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Chocolate Cherry Cream Pie www.orsoshesays.com

The Ultimate Chocolate Cherry Cream Pie

Ingredients

  • Crust:
  • 25 Oreos
  • 4 TBS butter melted
  • Filling:
  • 16 oz. cream cheese 2 bars
  • 2 3/4 cup heavy cream divided
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 10 oz. jar maraschino cherries drained (save the juice)
  • 3 T. maraschino cherry juice
  • One 4.4 oz. chocolate bar
  • One 4.4 oz. white chocolate bar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp. almond extract
  • 1 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In food processor, pulse Oreos until fine crumbs.
  3. Add melted butter to Oreo crumbs and mix well.
  4. Press crumbs into bottom of pie dish and up the sides.
  5. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes, until set. Set aside to cool.
  6. Dump the cherries in food processor, and pulse until well chopped.
  7. Break up the chocolate bars, add to the food processor and pulse just until the chocolate is chopped to small chunks. Don't over-pulse the chocolate, you want small chunks.
  8. Set the chocolate/cherry mixture aside and pull out another bowl.
  9. In that bowl, combine your sugar, cream cheese, and ¾ cup heavy whipping cream. Mix well.
  10. Add 1 tsp. of the vanilla, almond extract, cherry/chocolate mixture, and finally the cherry juice. Mix well.
  11. Whip remaining 2 cups of heavy whipping cream with 1 cup powdered sugar and remaining 1 tsp. vanilla to make whipped cream.
  12. Remove 1 cup of the whipped cream and fold into the chocolate cherry mixture.
  13. Pour mixture into Oreo pie crust and chill pie.
  14. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream on top.