Grasshopper Pie

Name: Grasshopper Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 150 ml/¼ pint whipping cream or double cream; 55 g/2 oz caster sugar; 3 tbsp fresh mint leaves, finely chopped; 55 g/2 oz cocoa powder; 2 egg whites; 225 ml/7½ fl oz sour cream; 225 g/8 oz Duchy biscuits or similar, crushed; 2 leaves gelatine, soaked in cold water and squeezed dry; 115 g/4 oz unsalted butter; 85 g/3 oz dark chocolate, broken into pieces; 115 g/4 oz dark chocolate; 6 tbsp water

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

So called because, apparently, the name implies lightness of a grasshopper while the mint adds coolness. Believe that if you like but I have no other explanation - except that it is a fabulous classic American pie.

Ingredients

The Base

225 g/8 oz Duchy biscuits or similar, crushed
115 g/4</

Americas
United States
Pie
Summer
Winter

Method

Melt together the butter and chocolate and thoroughly mix with the biscuits. (You can do all this in a food processor) Spoon into a 25 cm (10 in) loose bottomed flan tin and press along the bottom and up t