Chocolate Hazelnut Moonpies with Goat Cheese Marshmallow
Chocolate Hazelnut Moonpies with Goat Cheese Marshmallow
A Southern snack with keto-friendly goat cheese marshmallows. This southern favorite is bound to bring back childhood memories for some. For this moonpie recipe, we sub in chocolate shortbread cookies and dip them in a vegan date-based chocolate hazelnut spread. But it’s our secret ingredient—a home-made marshmallow filling with goat cheese that really takes it over the top. We wouldn’t blame you if you choose to snack on these keto-friendly marshmallow sans cookie. Overall, there’s just enough sweetness for this dessert to be sinfully good without being overpowering.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Moonpies with Goat Cheese Marshmallow
A Southern snack with keto-friendly goat cheese marshmallows. - Prep Time : 10 min.
- Cook Time : 5 min.
- Total Time : 15 min.
- Makes 10-15 Moonpies
Ingredients
- For The Goat Cheese Marshmallows:
- 7.5 oz. Vermont Creamery goat log
- 12.35 oz. heavy cream
- 1 tsp gelatin powder
- 2 tsp lecithin powder
- For The Moonpies:
- 3 4oz. packs of Rustic Bakery Cacao Nib Shortbreads
- 5 oz. Cloudforest Magic Spread
- 2 Tbsp + 1 tsp coconut oil
- ½ cup blanched unsalted hazelnuts
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt or finishing salt
Directions
- First make the marshmallows. Begin by melting the goat cheese into half of the cream in a small saucepan.
- Remove from the heat and sprinkle the gelatin and lecithin across the top of the mixture. Let sit for roughly 20 seconds before whisking to combine.
- Place the saucepan with the gelatin, cream and goat cheese mixture into an ice bath and cool for 2 minutes.
- Meanwhile, beat the remaining cream to form stiff peaks. Fold the whipped cream into the cooled gelatin, cream and goat cheese mixture and place in the refrigerator to chill.
- In a food processor or large plastic bag with a mallet or rolling pin, roughly crush the hazelnuts. Set aside.
- Lay half of the sandwich cookies flat on a large baking sheet lined with wax paper. Spoon the chilled goat cheese marshmallow into a piping bag and pipe a Tbsp or so of marshmallow onto each shortbread.
- Close the moonpie sandwich by placing the remaining shortbreads, one on top of each of the open faced sandwiches you’ve just piped marshmallow onto.
- Place the magic spread and coconut oil into a microwave safe dish and heat in 30 second intervals until the ingredients are viscous and mix together homogeneously.
- Dip half of each sandwich into the melted magic spread and place back on the wax paper-lined baking sheet.
- Finish by sprinkling crushed hazelnuts onto each moonpie. Chill for at least 30 minutes and serve.