Recipe: No-Bake Ice Cream Pie

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From: Kelly~WA

No-Bake Ice Cream Pie

2 squares unsweetened chocolate
2/3 cup sifted confectioner's sugar
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups snipped coconut
2 tbsp. hot milk or water
1 to 2 pint ice cream

CHOCO-COCONUT CRUST

Grease 8" pie plate. In double boiler, melt chocolate and butter; stir to blend. Combine milk and sugar; stir into chocolate mixture. Add coconut- mix well. Press to bottom and sides of pie plate. Refrigerate, to make firm. About 15 min. before serving, remove and let stand at room temperature. To serve, fill with ice cream.

To freeze:
Form chocolate-coconut shell; fill at once with ice cream. Wrap and freeze. To serve, first let stand 15 min.

Coconut-Crust Pie:
Spread 2 tbsp. butter or margarine evenly in 8-inch pie plate. Pat 1 1/2 cups
shredded coconut evenly into butter. Bake at 350F 12 to 15 min. or until crisp and golden brown. Cool; serve as above, packing ice cream well into coconut shell.