Chocolate Mascarpone Pie

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 15 mins

Ingredients

• 24 chocolate wafer cookies
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/3 cup orange marmalade
• 10 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken into pieces or 10 ounces chocolate chips
• 3 (8 ounce) containers mascarpone cheese or 3 (8 ounce) containers cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons orange liqueur or 3 tablespoons orange juice or 3 tablespoons triple sec
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 for the crust, heat oven to 350 degrees f. you’ll need a 9 inch pie plate.
• 2 pulse cookies in food processor until fine crumbs; add butter and process until blended. press mixture evenly into bottom and sides of pie plate. bake 12 minutes; cool on wire rack. spread marmalade over the cooled cookie crust.
• 3 for the filling, microwave chocolate in glass bowl in short bursts, 15 seconds at a time, stirring until melted.
• 4 gently mix mascarpone, sugar, liqueur and salt in large bowl just until blended (do not stir too much or mixture will curdle). fold in melted chocolate until no streaks remain.
• 5 if desired, put ½ cup chocolate mixture in a small zip top freezer bag and snip off a tiny corner; reserve for garnish. spread remaining chocolate mixture in cookie crust. chill at least 2 hours until firm. to garnish, squeeze zip top bag (like a pastry bag) to produce small chocolate peaks around perimeter.