White Chocolate Mousse Pie‏

Ingredients

• Crust:
  13 chocolate cream-filled sandwich cookies, ground (such as Oreo)
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 17 oval vanilla-and-chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Pepperidge Farm Milano)
• Filling:
  1 1/4 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
• 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 12 ounces white chocolate, chopped
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Garnish:
  1 pint strawberries, hulled and halved
• 2 cups frozen whipped topping (such as Cool Whip), thawed

  Directions

  Crust:
  1. Set aside 1 tablespoon of ground chocolate cookies for garnish. Stir together remaining ground cookies and butter in a bowl until combined. Press the mixture evenly over the bottom of a 9-inch pie plate. Arrange oval cookies around the edge of pie plate, alternating with vanilla and chocolate facing out.
  Filling:
  2. In a small glass measuring cup, sprinkle gelatin over 1/4 cup of the cream and let stand 5 minutes to soften.
  3. Combine cream cheese, white chocolate and gelatin mixture in small saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat for 6 minutes, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour into large bowl; place over ice bath. Stir until thickened and cooled.
  4. Whip remaining 1 cup heavy cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Fold a third of the whipped cream into the white chocolate mixture until well-combined. Gently fold in the remaining whipped cream until just blended.
  5. Spoon mixture into prepared crust and refrigerate at least 3 hours or overnight.
  Garnish:
  6. Before serving mound whipped topping in center of pie. Sprinkle with berries and reserved cookie crumbs.

This is a recipe I ran across one day  while browsing the Internet...I was on my FB page and Family Circle Magazine posted it to their wall.  They posted it as a Mothers Day Dessert and I can't help think about my own mom when I look at this recipe.  It reminds me of when I was a child.  My mom use to get all these magazines (including Family Circle) in the mail and she would carefully read them in her spare time cover to cover paying close attention to the recipes and a lot of times clipping them and then trying them on us kids.