Grasshopper Pie

Grasshopper Pie is a mint chocolate chip ice cream pie with a chocolate fudge brownie-like crust. You can use different flavors of ice cream.

Ever since I can remember, my Aunt Suey has made Grasshopper Pie for St. Patrick’s Day. This is one of my all-time favorite desserts. Not only do I love mint chocolate-chip ice cream, but the crust on this ‘pie’ is out of this world! It’s seriously soooooooo good. You’d think it was an ohh-so chocolaty compressed brownie, but even that doesn’t describe it. There are no words 🙂 If you have been looking for a dessert to make to celebrate St. P’s Day – look no further!  

This recipe is not limited to St. Patrick’s Day – you could use any flavor/color combo – like strawberry for Valentine’s Day, vanilla/chocolate-chip for any day!  Peppermint would be delicious, like in my Brownie Peppermint Ice Cream Cake. Edy’s French Silk ice cream (one of my fav’s) would be AMAZING!

Recipe Details

The crust for this recipe starts with a cake mix. My aunt recommends Pillsbury Plus dark chocolate cake mix. I do not know if this is sold anymore, but I was able to find Pillsbury Moist Supreme dark chocolate cake mix. I think any quality boxed cake mix would work.

First, the mix is combined with water, oil, and canned frosting, then baked.

After the crusts come out of the oven, you use the back of spoon to press down the crust. You can see my aunt doing that in this photo.

After the crust has been flattened and cooled completely, the ice cream and topping are added. The pies can be frozen until serving.

Gluten Free Grasshopper Pie

I haven’t tried this myself, but a Gluten Free Chocolate Cake mix could be used in place of the Pillsbury mix. The other components of this recipe are gluten free.

LOOKING FOR MORE ST. PATRICK’S DAY RECIPES?

Check out these recipes perfect for St. Patrick’s Day:
Oreo Shamrock Shakes
Painted Rainbow Cookies
Rainbow Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Bailey’s Irish Cream Mini Cheesecakes
Bailey’s Irish Cream Cheesecake
St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing
Easy Homemade Cream Puffs with tinted green filling or choux pastry
Turkey Pastrami Reuben Sandwiches

LOOKING FOR MORE ICE CREAM DESSERTS?

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Homemade Ice Cream Cake {Dairy Queen Copycat}
Brownie Peppermint Ice Cream Cake
Rainbow Unicorn Ice Cream Cake {My Little Pony}
Homemade Ben & Jerry’s Hot Fudge Sauce
Roasted Cherry Brownie Sundaes with Cherry Port Sauce
Homemade Mint Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
Homemade French Vanilla Ice Cream
Raspberry Sorbet
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Grasshopper Pie

Meghan

Grasshopper Pie is a mint chocolate chip ice cream pie with a chocolate fudge brownie-like crust. You can use different flavors of ice cream. This recipe makes two pies.

5 from 4 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Cool Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 16

Ingredients

  

For the Crust:

• 1 package Pillsbury Plus dark chocolate cake mix (see note)
• 3/4 cup water
• 3/4 cup Pillsbury Supreme chocolate fudge frosting (see note)
• 1/4 cup oil

For the Filling:

• 2 containers mint chocolate chip ice cream, softened (48 ounces each, total of 12 cups)

For the Drizzle:

• remainder of the can of chocolate frosting

Instructions

 

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 2 9-inch pie or metal cake pans.

Make the Crust:

• In a large bowl, beat all crust ingredients for 2 minutes on high. The batter will be kind of fluffy. Pour 1/2 of the batter into each pan.  DO NOT SPREAD OUT.
• Bake 25-30 minutes. It will be very puffy and soft. The cake will fall when taken out of the oven. Use a spoon to flatten it down as much as possible while it's still warm. When flattening, the cake will be up the sides a little – this is ok because it's the "crust."  Let cool completely.

Assemble the Pie:

• Fill cooled shell with softened ice cream.
• Melt remaining frosting from the can in the microwave and drizzle on top.
• Cover pans with press-and-seal or foil and freeze for at least 2 hours.

Notes

I’m not sure if they still make Pillsbury Plus, but she recommends using a dark chocolate cake mix (like Pillsbury Moist Supreme dark chocolate cake mix); using dark chocolate/fudge for the mix and frosting will make the crust fudgy and chewy.

This is best baked in a metal pan that you don’t mind being scratched with a knife when you cut the slices.  This pie is a bit of a pain to get out of the pan, and I wouldn’t be comfortable making it in my coated non-stick pans. Another option is to make it in a springform pan. Alternatively, use disposable aluminum foil pie pans which can be thrown away after removing.

If you prefer, you can use light or even reduced sugar/sugar free mint chocolate chip ice cream to lighten it up.  Any flavor of ice cream will work. 

Source: my Aunt

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