I like to cook. I’ve liked to cook since I was a kid. I collect recipe books and look forward to using them this summer. I particularly like to make/bake sweets, though increasingly I enjoy making them more than I like eating them. My first brush with dessert-making was when I was in elementary school, and hoo boy, what an intro.
The recipe in question was called “Puffy Pebble Pie.” This abomination came from a recipe book I got in my school library. If my memory is correct, it was called The Kid’s Microwave Cookbook. I have scoured the internet for this title, because for some deranged reason I want to make this sugary horror again. I have not been able to locate one. I did find a different book with the same title, but it was a different collection of recipes. I don’t think this cookbook was indie published (which wasn’t really a thing when I was that young, and I doubt my school library would have stocked the cookbook if it wasn’t traditionally published). My brain is wanting to say it was a Betty Crocker publication, but I could be wrong. If anyone finds this thing, please send it, or a link, my way.
Now, why do I call this recipe an abomination? Draw your own conclusions from the ingredients list (again, from memory):
40 large marshmallows
Butter
Chocolate Ovaltine
2 cups of malted milk balls (1 cup crushed, 1 cup intact)
Pie crust
Microwave the marshmallows, butter, and Ovaltine until melted (I used a nonstick pan with my mom’s supervision). Mix in the crushed malted milk balls. Pour into pie crust. Dot with intact malted milk balls. Place in refrigerator until firm. Slice, eat, and witness your blood glucose level reach levels that will cofound even a hospital grade glucometer.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
I want to find it again.
Who wants to live forever, anyway?
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