Grasshopper Pie

For my birthday I really really wanted a grasshopper pie. This because the Robber bought Thin Mints and I started thinking about them in pie form and hence the craving for grasshopper pie was born. I emailed my Mom for a recipe and she sent me this, which she says is of her own design.

1 baked 9 inch graham cracker crust

Ingredients:

I put a few things together from different recipes, but for my crust I used approximately:

1/3 cup crushed chocolate cookie crumbs
1 2/3 cup crushed graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped into fine crumbs
7 Tbsp. melted butter

Directions:

1. Mix the crumbs, sugar, and chocolate together. Melt the butter and pour the hot butter into the crumb mixture. The hot butter will melt the chocolate. Combine and press into a 9 inch pie plate. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes.

Note: You may have some extra crumbs. I just put these on the top of the pie, in between the top chocolate layer and the whipped cream.

Filling

Ingredients:

Green filling Chocolate filling
4 oz. cream cheese 4 oz. cream cheese
1/3 c. sugar 1/3 c. sugar
1/2 c. sour cream 1/2 c. sour cream
1/2 c. whipping cream, whipped 1/2 c. whipping cream, whipped
1 t. mint flavoring 1 t. vanilla flavoring
green food coloring 2 1/2 oz. sweet chocolate, melted

Directions:

1. Mix the ingredients as above. You can mix the cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, and whipping cream for both flavors together and then divide into half and then add the remainder of the ingredients to the two halves separately. Or mix them separately to being with. Whatever is your fancy. Make sure your cream cheese is at room temperature or it will not blend well.

2. Layer the fillings in the crust in three layers--chocolate, green, chocolate.

3. Top and decorate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

4. Store in the refrigerator.