Tuesday, August 07, 2001


this heat is just ridiculous now, isn't it? it's time to throw off all constraints and helplessly plunge into the pool of childish desserts -- the kind of thing your inner 4-year-old would love but which you'd personally die before you admitted liking it to any of your present-day friends.

i mean, isn't this what the current trend for retro-desserts is all about?

so here goes: a no-cook childish dessert, the chocolate ice cream pie:

4 oz. chocolate chips (try to use callebaut)
2 oz. crispy rice cereal
1-1/2 oz. plugra/keller's european style butter
1 quart (4 cups) ice cream flavor of your choice

line a 9-in pie plate with foil and then line the bottom of the foil with baking parchment or waxed paper.

combine butter and chocolate chips in a microwave-proof bowl. set power on med-high and heat for 1 min. stir to melt chocolate and butter smoothly. if necessary, heat again for 30 seconds.

mix the rice cereal into the chocolate until well combined. thickly spread this mixture into the pie plate, all across the bottom and up the sides. give yourself a nice big rim, say 1-1/2 in. this will be the crust. chill for an hour, until hard.

when cold, remove the crust from the pan; peel off the foil and waxed paper. replace the crust in the pan. now spoon the ice cream of your choice into the crust. smooth it out and decorate with extra chocolate chips, whipped cream, and berries.

eat with guilty pleasure.

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