Frozen Mississippi Mud Pie

Name: Frozen Mississippi Mud Pie
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 225 g/8 oz crushed biscuits, such as Duchy Originals organic ginger, orange, or any digestives or ginger nuts; 1 litre/1¾ pints caramel ice cream, slightly softened (see Ices) - you can use coffee etc or anything you prefer with a variety of added flavours such as liqueurs and alcohols; 170 g/6 oz unsalted butter, melted; 115 ml/¼ pint whipping cream; 115 g/4 oz plain chocolate, melted; 2 eggs, separated

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

This is a frozen version of the cold tart, which is as close to the authentic American as I can find - with a few personal twists, like using caramel ice cream. You can of course use any ice cream you fancy making - or buying.

Ingredients

Base

225 g/8 oz crushed biscuits, such as Duchy Originals organic ginger, orange, or any digestives or ginger nuts

Americas
United States
Vegetarian
Winter
Pie

Method

Butter a 23 cm (9 in) loose bottomed cake tin.

Mix the biscuits with the melted butter. Fill the cake tin with the biscuits and press over the bottom easing about