From Denny: This retro recipe is a blast from the past - with updates! The decade of the 1950's sported the food trend of frozen desserts, especially for entertaining and the holidays.
Historically, it was in the 1950's when freezers were first mass manufactured as separate from refrigerators. This new appliance trend created some serious creativity in the cooking arena with frozen desserts offered.
This Christmas holiday favorite has survived the test of time, in this decade with a couple of tweaks as options for ingredient substitutions - like frozen yogurt or reduced-fat ice cream for the original full fat ice cream in the filling. Using canola oil reduces the saturated fat in the original crust that used butter - later in the 1960's and 1970's it was worse, using solid shortening like Crisco for the crust.
Basically, this is a type of frozen mint ice cream pie with a delicious chocolate cookie wafer or chocolate graham cracker crust. It's a very easy recipe to make which also makes it a big hit. This recipe is an easy one for beginners.
Celebrate Chocolate every day as a holiday!
