Peppermint Fudge Pie

Submitted by Auntie Mags

"A fantastic and different dessert. A real hit with my kids!"

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 20mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 1 pie

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups chocolate wafers, crushed
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1⁄4 cup margarine or 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 3 1⁄4 cups mini marshmallows
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
• 1⁄2 teaspoon peppermint extract
• red food coloring

directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Combine wafer crumbs, sugar and margarine or butter and press into 9 inch pie plate.
3. Bake at 325 degrees for 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
4. Melt 3 cups marshmallows with milk over low heat. Stir until smooth.
5. Chill until slightly thickened.
6. Tint with food coloring and mix well.
7. Fold in whipped cream, remaining 1/4 cup marshmallows and extract.
8. Pour into crust. Wrap and freeze.
9. Before serving, unwrap and place in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
10. Garnish as desired.

Reviews

[jswinks]

Yummy! Was very rich, and smooth texture. I used Oreos for the crust and garnish. I probably could omit the sugar from the crust and would have been fine. I thought about trying with lower fat/sugar ingredients but since it was for photo tag game didn't want to risk it not turning out :) But I think I will try that next time. When I covered it, the foil touched the top of the pie so it wasn't as smooth anymore :( I just covered it up with Oreos on top though! I agree with other reviewer, could use a little less extract.

 

[GaylaV]

This pie has a very nice texture, sets up really nice. I didn't have any red food colouring so I sprinkled red sugar spinkles on top and it looked really nice. It has a very strong peppermint flavour, too strong in my opinion. If I make this again (the vote is that I will) I would only use 1/4 tsp. of extract. After tasting it I garnished the serving with chocolate syrup to decrease the peppermint a bit. It worked and not a crumb was left on any plate. I also wanted to say that even with all those marshmallows it does not taste overly sweet which is nice. Thanks for a very good recipe.