Chocolate Lime Swirl

Ingredients

• 1 box of chocolate wafers (18 crushed, 12-14 whole)
• 3 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 3oz package of lime gelatin (Jello)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup of boiling water
• 10 drops of green food colouring; omit if jelly powder will yeild its own green colour. .
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1 cup undiluted Carnation evaporated milk

Instructions

1. Crush 18 wafers, set aside 12-14 wafers.
2. Mix crumbs with melted butter and spread on the bottom of a glass pie dish, retaining some for garnish on top.
3. Line sides with whole wafers.
4. Dissolve jelly powder and sugar in boiling water.
5. Add food colouring, lemon rind and 2 tablespoons of the lemon juice, reserve the rest.
6. Chill until slightly thickened.
7. Chill evaporated milk in the freezer for 15–20m, until ice crystals are just forming at the edges.
8. Whip evaporated milk until stiff, about 1m.
9. Add lemon juice and whip 2 more minutes.
10. Fold in jelly mixture and spoon over crust.
11. Sprinkle remaining crumbs over top in a swirl pattern or your design of choice.
12. Chill at least 1-2hrs before serving.

Comments

It was always a great day when this showed up in the fridge, usually in advance of Sunday dinner. Robin never knew the proper name of the recipe and thought it was called Green Grasshopper Pie, but that dessert, while also using chocolate wafers is a chocolate mint dessert.

Currently available chocolate wafers may require adjustments to the quantities in the recipe. The original product was quite thin, about 2in in diameter and had a nice chocolate taste—a wafer, not a cookie.

Historical Record

Nabisco chocolate wafers were introduced in 1924 and were responsible for popularizing icebox cakes. Nabisco’s parent company, Mondelez International discontinued the wafers in February of 2023, much to the dismay of the Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers Fan Club, and likely many other other more casual icebox and cheesecake makers.

In July of 2023, Mondelez relaunched the iconic Mr. Christie collection of cookies in Canada. As part of the relaunch, Mondelez invites “Canadians to celebrate with fan-favourites like Peek Freans, Fudgee-O and Dads and get to know Mr. Christie again.”

Mr. Christie was licensed by Mondelez to make Mr. Christies Chocolate Wafers, but it is unclear whether the product is actually or easily available in Canada.