (This can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to 1 day, covered tightly with plastic wrap. Make sure the plastic touches the surface of the custard, to prevent a skin from forming.)
• To assemble the pie, slice the bananas lengthwise or in circles, whichever you prefer, and arrange a layer of them in the bottom of your pie crust. Cover them with a layer of pudding, then repeat with the remaining banana slices and pudding.
• Make the topping: In a stand mixer, with a hand mixer, or by hand with a whisk, whip the cream, powdered sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla until stiff peaks form. Pile the whipped cream onto the pie filling and top it with the chopped nuts, if desired.

OLD FASHIONED MOON PIE

Steps:

• Melt marshmallows with 2 tbls milk in pan over low heat, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat, cool, fold in 1 cup whipped topping.
• Refrigerate mixture while preparing remainder of pie.
• In large bowl, combine remaining milk with pudding, whisk for 2 minutes.
• Fold in remaining cool whip, spoon into pie shell.
• Arrange layer of vanilla wafers on top and spread with chilled marshmallow mixture.
• Refrigerate 4 hours.
• Drizzle with chocolate syrup before serving.

ELVIS PIE

Steps:

• to make crust preheat oven to 350 degrees. spray pan with pam type spray . in seperate container mix crushed up cracker crumbs with melted margarine,sugar stir til well incorporated. pour into sprayed prepared pan. Cook crust til golden brown in oven around 9-12 minutes. Remove from oven to cool. Next in a mixing bowl prepare pudding, when thickened add peanut butter to pudding then add 4 0z. of whipped topping. stir til all is mixed well.
• Place 1 sliced bananna on top of cooled crust. Then add half of the mixed pudding on top of the bannanas and crust spread to the corners. top with the left over whipped topping. top the with the rest of bannanas and finish off with chocolate syrupdrizzled over the top. Now refridgerate for at least 2 hours so it will cut nicely.

SIMPLE MOON PIES RECIPE (AKA WHOOPIE PIES)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Cover baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Mix cake mix, oil, water, eggs, vanilla, and pudding mix until smooth - about 2 minutes.
• Spoon rounded scoops of dough onto parchment paper about 2 inches apart. Cook for 10-11 minutes. You should get about 36 cookies which will yield about 18 whoopie or moon pies.
• Let set on baking sheet for about 1-2 minutes before removing from cookie sheet. Let cool completely.