Moon Pies are a Tennessee treat, a little marshmallow sandwich featuring round graham crackers and then a thin mockolate coating. They’ve been around since 1917, though they’re a bit of a regional treat and sometimes hard to find. They’re something between a candy and a snack, because of the graham cracker element. They’re also pretty big, so I can see why it’s an appealing idea to morselize them.
Taste of Nature makes Cookie Dough Bites and a variety of other little morsel items sold in theater boxes. The Moon Pie Bites sound pretty good, “Delicious marshmallow & graham in a chocolatey coating.” Well, until you get to the coating part.
The pieces actually smell pretty good. They vary in size, but most are between the size of a pea and a garbanzo.
The the description says it’s marshmallow, it’s actually just marshmallow flavored and there’s no gelatin in the list of ingredients. So these are fine for vegetarians and they’re Kosher. However, it is a mockolate coating, which is made from sugar and palm oil and whey and some cocoa, among other ingredients. It looks decent, but doesn’t really add a chocolate component to this combination candy.
The overwhelming scent of the pieces is graham. It’s a pleasant cereal sort of smell, kind of like vanilla and digestive biscuits and maple syrup.
The pieces are a bit crumbly and dry inside. They’re grainy and have little crumbly graham cracker bits in them. The mockolate coating is neither waxy or greasy, so that’s kind of a blessing. It’s a little cool on the tongue but doesn’t really ruin the otherwise disappointing candy. All elements are equally bad. The center has little sugary bits, the vanilla flavor is overly fake, the graham bits have little of the crunch of real crackers and the chocolatey coating isn’t chocolatey.
Moon Pie Bites contain wheat, milk and soy. They area also made in a facility with peanuts, tree nuts and eggs.
Related Candies
- Annabelle’s Rocky Road S’Mores
- Brach’s S’mores Candy Corn
- Sugarfina: The Chocolates
- Russell Stover Big Bite Dark Chocolate S’Mores
- Cookies ‘n’ Cream Bites
- Cupcake Bites
- Cookie Dough Bites
ah, chocolatey the keyword for “don’t get your hopes up on this”. This is one of those things that is a great idea, in theory, but can’t match the real thing.
lol… That perfect white square in the middle of the sphere cracks me up… looks terrible
I picked these up at a dollar store before I movie once, and all I remember is that they were overwhelmingly, horribly, throat-searingly sweet. What a shame, especially down here in the Land of Moon Pies!
I too found these at Dollar Tree and made the mistake of buying 2 boxes thinking they might be good. They were horrible and I threw the boxes out. I’ll stick with the cookie dough bites!
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