Cork And Cleaver Mud Pie

Ingredients

• 5 c chocolate wafers
• 1 c 8 oz margarine
• 3 lb coffee ice cream
• 12 c hot fudge chocolate topping
• whipped cream
• sliced toasted almonds

Directions

1. Crush wafers into fine crumbs and mix thoroughly with melted margarine
2. Press into a 9-inch pie tin about halfway up the sides
3. Crust should be about 18-inch thick
4. Firm in freezer for 15 minutes
5. Whip softened ice cream until smooth
6. Fill pie shell so that top is mounded to 3-inches in the center and less than 1-inch on the edges
7. Place in freezer to harden
8. When ice cream is firm spread topping to 18-inch thickness all over top and return to freezer to harden
9. Serve on a chilled plate
10. Suggest you also chill server
11. Top each slice with whipped cream and sliced toasted almonds