Preparation time: 20 mins. + Refrigeration time | Serves 6-8 persons
This Grasshopper Pie Recipe is an easy dessert recipe that requires almost no cooking. You just need to make a filling with hot milk, cream, marshmallows, and peppermint essence and then set it onto the chocolate cookie crust. It is the simplest way to prepare it while to make it versatile you can make an additional layer of ice cream and garnish it with crushed chocolate and nuts.
Ingredients:
For Crust:
2 large packs of dark chocolate cookies
2 oz butter
For Filling:
1/4 cup white marshmallow
1 ltr milk
1 tbsp unflavored gelatin (soak in 2 tbsp water)
1 cup whipped cream
½ tsp peppermint essence
Few drops of green food color (optional)
Procedure:
1. Process cookies to make crumbs in your food processor. Add butter and give a few pulses to mix.
2. Take a 9-inch deep pie dish and spread a layer of this crumb at the base and sides of the dish. Then keep it in the fridge for 10-15mins. to set.
3. Heat milk in a pan over low heat, just before boiling add marshmallows and peppermint essence to the milk and stir well to mix. Then remove the pan from heat.
4. Melt soaked gelatin over boiling water and add it to the milk mixture and stir well.
5. When the mixture gets cool to room temperature, add whipped cream and fold it nicely with the mixture.
6. Pour this filling over the cookie crust and keep it in the fridge for 3-4 hours or until gets firm.
7. Serve the delicious Grasshopper Pie with a topping of whipped cream and some grated chocolate.
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