Grasshopper pie facts for kids
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Grasshopper pie is a no-bake mousse pie with a chocolate crumb crust. The pastel-colored pie is associated with springtime, and especially with Easter celebrations in the United States. The pie gets its name from the Grasshopper cocktail.
Preparation
Grasshopper pie filling is made by folding whipped cream into marshmallow or cream cheese. The cream cheese version is made by adding green food coloring to a mixture of condensed milk with cream cheese, then gently folding in chocolate covered mint cookie crumbs and whipped topping. Alternately, melted marshmallows can be gently folded into fresh whipped cream. The filling is infused with creme de menthe and creme de cacao which give the mousse its characteristic green coloring. The crust is a chocolate cookie crumb crust, variations of which can be made with crumbled sandwich cookies, or by melting chocolate in a double boiler and stirring in crisped rice cereal, then pressing the mixture into a pie dish and allowing it to set in the refrigerator.
Variations
Grasshopper pie can also be made as an ice cream pie.
Blonde grasshopper pie is made with crushed pineapple and white creme de menthe and creme de cacao, and so is called "blonde" because it lacks the green coloring of the original version.
