Grasshopper Recipes

GRASSHOPPER COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Prepare the cocktail shaker: Fill a cocktail shaker half full with ice.
• Add the liqueurs and heavy cream and shake: Place the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake well for about 10 seconds.
• Strain into a glass: Strain the cocktail into a chilled coupe or martini glass. Serve immediately.

GRASSHOPPER ICE CREAM COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Place creme de menthe, creme de cacao, and ice cream into a blender. Blend until thick and creamy.
• Pour into a 12-ounce glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

GRASSHOPPER

Steps:

• Add the green creme de menthe, white creme de cacao and heavy cream into a shaker with ice and shake vigorously until well-chilled.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
• Grate nutmeg over the top of the drink, if desired.

FLYING GRASSHOPPER

Steps:

• Pour the chocolate liqueur, creme de menthe, vanilla vodka, regular vodka, and half-and-half cream into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into chilled martini glasses rimmed with chocolate syrup to serve.

GRASSHOPPER COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Start by making the garnish. Take a sprig of mint, strip off the leaves at the base and dip the stalk in the melted chocolate, holding the upper leaves gently. Leave to set on a plate or tray.
• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice then pour in the liqueurs and cream. Shake hard until the outside of the cocktail shaker is cold, then strain in to a cocktail glass or small coupe. Garnish with the chocolate-dipped sprig of mint.

GRASSHOPPER

Steps:

• In a cocktail shaker half full of ice cubes, combine cream, creme de menthe, and creme de cacao. Shake well until shaker is frosty. Strain into a martini glass. Grate chocolate over one side of cocktail with a fine grater or microplane. Serve.

GRASSHOPPER PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter a 9-inch pie plate. Whisk together coconut, cookie crumbs, and 1/4 cup sugar in a medium bowl. Add melted butter, and stir until well combined. Press crumb mixture into pie plate. Bake until just set, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, bring 1 1/2 cups cream and the mint just to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat; cover. Let steep 15 minutes. Pour the mixture through a fine sieve into a glass measuring cup. Discard the mint, and set cream aside. Beat the remaining cup cream in a medium bowl until stiff peaks form; cover, and refrigerate.
• Prepare an ice-water bath; set aside. Put creme de menthe in a medium heatproof bowl, and sprinkle with gelatin. Let stand 5 minutes to soften. Whisk together egg yolks and remaining 1/4 cup sugar in another medium bowl; set aside. Add steeped cream to gelatin mixture, whisking until well combined.
• Set bowl with cream mixture over a pan of simmering water. Cook, whisking constantly, until the gelatin is dissolved and mixture is hot to the touch, about 1 minute. Whisking constantly, pour hot cream mixture in a slow, steady stream into egg-yolk mixture. Return mixture to heatproof bowl; set over pan of simmering water. Cook, whisking constantly, until mixture is slightly thickened and registers 150 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, about 10 minutes.
• Transfer bowl to ice-water bath; whisk until mixture thickens to the consistency of pudding, about 2 minutes. Remove bowl from bath. Add one-third of reserved whipped cream; whisk until combined. Gently fold in remaining whipped cream with a rubber spatula.
• Spoon mixture into pie crust; refrigerate until set, 45 minutes to 1 hour (or up to 1 day). Just before serving, scrape a chef's knife along surface of chocolate bar to make shavings. Spoon dollops of whipped cream onto pie, if desired, and top with chocolate shavings.

GRASSHOPPER COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• If you'd like to rim the glass , wet it with a quick dip in a shallow dish filled with either liqueur from the recipe. While still holding the glass upside down, roll the rim in a dish of grated chocolate, cocoa powder, or finely crushed graham crackers.
• In a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes, pour the cream, white crème de cacao, and green crème de menthe.
• Shake well .
• Strain into the prepared cocktail glass . Serve and enjoy.

GRASSHOPPER COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Combine creme de menthe, creme de cacao, cream, and ice in a cocktail shaker. Cover and shake until chilled. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

GRASSHOPPER

Steps:

• Pour all ingredients into a shaker over ice, shake, and strain. Serve.;

GRASSHOPPER PIE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in milk until smooth. Beat in the food coloring. Coarsely crush 16 cookies; stir into the cream cheese mixture. Fold in whipped topping. Spoon into the crust. Cover and freeze overnight. Remove from the freezer 15 minutes before serving. Garnish with remaining cookies.

GRASSHOPPER

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients, except the chocolate, in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice. Shake until chilled, about 10 seconds, and strain into a chilled coupe.
• Grate a light dusting of the chocolate over the surface of the drink.