Cookies and Cream Pie
- 1 1/4 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs (9 cookies), plus 2 whole cookies
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup softened unsalted margarine or soft spread
- 13 cup plus 1 Tbs. fat-free fudge sauce
- 2 pints vanilla fudge low-fat frozen dessert, preferably soy
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- In large bowl, using a fork, mix cookie crumbs, sugar and margarine, finishing by lightly using your fingertips.
- Press mixture evenly over bottom and up sides of 9-inch pie pan.
- Bake until crust feels firm and darkens at edges, 9 to 10 minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
- Pour 1/3 cup fudge sauce into crust, tilting pan to coat evenly.
- Refrigerate or freeze until sauce is firm, at least 30 minutes.
- Fill crust with frozen dessert, spreading evenly with rubber spatula.
- Place pie in freezer until surface is firm, about 20 minutes.
- To decorate, drizzle remaining tablespoon fudge sauce around edge of pie.
- Crumble whole cookies over pie.
- Freeze pie until firm enough to cut, at least 4 hours, or cover with foil and freeze up to 5 days.
- Cut with a knife dipped in hot water.
chocolate wafer cookie crumbs, sugar, margarine, fudge sauce, vanilla
Taken from www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/cookies-and-cream-pie/ (may not work)