Recipe(tried): Holiday Eggnog Pie

This recipe is from Grandma Rose's Book of Sinfully Delicious Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Cheese Cakes, Cake Rolls and Pastries by Rose Naftalin. I have made this pie several times and it is always delicious. It's hard to wait for Christmas to make it! I like to use her recipe for Graham Cracker Crumb Crust with this but you can also use a Chocolate Wafer Pie Crust.

Holiday Eggnog Pie

1, 9-inch Graham Cracker Crumb Crust or Chocolate Wafer Pie Crust (recipes below)
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
1/4 c. cold water
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/8 tsp. salt
2 cups commercial eggnog
1 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoons rum
1 c. heavy cream, whipped

Topping
1 cup heavy cream. whipped
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup rum

Prepare pie crust. Sprinkle gelatin on water to soften. In a saucepan, mix together the sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Gradually stir in the eggnog. Cook in top of double boiler, stirring constantly until thiskened. Remove from heat and stir in the softened gelatin until disolved. Divide filling in half. Add melted chocolate and vanilla to one half. Set aside. Allow remaining half to cool and then add the rum and the whipped cream.

Pour the rum-flavored mixture into the pie shell, the pour the chocolate mixture on top and finish as follows:

Topping
Beat all ingredients together and pipe the top of the pie with a pastry tube. Sprinkle with chocolate curls or place commercial stars around rim of pie. Chill several hours before serving. (I think this is best made a day before you plan to serve it. It gives a chance for the flavors to develop.)

Graham Cracker Crumb Crust
This recipe makes enough "dough" to line a 10' spring-form pan or pie pan.

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped almonds (i usually use pecans.)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 c. melted sweet butter

Combine all ingredients. Press the mixture evenly onto bottom and sides of greased pie pan or spring-form pan. Chill.

Chocolate Wafer Pie Crust
This recipe covers a 9-inch pie pan.

1 1/2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs (Nabisco Famous Wafer Cookies.)
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup melted sweet butter

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Thoroughly mix the chocolate crumbs, sugar and butter. Press the crumbs against the sides of greased pie pan. Bake for 5 minutes. Chill.