GRASSHOPPER PIE, LIKE WIN SCHULER’S
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… The Original 200 Plus Secret Recipes© Book (Secret RecipesTM, Marysville, MI; June 1997, p. 57).
CRUST INGREDIENTS:
1¼ cups chocolate wafer cookies, crushed into fine crumbs
1/3 cup melted butter
CRUST INSTRUCTIONS:
Combine crumbs with butter and pat into a greased, 9-inch, pie tin. Refrigerate several hours.
FILLING INGREDIENTS:
2/3 cup milk
2-oz green crème de menthe*
½-pint whipping cream, whipped quite stiff
24 large marshmallows OR 100 tiny marshmallows
1-oz white crème de cacao*
OR
*FOR NON-ALCOHOLIC [VERSION]: Instead of crème de menthe and crème de cacao, use…
3-oz apple juice
1 TB rum extract
1 tsp peppermint extract
2 TB Hershey’s chocolate syrup
INSTRUCTIONS:
In top of double boiler, over simmering water, combine milk and crème de menthe (or apple juice). Beat whipping cream and refrigerate, while you melt marshmallows in milk mixture and add crème de cacao (or extracts and syrup). Fold in whipped cream. Pour into cold pie shell. Freeze until firm. Top in more whipped cream and Hershey’s syrup, for 6 to 8 adequate servings.
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