Chocolate Orange Mascarpone Pie

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 24 chocolate wafers
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/3 cup orange marmalade
• 10 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken up
• 3 (8 ounce) containers mascarpone, at room temperature
• 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons orange liqueur or 3 tablespoons orange juice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 large seedless orange (optional)

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350ºf.
• 2 pulse cookies in processor until fine crumbs; add butter and process until blended.
• 3 press mixture evenly into bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate.
• 4 bake 12 minutes; cool on wire rack.
• 5 spread marmalade over cooled crust.
• 6 microwave chocolate in glass bowl, 15 seconds at a time, stirring, until melted.
• 7 gently mix mascarpone, sugar, liqueur and salt in large bowl just until blended (do not stir too much or mixture will curdle).
• 8 fold in melted chocolate until no streaks remain.
• 9 if desired, put ½ cup chocolate mixture in small ziptop freezer bag and snip off a tiny corner; reserve for garnish.
• 10 spread remaining chocolate mixture in cookie crust.
• 11 chill at least 2 hours until firm.
• 12 garnish: cut orange into 1/4-in.-thick slices.
• 13 drain slices on paper towel, cut each slice in half, twist ends and arrange on pie.
• 14 pipe little dollops of reserved filling on orange twists to help secure.
• 15 serve at room temperature.