They weren't "Cakesters"
Okay, I got into a conversation with my cousins recently, about growing up [in the 1950s, in Brooklyn]. We all remember one particular Nabisco creation from childhood. They were sandwich type cookies, and they looked like Cakesters - sort of. They were smaller than Cakesters, and the cookies surrounding the marshmallowy center were soft (rather than hard or crispy) and dry. (The Cakester monstrosities are so sticky/tacky that they stick to your fingers when you hold them. The earlier things that we remember, also had a bit of what I recall as an apricot-tasting blob holding the marshmallowy thing, to the two side-cookies.
Anyone out there have a clue @ the name of these things? Cousins and I are slowly going nuts trying to remember!
Thanks, All!
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14 Comments:
Like a moonpie?
Cassaendra at 7:25PM on 12/03/08
Whoopie Pie?
izatryt at 7:36PM on 12/03/08
Scooter Pie?
chisai at 8:42PM on 12/03/08
there you go with the woopie again.
dearrie at 8:46PM on 12/03/08
Yeah, i think it sounds like a moonpie, too.
CassieRose at 8:48PM on 12/03/08
Ha Ha Dearrie! Maybe I should change my screen name.
izatryt at 8:54PM on 12/03/08
moonpies?
juliebugsmama at 9:32AM on 12/04/08
Sounds like a Polish cookie, but i can't remember the name. The apricot part was what really made me think of that. I bet you could find something similar in an eastern european import market. Or online.
Kerosena at 11:51AM on 12/04/08
I had never heard of Cakesters before this post (hopelessly out of touch on that kind of stuff), but a quick search found the answer here:
Nabisco Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies
There is also a link to a pdf of a piece of packaging from 1974.
LoCo at 12:47PM on 12/04/08
They were simply called "Marshmallow Sandwiches" and I have also lamented their demise! I loved these! Several years ago I actually wrote Nabisco but was told they would not be reinstated. There's a picture of them here, and more info
http://www.neiluchitel.com/?p=435
jinx35 at 4:20PM on 12/04/08
Well, I've got my answer: Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies! @loCo and @jinx35 - Before the blue box packaging, they came in a single box, white and shortbread-cookie-colored [waxed] box wrapper. THank you!
And thanks to all others - Moon Pies are still sold (there's even a song that mentions MPs, "Junk Food Junkie" from the 1970s); oddly, I've seen them @ school lunchroom vending machines! (They're touted as low-fat, now.) And then there are the Scooter Pies, long advertised by Phil "The Scooter" Rizzuto. They're still around too; I've seen them in a box of 10 or 12, and in a pack of mini-sized ones. But both Scooter Pies and Moon Pies are covered in chocolate - the Marshmallow Sandwich cookies that I remember were completely naked, just cookies sandwiching a blob of marshmallow.
Robbo at 12:05AM on 12/05/08
I don't remember those cookies and I've never heard of Cakesters. I looked up Moon Pies and Scooter Pies and they look slightly familiar.
I grew up in an alternate universe where all treats were homemade, except Oreos.
PerkyMac at 1:14AM on 12/05/08
I am telling you, they are Whoopie Pies!
izatryt at 9:50AM on 12/05/08
@PerkyMac - "Nilla Cakesters" are a god-awful Nabisco travesty that shoves a "creme/marshmallow/eeeewwww" center between two nasty, sticky, tooth-hurting, overly-sweet, soft versions of Nilla wafers. They would have been better left uncreated. You can find some info @ them at... http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/nilla-cakesters/
Robbo at 2:12PM on 12/05/08