Pies!

If you need some pies for Christmas, here is one to try and one to skip unless you have a real jell-o lover in the family.

Chocolate Bar Pie

Ingredients

• 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
• 6 (1.45 ounce) bars milk chocolate with almonds, coarsely chopped
• 2 cups miniature marshmallows

• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions

1. Place chopped chocolate bars, marshmallows, milk, and salt in the top of a double boiler. Heat and stir until mixture is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool, stirring occasionally.
2. In a medium bowl, beat cream until soft peaks form. Fold cream into cooled chocolate mixture. Pour mixture into graham cracker crust. Chill before serving. This pie is also delicious frozen.

I made this one for our own Thanksgiving meal. It got rave reviews, but is pretty rich when topped with whipped cream as well.

Jell-o Easy Patriotic Pie

1 1/2 cups boiling water

1 pkg. (3 oz) jell-o berry blue flavor gelatin

1 cup ice cubes

1  honey maid graham pie crust (6 oz)

1 pkg. (3 oz) jell-o strawberry flavor gelatin, or any red flavor

1 cup thawed cool whip

Add 3/4 cup boiling water to blue gelatin mix; stir 2 minutes until completely dissolved. Add 12 cup ice cubes, stir until melted. Pour into crust; refrigerate 5 to 10 minutes or until set but not firm.

Meanwhile, repeat to dissolve red gelatin mix in separate bowl; stir in remaining ice cubes. Cool 5 minutes or until slightly thickened.

Spread cool whip over blue gelatin layer; cover with red gelatin. Refrigerate 2 hours or until set.

This one turned into a huge disaster! When I went to pour the red layer on, it was too forceful and pour right through the cool whip creating one solid layer of jello. But, some kids in our ward loved it when I took it to the pre-thanksgiving pie party. I will never make it again, though.

I also made a cherry pie for our Thanksgiving. Plus, the apple, pumpkin, and blueberry pie Dad brought over brought our pie total up to 6. 

I don't know what is wrong with my eye.