Nigella’s Grasshopper Pie

My eldest daughter has been asking me to make this for ages so we have just made Grasshopper Pie for New Years Day lunch tomorrow.  I couldn’t get any white Creme de Cacao (everywhere sold out!) so we just added the  4 tbsp of creme de menthe.

Serves 8-10

For the Base

• 300g Bourbon Biscuits
• 50g good quality dark chocolate, chopped
• 50g soft unsalted butter

Take out and set aside 1 biscuit. Process the rest of the biscuits and chocolate in a food processor until they form a crumb mixture, then add the butter and carry on processing until it all starts to clump together.

Press into a high sided 25cm fluted tart tin with loose base. Put in the fridge to harden.

For the filling:

• 150g mini marshmallows
• 125ml full fat milk
• 4 x 15ml tbsp of creme de menthe
• 4 x 15ml tbsp of creme de cacao blanc
• 375ml double cream
• few spots of green food colouring (optional)

Melt the marshmallows in a saucepan with the milk over a gentle heat and once the milk starts to foam (not boil), take off the heat and keep stirring until the marshmallows blend into the milk to make a smooth mixture.

Pour the mixture out of the saucepan into a heatproof bowl then whisk in the creme de menthe and creme de cacao.  Leave to cool.

Whisk the cream until it starts to hold soft peaks

then, still whisking, add the cooled marshmallow mix.  This filling should be thick but still soft, not stiff or dry, so that it will eventually drop easily out of the bowl into the chilled pie crust.

When the marshmallow mixture and the cream are combined, add a few drops of food colouring and whisk it in.

Spread the filling evenly into the chilled base, then put it in the fridge, covered, to chill overnight or for a minimum of 4 hours until firm.

Crush the remaining biscuit and sprinkle over the top of the pie just before serving. The photo is without the decoration as we are not eating it until tomorrow. Might sprinkle some mini marshmallows on top too.

I think the mixture was a little too stiff as I didn’t have any of the Creme de Cacao. It still tastes good though!!