Country Retreat Peanut Butter Pie

Source: Country Retreat - Hartford, Wisconsin

1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons hot fudge sauce
2 cups crispy rice cereal
1 cup chunky peanut butter
2 to 3 cups vanilla ice cream, softened

To make crust: Melt chocolate chips, butter and fudge sauce in top of double boiler or in microwave. Transfer to mixing bowl and stir in cereal. Transfer to 8-inch pie pan and press onto bottom and up sides of pan to form crust. Freeze 10 minutes.

For filling: Using mixer, combine peanut butter and ice cream and mix well. Pour into frozen crust and return to freezer. Keep frozen until ready to serve.

Makes 6 to 8 servings.