Homemade Ho Hos

[annachan]

For our office potluck, I'm going to make some Ho Hos. Found a recipe on the Food Network that I like. The one thing I want to do different is to fill it with a marshmallow center instead of a cream center.

I found 2 recipes that has potential. One is a marshmallow cream and the other is a filling for moonpies. By reading the recipes, it seems one would be more cream like and one closer to the texture of marshmallow, with the addition of gelatin.

Which would you think is better for the Ho Hos? I'm asking for suggestions since I don't think I'll have time to try both recipes. Love to hear your thought!

[gfron1]

I would go cream like since my recollection is that is what Ho Hos are. Now you're making me want SuzyQs.

[Sunny Simmons Steincamp]

If you want to go the marshmallow route, what about <b>nightscotsman</b>'s <a href="http://recipes.egullet.org/recipes/r240.html">recipe</a>? I've made them in a myriad of variations and so have many others, and they're unbeatable.

[Luckylies]

cream together marshmallow fluff and softened butter..it's the perfect filling for this sort of things...

[gfron1]

Emma - I must have missed this in any previous topic! You can incorporate butter into marshmallow? I'm fascinated...What does it do to it texturally?

[Lior]

What are ho-hos?!!

[Tri2Cook]

What are ho-hos?!!

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Chocolate sponges filled with sweetened hydrogenated fat and dipped in brown wax... but for some reason I remember liking them. I'm looking forward to seeing the homemade version.

[Lior]

Sounds, well, like perhaps the homemade version may be okay... Is it eaten on christmas- a christmas thing as in Ho-ho?

[Tri2Cook]

No, it's snack junk food. They're little chocolate cakes rolled with a white cream filling and dipped in a chocolate shell. Ho Ho's

[Lior]

Oh oh! watch out for the ho ho!! (couldn't resist) Yes, the package looks vaguely familiar! Thank you!!!