Walking Lemon Pie Cup
Crushed golden sandwich cookies, shelf-stable lemon pudding, and a squirt of cream, eaten out of the bag.
- calories
- 480
- weight
- 4.5 oz
- cal / oz
- 107
- protein
- 3 g
- serves
- 4, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 5 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dessert
- No cook
- Cooler only
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Canoe / raft
- Vegetarian
- Nut free
- Eat in the bag
- Grab and go
- Needs a cooler
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Golden sandwich cookies | 1 standard package | animal crackers or graham bears work the same way |
|---|---|---|
| Lemon meringue pudding snack packs | 4 cups | shelf-stable, no fridge needed until opened |
| Canned whipped cream | 1 can | the only thing here that needs the cooler |
| Dried lemon peel | 1 tsp | optional, for the top |
Method
- Crush the cookies inside a heavy zip bag, one bag per person. Press with a palm or roll a water bottle over it. Leave some pieces coarse so there is texture under the pudding.
- Open the bag, spoon in a whole pudding cup, and stir it into the crumbs with a long spoon.
- Shoot whipped cream over the top and dust with lemon peel if you brought it.
- Eat straight from the bag. There is nothing to wash.
This is the pie taken apart and reassembled in a bag. Crumbs stand in for crust, pudding cups stand in for the filling and the curd, and canned cream replaces the meringue nobody wants to whip over a picnic table. Nothing bakes, nothing sets, and nothing gets washed afterward.
The only cold-chain item is the cream, so keep it in the cooler and treat the rest as pantry. Use a heavy freezer bag rather than a sandwich bag — pudding finds every weak seam, and a leak in the bottom of a food bag ends the dessert early.
Packing
Crush the cookies at home and portion them into freezer bags. Pudding cups stack flat in a bin. The whipped cream can lives in the cooler, valve up, or it sprays foam when you open it.
Variations
- No cooler: skip the cream and stir in a spoon of powdered milk with a little water for a thicker pudding.
- A drizzle of lemon curd from a squeeze tube under the cream sharpens it considerably.
- Vanilla pudding plus a packet of lemonade drink mix gets you close if lemon cups are hard to find.
https://campfirefoodie.com/walking-lemon-meringue-pie-recipe