I've been making ice cream pies for years. This Christmas I came up with a peppermint ice cream pie! Here's how you make it:
Take an Oreo pie crust and scoop softened peppermint ice cream (Dryers makes it) into the pie crust. Smooth it down evenly. Pour chocolate syrup on top, then sprinkle it with crushed candy canes. (I use the small candy canes and crush them when they are still in the cellophane.) After that, put the pie in the freezer to harden.
My husband doesn't like crunchy things in his ice cream, so I came up with a chocolate mint pie. All you do is take the same Oreo pie crust and cover the crust's bottom with chocolate mints, broken up into small pieces (I use Andes). You then add softened chocolate mint ice cream, smoothing it down evenly, and pour chocolate sauce on top.
Christmas Memories
It's funny how certain things stick with you. I remember that my little sister and I would make red and green paper chains and hang them all over our room. I remember that we went to confession once a year on Christmas Eve (God forgive us!). My Daddy would drive us, and somehow turned this dreaded event into a super fun time. I also remember how Daddy would pile us all into the car to drive around and look at the Christmas lights
Every year at our annual Christmas party, my Mama would serve cream cheese topped with red and green hot pepper jelly and surrounded by crackers. Recently, after all these years, I tried it, and couldn't stop eating!
Carly, my oldest daughter, said, "Mom, why in the world are you putting jello on cream cheese? Of course, she changed her tune when she tasted it. I plan to serve this extremely Christmasy hors d'oeuvre this week, and I challenge you to jump on the wagon too. You won't regret it.
I do have one question: does anyone else have a hard time spelling hors d'oeuvre? You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to look it up, and I still can't spell it. This "hors d'oeuvre" simply consists of red and green hot pepper jelly on top of a block of cream cheese, served with crackers. (I just discovered that Nabisco makes Christmas wheat thins!)
