Do you want to discover escargot cooking? You’ll be saying, “Escarg-oh goodness!” after eating this dish. To fully savor all of that delicious, garlicky butter, serve with crusty bread.
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 9-inch pie |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- 1 quart mint chocolate chip ice cream
- 4 tablespoons creme de menthe liqueur
- 1 cup crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
- 3 egg whites
- salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 teaspoons creme de menthe liqueur
- ⅓ cup white sugar
Instructions
- Combine 1 1/2 cups cookie crumbs and melted butter or margarine. Press firmly over bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch pie pan. Freeze.
- Spread half of softened ice cream in crust. Drizzle 2 tablespoons creme de menthe and sprinkle 1/2 cup cookie crumbs over the ice cream. Repeat. Freeze till firm.
- In a clean bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Add salt and cream of tartar, and beat until slightly stiff. Gradually beat in sugar until peaks form. Fold in 2 teaspoons creme de menthe. Spread meringue over pie, and seal to edges. Freeze up to 24 hours.
- Just before serving, broil until top is golden.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 541 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 57 g |
| Cholesterol | 120 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 17 g |
| Sodium | 268 mg |
| Sugars | 42 g |
| Fat | 30 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is a decadent show stopping dessert. We like a high meringue so I added an extra egg white and a little more sugar. The only suggestion I have is that it is necessary to remove the pie from the freezer fifteen minutes before serving. Otherwise it is too hard to cut.
I made this for an early St. Patrick’s Day dinner dessert, and everyone really enjoyed it! It was a little difficult to get out of the pie plate though. The bottom cookie crust was frozen solid – even after letting it sit out for a bit. I wonder if greasing the pie plate first a bit might help to release the bottom crust while still frozen, or setting the pie plate in a pan of shallow warm water. The taste was delicious! If you like chocolate and mint – this one is definitely a winner!
I made this for our St. Patrick’s Day Dinner club. All guests gave it a thumbs up! I was short on time, so I used the Nabisco pre made Oreo pie crust…worked out great. I couldn’t find higher quality brand in choc. mint at our store, so I used a “regular” brand. It still tasted great. Because I love “presentation” I would swirl a little melted chocolate on the plate next time before putting the pie slice on the plate. The slice with the layers makes a nice presentation. I would love to experiment with different flavors like raspberry ice cream with chambord liquer using the same concept!
It was fantastic! All my realtives loved it!
very easy, pretty good!
I doubled the ingredients and made this in a 9 by 13 inch pan to take for a birthday party and everybody loved it. I didn’t have enough mint-chocolate icecream, so I used vanilla for the bottom layer. The cut pieces looked very pretty with the different colors.
This went over huge! I ended up using peppermint extract and green food colouring instead of creme de menthe as I could only find a $20 bottle of the stuff, and I was not spending that kind of money on something I needed only a few tablespoons of. I think I should have either lined the bottom with wax paper or sprayed it with no stick pray b/c I had a hard time getting the pieces of pie out. But it was so incredibly delicious.
My brother and my dad loved it. I made it twice during my spring break!
Very good dessert recipe. I served this for our St. Patrick’s Day dinner, and it was a big hit. Will make a good summer-time dessert.
This one was a winner! My guests finished it off and made me promise to bring 2 pies to their next St. Patrick’s party.
Delicious and easy to make. We used Haagen Daaz mint chocolate chip ice cream and this came out to die for! Everyone devoured it. Definitely plan to make this one again!
You can also use chocolate ice cream if you kids eating it. This pie is a wonderful treat at picnics and for Thanksgiving.
Use a good quality mint ice cream. A food torch on the meringue before serving makes it easy. Kids will eat this up.
This is an awesome ice cream pie recipe!!!!! Very cool and refreshing! Easy to prepare (in steps) and disappears quickly! I would highly recommend this pie to anyone who loves the taste of mint and chocolate!