Ingredients
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1 cup Oreo cookie crumbs
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3 tablespoons granulated sugar
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1/3 cup butter, melted
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1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
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1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
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1/4 cup packed brown sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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12 ounces Cool Whip, thawed in refrigerator (very important)
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1 quart fresh strawberries
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1/2 inch paraffin wax (I skip this also)
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1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- To make crust: combine cookie crumbs, 3 T sugar and melted butter.
- Press onto bottom and sides of a lightly greased 9 inch deep dish pie pan.
- Bake in oven for 10 minutes, cool.
- To make filling: Melt chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler, cool slightly.
- Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy with electric mixer.
- Add brown sugar and vanilla, mixing well.
- Add chocolate to cream cheese mixture, mixing well.
- Fold in the cool whip and mix again.
- Spoon filling into cooled crust (or ready made chocolate crust) and smooth out top.
- Cover tightly and chill at least 8 hours.
- To finish the pie, wash strawberries, pat dry, and cut lenghtwise into 1/8 inch slices.
- Arrange around the outside edge of pie, make a second row, overlapping.
- Continue in this fashion until the entire pie has been covered.
- Heat the 1/4 cup chocolate chips with the paraffin (or without paraffin).
- Drizzle over the strawberries.
- Chill and serve the same day.