Warp Drive Chocolate Pie

The filling sounds gorgeous, but I need a translation about the pie crust.

At first I thought it was a pastry shell, but on re-reading think it must be one of thos wizzed up biscuits and butter ones.

I know Oreos are chocolate flavoured biscuits, but have never met Grahams Crackers. Here cream crackers are a very dry biscuit for cheese - ooops, have just realised that your biscuits are called crackers, and your biscuits are a sort of scone, so now I'm even more confused! It can't be a 'for cheese' variety.....

Or am I completely confused and its some ready made shell you buy?

We get Rich Tea and Marie Biscuits but not Graham Crackers

Dee in Oz

Sally, you can use Digestive Biscuits in place of graham crackers. Not quite the same thing, but they work just fine. And you're correct, it's a crumbs-and-butter crust. Americans distinguish between crackers (usually not sweet) and cookies (sweet), which you call biscuits. Graham "crackers" are one of those things that started off relatively healthy with little or no sugar and then morphed into something else without a name change. (Muffins are another such.) But probably lots of people would buy a ready-made shell. Not sure how to treat the oreos myself -do they get used filling and all in a pie shell? With extra butter? Roberta in D

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Not sure I'd use cooking chocolate. Seems it would make a better texture to use properly conched eating chocolate! Roberta in D

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Here in Minnesota (U.S.A.) I buy Oreo cookie crumbs in a box. (Graham cracker crumbs are also available.) Then I don't have to mess around with making crumbs. My mom had a recipe that called for crushing whole oreo cookies, frosting and all. It was a messy job.

I figured out a cost comparison on the graham cracker crumbs once; they were no more expensive per ounce than the whole crackers. I suspect that they are using broken pieces that they would otherwise have to throw away.

Julia in snowy MN

oh man, the closest to graham crackers back home are 'galletitas maria'

- maybe a transatlantic co> What about Rich Tea biscuits ... here we use something called Marie biscuits

Most oreo cookie pie custs I have seen use just the biscuit part. Dunno if that is how it started out or if that is how most people do it. I make my own chocolate wafer cookies when I need a chocolate cookie crumb pie crust, which is very seldom. Just treat them like any other crumb for a crumb crust. Then again, I adjust for sweetness and oil content myself and to heck with the recipe when I am making a such a thing.

IMHO it is much easier to just roll out some cookie dough and bake it in the pie pan, to heck with the crumbs. But sometimes you want that texture and the extra bit of butter.

NightMist

Maries are THE standard for crumb bases in Australia!!

Okay, I just made this and put it in the refrigerator. I need to keep my strength up for my exams!

-- Jo in Scotland

I'm glad I read through the posts before posting my own message. I was just about to ask if, after all this discussion, whether anyone has made the recipe yet!! I'll be anxious to hear how it is. Though with those ingredients, how could it be anything but fabulous?? KJ

I didn't have any brandy, and anyway I need to concentrate. It was fabulous, the few little slicelets I have had so far. Yes, I could cut into it after 3 hours of impatience.... but it was much firmer after 5 hours of anticipation....

-- Jo in Scotland

"I didn't have any brandy, and anyway I need to concentrate."

Try Kalua. That gives it a coffee kick that is wonderful.

Frank Reid (whose wondering what would happen if he posted some of his other chocolate recipes)

Try it and see.....I dare you! KJ

Done done it. Thats what the original recipe called for. Frank

Done done it. Thats what the original recipe called for. Frank