Texas Flood Pie

September 22, 2019

A Mississippi Mud Pie is a traditional Southern pie with a creamy chocolate filling on a chocolate crust, topped with whipped cream and pecans.  Shelly probably would totally choose that, but she found a recipe for something even more Shelly-like: a “Texas Flood Pie.”  This one featured peanut butter as well as chocolate. Surprisingly, Shelly (who often doesn’t care for nuts) left the pecans in, though she left half of the pie pecan-less for the kids.  Marshmallows too.  

But the special aspect of this pie was the crust. It was made from Ritz crackers. We’ve done saltines before in Atlantic Beach Pie, but Shelly has been excited for a Ritz crust for some time, due to their butteriness and saltiness. The recipe called for a little extra salt thrown into the crust, though, and we all kind of agreed that’s a little too much. The salt in the crackers would have been plenty. The rest of the pie was nutty and chocolatey and smooth – especially the layer of chocolate ganache at the bottom of the pie.