Christmas Recipes
Peppermint Snow Pie
Create a winter wonderland with this festive recipe for a delicious Peppermint Snow white mousse pie. The light and creamy filling is sprinkled with crushed peppermint candy that will melt in your mouth.
Prep: 20 min | Cook: 10 min | Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 1/4 cups (8 crackers) chocolate Graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
Filling
- 1 envelope (7 grams) unflavored gelatin
- 2 tablespoons boiling water
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can Nestlé® Carnation® Evaporated Milk
- 1 cup (6 ounces) Nestlé® Toll House® Premier White Morsels
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
- 1/2 cup (about 24) coarsely chopped hard peppermint candies, divided
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9 inch deep-dish pie plate.
Crust
- Combine crumbs and sugar in pie plate. Stir in butter. Press crumb mixture onto bottom and up sides of prepared pie plate.
- Bake for 8 minutes.
- Cool completely on a wire rack.
Filling
- Place gelatin in small bowl; stir in water. Let soften for 1 minute.
- Heat evaporated milk and softened gelatin in small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly with whisk until mixture is dissolved and hot.
- Remove from heat; stir in morsels and peppermint extract until completely melted and smooth. Pour into a medium bowl.
- Refrigerate uncovered for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until cool to touch.
- Gently whisk in 2 cups whipped topping. Sprinkle 1/4 cup candies over bottom of crust. Pour filling over pie crust.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours or until set.
- Spread remaining whipped topping over center of filling. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup candies.
- Serve immediately.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from: VeryBestBaking.com and Nestlé®
By Carnation Milks.