Whether it is served in a cone or a bowl if possible a big one, with toppings or without, or right out of the carton, I just cannot pass it up. I have been an ice cream-lover as long as I can remember.

It has to be in my genes, My grandma loved the frozen creamy stuff, and though she died when I was quite young, I still remember making trips to her much loved ice cream shop in Chicago. We had each have a cone piled high with our preferred flavors. When she would come to our house for a visit, we had sit beside each other as we ate our bedtime treat of a single scoop of plain old vanilla ice cream. She said it would help me fall right to sleep and I had had sweet dreams. I still like to eat ice cream before bedtime.

July is National Ice Cream Month I determined to celebrate by creating my own ice cream dessert using some of my favorite flavors. Mocha Fudge Sweet Dreams Pie is fashioned after Mississippi Mud, a fudge-topped coffee ice cream pie I keep in mind having years ago at a restaurant we used to frequent. This one, though, is a little like eating an Almond Joy while sip a cup of coffee.