Frozen Grasshopper Pie – Creamy & Scrumptious -That Skinny Chick Can Bake

A dessert twist on the basic mint after-dinner drink, this Frozen Grasshopper Pie with an Oreo Crust is one in every of our conventional 4th of July desserts. My household would revolt if I skipped this winner!

With a chocolate cookie crust and dreamy creme de menthe filling, this luscious pie is one in every of our household’s favourite No-Bake Desserts. Ideally suited for summer season events, vacation desserts or any special day, it’s an annual Independence Day dessert at my home. However observe that this recipe is simple sufficient to deal with your self any time of yr!

Why You Should Make

• This frozen pie is ideal for summer season entertaining, however the mint makes it worthy of vacation gatherings.
• Because it have to be frozen to eat, it’s a simple make-ahead dessert!
• The primary grasshopper pie recipes had fillings with gelatin and egg whites and have been much more sophisticated. This is likely one of the best no-bake desserts that’s at all times successful.

My youngsters all adore the mix of mint and chocolate. Invoice? AKA the choosy husband? Effectively, not a lot. He received’t even style something with mint in it. Aside from toothpaste. That is the form of logic I’ve to cope with on a day-to-day foundation.

Like no cherries apart from Cherry Koolaid. I feel I married a 5-year-old in an grownup’s physique. However I digress. There’s at all times a stash of Skinny Mints in our basement freezer for the children for these mint cravings, however every year, I whip up this frozen mint pie. It doesn’t final lengthy!

Ingredient Notes

• Kitchen Staples – Milk (I used 2%), Butter (I take advantage of salted as salt is a taste enhancer)
• Oreos – crushed utilizing a meals processor. May use Nabisco Well-known Wafers plus 2 T sugar.
• Creme de Menthe – A inexperienced liqueur giving this dessert it’s minty taste and shade.
• Marshmallow Creme – 7 ounce jar.
• Heavy Cream – 36% Butterfat, whipped.

Find out how to Make a Grasshopper Pie 

I began making this no-bake dessert for our Fourth of July gathering about 15 years in the past utilizing my mother’s recipe from the Seventies. It comes collectively in a short time and simply. However it does require a while within the freezer, so be certain that to not make this grasshopper dessert on the final minute.

1. First, make the Oreo crust by making cookie crumbs within the meals processor. Combine the crumbs with melted butter and pressed them onto the underside of the springform pan.
2. Subsequent, with a mixer, mix collectively the milk and marshmallow cream. Somewhat endurance is required for the substances to mix right into a clean liquid. Creme de menthe is added for the minty taste and basic inexperienced shade of a grasshopper cocktail.
3. Gently add the whipped heavy cream into the mint combination.
4. Scrape the filling over the crust, clean the highest with an offset spatula, and freeze.
5. For particular events, not our informal 4th of July occasion, serve slices with a dollop of whipped cream garnished with an Oreo Cookie.

One neighbor, specifically, at all times will get an additional slice to take residence. His spouse, Sharon, is “serving to” him food regimen by limiting her baking, and I bought an e mail a few week earlier than the vacation together with his annual request for this grasshopper pie recipe. And he denies even liking desserts! Anybody who’s that keen on one in every of my desserts will get an enormous slice PLUS a doggy bag for a midnight snack.

Knowledgeable Ideas

When it’s sizzling and humid, no-bake desserts are a cool, creamy method to finish a meal. Plus, not needing to activate the oven on a sultry day is a big bonus! There are a few belongings you’ll need to bear in mind when making sweets like this frozen pie.

Mixing the Mint Filling

• PRO-Tip: With an ice cream pie or a frozen no-bake pie, the flavors are normally dulled by the freezing course of. The creme de menthe on this pie offers an intense mint taste that’s mellowed by marshmallow cream, whipped cream, and time within the freezer.
• To make sure good textured filling, rigorously fold within the whipped cream or whipped topping if known as for within the recipe. Folding is once you use a rubber spatula and raise a portion of the combination up from the underside of the blending bowl and flip it over to softly mix. Repeat this light round movement time and again, rotating the bowl, till the combination is homogeneous. This implies no white streaks are seen within the inexperienced filling.

Freezing and Slicing a Frozen Grasshopper Mint Pie

• Make your Grasshopper Pie in a 9-inch springform pan. Take away the ring after it’s frozen; this makes it very simple to slice and serve.
• Freeze the pie for not less than 4 hours or in a single day so it will possibly solidify. I prefer to make this dessert the day earlier than I’m serving it.
• Cowl the pie with plastic wrap to forestall frost from forming on prime of the pie for storing longer than a day within the freezer.
• When you have time, you may set the pie/dessert out on the counter for about 10 minutes earlier than slicing. This can soften the filling barely with out melting it (until you’re open air on a summer season day!).
• PRO-Tip: If the pie is frozen stable and troublesome to chop into slices, warmth a knife by working it beneath sizzling water and drying it. The warmth will assist the knife glide via the frozen filling.

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This recipe was first shared in July 2011. Photographs and textual content have been up to date in 2019 and 2021.

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