GRASSHOPPER PIE

This pie is designed for applause.
The crust is rich and chocolaty, the
filling features two famous liqueurs.

9-INCH CHOCOLATE SHORT PIE SHELL

1 cup Bisquick baking mix
1/4 cup cocoa
2 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
3 tbsp boiling water

Heat oven to 450°

1 Combine baking mix, cocoa, sugar and
butter in small bowl. Add water; stir
vigorously until dough forms a ball and
cleans the bowl. (Dough will be puffy
and soft.)
2 Pat dough with lightly floured hands
into 9-inch pie pan, bringing up dough
to edge of pan.
3 Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Cool.

FILLING

1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/3 cup cold water
1 cup chilled whipping cream
1/2 can (18-oz size) Betty Crocker
vanilla pudding (1 cup)
1/4 cup white creme de cacao
1/4 cup green creme de menthe
Chocolate curls

Sprinkle gelatin on water in small
saucepan to soften. Stir over very
low heat until gelatin is dissolved.
In chilled bowl, beat cream until
stiff. Blend pudding and liqueurs into
whipped cream; fold in gelatin and, if
you like, green food color. Pour mixture
into pie shell. Chill at least 4 hours or
until set. Just before serving, garnish
with chocolate curls.
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Remove chilled pies from refrigerator
20 minutes before serving.

[From BETTY CROCKER'S BISQUICK COOKBOOK,
Seven mini cookbooks in one with step-by-step recipes,
Sixth printing 1977, Copyright © 1971, 1973 by General Mills, Inc.
124pp, p. 60.]

*Always wanted to try/taste this....