Bunn

Something Sweet!

Make Mother’s Day extra sweet this year with a delicious Chocolate Coffee Pie.   This delicious easy to make is perfect to share, and will put a smile on mom’s face!

Chocolate Coffee Pie

Recipe taken from Adventures in Coffee cookbook.

Ingredients

Crust:

• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup finely chopped walnuts

Filling:

• 1- 8ounce package cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup confectioner’ sugar , sifted
• 14 ounces frozen whipped dessert topping, thawed
• 2 (3 ½-4 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding
• 2 ¾ cups milk
• ¼ cup coffee concentrate
• Grated chocolate for garnish

1.  In a mixing bowl, cut butter into flour until crumbly.  Stir in ¾ cup of walnuts, Press mixture evenly over bottom of a 13x9x2 inch baking dish. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Cool.  Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese on low speed until fluffy; beat in confectioners’ sugar and half od the thawed whipped topping.  Spread over crust. Chill.
2. In a large bowl, combine pudding mix, milk and coffee concentrate, then beat with rotary beater for 2 minutes.  Spoon over the chilled cream cheese layer.  Chill until firm, several hours or overnight.  Top with remaining thawed whipped topping.  Sprinkle with remained chopped nuts and grated chocolate.

Yield: 8 servings.