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. Supreme for summer time events, vacation desserts, or any big day, it’s an annual Independence Day dessert at my home. However be aware that this recipe is straightforward sufficient to deal with your self any time of 12 months, particularly for St. Patrick’s Day, while you’re in search of a scrumptious inexperienced dessert!

Why You Should Make

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

My youngsters all adore the mixture of mint and chocolate. Invoice? AKA the choosy husband? Properly, not a lot. He gained’t even style something with mint in it. Apart from toothpaste. That is the form of logic I’ve to take care of 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 (affiliate hyperlink) – Crushed, utilizing a meals processor. Grind them to make crumbs, filling and all. You might also use Nabisco Well-known Wafers plus 2 T sugar.
• Creme de Menthe – A inexperienced liqueur which provides this dessert its minty taste and coloration. Discover the place you buy liquor.
• Marshmallow Creme (affiliate hyperlink) – 7-ounce jar.
• Heavy Cream – 36% Butterfat, whipped.

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 Nineteen Seventies. It comes collectively in a short time and simply. However it does require a while within the freezer, so make certain 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. A bit of persistence is required for the elements to mix right into a easy liquid. Creme de menthe is added for the minty taste and basic inexperienced coloration of a grasshopper cocktail.
3. Gently add the whipped heavy cream into the mint combination.
4. Scrape the filling over the crust, easy the highest with an offset spatula, and freeze.
5. For particular events, not our informal 4th of July celebration, serve slices with a dollop of whipped cream garnished with an Oreo Cookie.

One neighbor, particularly, at all times will get an additional slice to take house. His spouse, Sharon, is “serving to” him weight-reduction plan by limiting her baking, and I received an e mail a couple of 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.

Skilled Ideas

When it’s sizzling and humid, no-bake desserts are a cool, creamy option to finish a meal. Plus, not needing to activate the oven on a sultry day is a large 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 often dulled by the freezing course of. The creme de menthe on this pie gives an intense mint taste that’s mellowed by marshmallow cream, whipped cream, and time within the freezer.
• To make sure excellent textured filling, fastidiously fold within the whipped cream or whipped topping if known as for within the recipe. Folding is while you use a (affiliate hyperlink) Rubber Spatula and elevate a portion of the combination up from the underside of the blending bowl and flip it over to softly mix. Repeat this mild round movement again and again, rotating the bowl, till the combination is homogeneous. This implies no white streaks are seen within the inexperienced filling.

Freezing and Chopping a Frozen Grasshopper Mint Pie

• Make your Grasshopper Pie in a (affiliate hyperlink) 9-inch Springform Pan. Take away the ring after it’s frozen; this makes it very straightforward to slice and serve.
• Freeze the pie for at the least 4 hours or in a single day so it could actually solidify. I wish to make this dessert the day earlier than I’m serving to verify it’s frozen stable.
• 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.
• If in case you have time, you may set the pie/dessert out on the counter for about 10 minutes earlier than slicing. This may soften the filling barely with out melting it (except you’re outdoor on a summer time day!).
• PRO-Tip: If the pie is frozen stable and troublesome to chop into slices, warmth a knife by operating it underneath sizzling water and drying it. The warmth will assist the knife glide by the frozen filling.

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

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