Yield: 8 servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
¼ cup | Butter or margarine,melted |
2 ounces | Unsweetened chocolate, melted |
⅔ cup | Sugar |
1 large | Egg |
24 \N | Chocolate wafers |
½ cup | Semisweet chocolate chips, |
¼ cup | Milk |
½ teaspoon | Vanilla |
½ cup | All-purpose flour |
1 can | Cherry pie filling |
3 tablespoons | Butter or margarine,melted |
2 teaspoons | Whipping cream |
CHOCOLATE CRUST
FROSTING
Combine butter, chocolate, sugar, egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well.
Add flour and nuts; beat well. Spread batter into crust. Bake in a 350'F. oven until top looks dry and feels firm when gently touched, 18-20 minutes. cool; spread top with frosting. When frosting is cool, transfer cherries from can with a slotted spoon to top dessert.
*** CHOCOLATE CRUST *** Finely crush chocolate wafers to make 1¼ cups crumbs; pour into a 9" pie pan. Mix with 3 tablespooons melted butter or margarine and press firmly over pan bottom and up side.
Bake in a 350'F. oven until darker brown at rim, 8-10 minutes, cool.
*** FROSTIMG *** In a 1- to 1 ½ quart pan over low heat, stir ½ cup semisweet chocolate baking chips with 2 tablespoons whipping cream just until snooth. Use warm.
~ Gale Franko, Pullman, Washington