Woops, It's Been a While

Sorry for the delay in posting, everyone... Life sort of got in the way of blogging for the past month and a half. In short, I interviewed, was offered a job, accepted a job, and then moved to Portland, Maine for said job all in about 7 weeks. Yikes. But, the good news is that my new kitchen is lovely, and has plenty of space for cooking and baking, so I'm hoping to get back into it. This post is a good summer one. It does require some baking, but you can definitely get away with skipping the baking step... you'll see.

This is a Coffee Mudslide Oreo Pie. With ice cream. It's good.

There's tons of variations for this, and in my honest opinion, this recipe is not that creative of me. I'll list some of the additional things that I thought of adding at the bottom.

So what you'll need is:

1 Oreo pie crust

1/2 gallon Coffee ice cream (My favorite for this is Starbucks ice cream - it adds a really strong flavor and it's super good)

Extra Oreo's

To make the Oreo Pie Crust:

Crush 16-20 Oreo's in a food processor. Melt 3 tablespoons of butter and add to crushed Oreo's. Press into your pie plate. At this point you can bake it for 7 minutes at 350°F or you can just leave it. Either way, refrigerate the crust about 10 minutes until it's chilled.

To make the pie:

Let the ice cream soften for 10-ish minutes. Unless it's 100° in your house, then it probably won't take that long. While it's softening, crush some extra Oreo's in the food processor. These can also just be chopped up with a knife, it depends on how fine you want them.

Spread about half of the ice cream into the pie dish. Sprinkle some of your extra Oreo's on top of the ice cream. Make a nice layer. Spread the other half of the ice cream into the plate on top of the Oreo layer. Sprinkle the rest of the crushed Oreo's, and then decorate with Oreo's cut in half. Cover with tinfoil, put it back in the freezer, let it freeze back up, then serve.

Like I said, not that creative. But good.

So, some additional things I thought of adding:

Pecans

Hot Fudge (you could put this in the middle layer and/or on top)

Whipped Cream (on top)

Reese's PB cups

Different flavors of ice cream