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Grasshopper ice cream pie
Grasshopper pie is a tasty refreshing dessert that has no grasshoppers in it! It gets its name from the grasshopper cocktail which is a chocolate mint concoction that dates back all the way to 1918. This variation has a chocolate cookie crumb crust - you simply mix together cookie crumbs, melted butter, and sugar, and press that into a pie pan.
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- Pinch of fine sea salt
- Green gel food colouring
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips or chunks
- 3 cups whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon icing sugar
- Chocolate savings or crumbled Oreo cookies, for garnish
Directions
- Mix chocolate cookie crumbs, butter, and sugar in a bowl until well combined. Using your hands, press the mixture into a nine-inch freezer-friendly pie plate. Make sure to press the crumbs up the side of the plate. Refrigerate the chocolate cookie crust while you work on your ice cream.
- Stir together sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, peppermint extract, a couple of drops of green food colouring (it’s ok if this mixture is slightly darker than mint green because it will lighten once you add the whipped cream), and salt in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Whip two cups of whipping cream with an electric mixer on high until stiff peaks form. Fold about one cup of the whipped cream into the condensed milk mixture with a rubber spatula until totally combined.
- Fold the lightened condensed milk mixture into the remaining whipping cream until fully combined and no green streaks appear.
- Pour the mixture into the pie plate with the chilled cookie crust, cover tightly with plastic wrap, and freeze for two hours.
- Remove the pie from the freezer and add chocolate chips to the ice cream and gently swirl with a spoon, being careful not to dig up the cookie crust. Re-cover the pan and freeze again until solid, at least three hours.
- Whip the remaining whipping cream with a tablespoon of icing sugar until stiff peaks form. Remove the pie from the freezer and top with a generous amount of whipped cream and chocolate shavings or crumbled Oreo cookies and fresh mint leaves for garnish. Serve immediately or freeze again until you are ready to enjoy!
