White Chocolate Mousse Pie by LuaGirl

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

This recipe TOPS all other recipes!!! It is to die for! The first time I made it, was about October 2007, and ever since then I still get requests from family members to make THIS dessert.

Makes: 12 servings
Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 5 minutes
Refrigerate: 3 hours or overnight.

Crust Ingredients:
1 chocolate already made pie crust
10 Oval vanilla-and-chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies), cut in half

Filling Ingredients:
1 1/4 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
1 1/4 cups heavy cream
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
12 ounces white chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Garnish:
1 pint strawberries, hulled and halved (OR your favorite berries)
2 cups Cool Whip, thawed
1 or 2 leftover Milano cookies, crumbled

Filling: In small glass measuring cup, sprinkle gelatin over 1/4 cup of heavy cream and let stand 5 minutes to soften.
Combine cream cheese, white chocolate chips and gelatin mixture in small saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Pour into large bowl; place over ice bath. Stir until thickened and cooled.
Whip remaining 1 cup heavy cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Fold a third of the whipped cream into the white chocolate mixture until well-combined. Gently fold in the remaining whipped cream until just blended.
Spoon mixture into crust and refrigerate at least 3 hours or overnight (for best results.)
Before serving, take Milano cookies cut in half, and place them all around the edge of the pie into the filling, then mound whipped topping in center of pie. Sprinkle with berries and cookie crumbs.

YUMMY!!!!
Blessed Be friends!

PS: The cream cheese, white chocolate filling is the perfect base for a fruit dip. You could always skip the pie. Follow pie filling instructions, but instead of spooning into pie crust, spoon into pretty bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, then serve with fresh fruits and sweet crackers or cookies.
I actually made this recipe for a pot luck at work, But to make it easy to eat it at their desks, I made small individual little "pies" by spooning mixture into cup-cake paper cups. I made an Oreo cookie crust and sprinkled some in the bottom of each cup-cake paper cup, then spooned in filling, and so on. It was more time consuming, but I didn't mind it! :)