Cork And Cleaver Mud Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 c. chocolate wafers
1 c. (8 oz.) margarine
3 lb. coffee ice cream
1/2 c. hot fudge chocolate topping
whipped cream
sliced, toasted almonds

Preparation

Crush wafers into fine crumbs and mix thoroughly with melted margarine.
Press into a 9-inch pie tin about halfway up the sides.
Crust should be about 1/8-inch thick.
Firm in freezer for 15 minutes.
Whip softened ice cream until smooth.
Fill pie shell so that top is mounded to 3-inches in the center and less than 1-inch on the edges.
Place in freezer to harden.
When ice cream is firm, spread topping to 1/8-inch thickness all over top and return to freezer to harden.
Serve on a chilled plate.
(Suggest you also chill server.)
Top each slice with whipped cream and sliced, toasted almonds.