Chocolate Lime Pie

This recipe comes from an old yellowed newspaper clipping. There’s just nothing quite like a chocolate pie unless, of course, you mix it with a little bit of lime. Yum!
This is a different version of a recipe I published earlier. Sometimes the best recipes are combinations of two favorites. I think I'll give it a try. Nothing like a taste test, don't you agree?

Chocolate Lime Pie

One 12-oz. can evaporated milk
One 3-oz. box lime gelatin
1 cup hot water
One 8-oz. package cream cheese
¾ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Chocolate wafer crust

Chill evaporated milk thoroughly (it must be VERY cold).

Mix the gelatin and hot water. Chill until it is slightly thickened, or about the consistency of unbeaten egg whites.

Cream together the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until well blended. Fold in thickened gelatin.

Whip the evaporated milk until stiff peaks form. Fold milk into the gelatin and cream cheese mixture.

Pour into chocolate cookie crust and chill thoroughly before serving.

Variation:

Substitute lemon gelatin and use a graham cracker crust.

Chocolate Wafer Crust

1 ½ cups chocolate wafer crumbs

1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted

Combine crumbs and butter until well mixed. Firmly press crumb mixture evenly over bottom and sides of a 9-inch pie plate.

Makes 1 pie crust.