Mississippi Mud Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 (1 oz.) sq. unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 c. sifted powdered sugar
1/2 c. whipping cream
1/3 c. butter or margarine
3 Tbsp. vanilla extract
1 (9-inch) graham cracker crust
1 c. chopped pecans, divided
3 c. coffee flavored ice cream, softened and divided
sweetened whipped cream

Preparation

Melt chocolate in heavy saucepan over low heat. Add powdered sugar and next 4 ingredients. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat.
Stir in vanilla and let the mixture cool. Spread 1/2 cup chocolate sauce in crust.
Sprinkle with 1/4 cup pecans.
Freeze 10 minutes. Remove from freezer and spread 1 cup ice cream over pecans. Freeze 20 minutes. Repeat layers twice.
Cover pie and freeze at least 8 hours. Drizzle remaining chocolate sauce over pie.
Pipe whipped cream onto pie and sprinkle with remaining pecans.
Yields one 9-inch pie.