Sidewalk Sundae Pie (aka Hershey Sundae Pie): Creamy vanilla & chocolate filling drizzled with fudge ganache & served up in an Oreo cookie crust. It's a "homemade" ice cream pie without using an ice cream maker.
Author: Portlandia Pie Lady
Ingredients
Filling
1cansweetened condensed milk
18-ouncebrick cream cheese - room temp
2teaspoonsvanilla
1/4cupunsweetened cocoa powder
3cupsheavy whipping cream (after being whipped this will be divided 3-ways (filling & piping edge of pie)
1/2cuppowdered sugar
Cookie Crust (Oreo)
25sandwich cookies(pulse in blender to fine crumbs)
4tablespoonsbutter, melted
Fudge topping, chocolate ganache, or chocolate sundae topping of your choice
Instructions
Sandwich (Oreo) Cookie Crust:
Preheat oven to 350.
Using a blender or food processor, pulse the cookies into crumbs (leaving no chunks of cookies).
Stir the melted butter into the cookie crumbs and press into a 9-inch pie plate. Bake for 6 minutes and cool in the fridge.
Filling:
With an electric mixer (I like KitchenAid), beat the heavy whipping cream with the powdered sugar until very stiff peaks form (about 5 to 7 minutes, depending on your mixer). DIVIDE THIS INTO 3 BOWLS (about 2 cups of whipped cream per bowl). Set aside.
Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer about 2 to 3 minutes until creamy and no lumps.
Add the can of sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. Beat with electric mixer another 3 to 4 minutes, it will slightly thicken.
Using half of the cream cheese filling (about 1 cup), fold in 2 cups of the whipped cream (see step #1). Spread this into your prepared, cooled cookie crust. Make peaks and valleys as you so choose for the chocolate to "fill in." Place this in the freezer.
With the remaining cream cheese filling, add in the 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder. Beat with electric mixer about 2 to 3 minutes or longer to ensure there are no lumps.
Fold 2 cups of the reserved whipped cream into the chocolate mixture. Spoon carefully over the vanilla layer.
Drizzle the top of the pie with chocolate sauce or hot fudge topping (not too warm). Pipe on the remaining whipped cream and place in freezer for 3 to 4 hours.
To serve, let pie thaw about 15 to 20 minutes, slice and serve. You can serve it from a frozen state, but it is much better slightly thawed.
Notes
If you want to make a "lighter" version of Sidewalk Sundae (Hershey Pie) you can substitute whipped topping (like Cool Whip). It will take two 8-ounce containers (each has about 3 cups, but you need 6 cups, 4 for filling, 2 for piping on edges).