Anyone ever made grasshopper pie?

[john333]

There seems to be two ways of making the filling: the "fussy Gourmet magazine" way where you cook egg yolks in a double boiler etc. and the "quick easy way" where you make the filling with marshmellow creme.

I'm wondering which way produces the more satisfying pie?

Thanks!

[Chemicalkinetics]

For a moment, I thought... grasshopper.

[alkapal]

i recall making it with sweetened condensed milk, like this recipe does: http://davesgarden.com/cookbook/viewe...

grasshoppers *are* sweet, but not cloyingly so.

[bushwickgirl]

The marshmallow version is intolerably sweet, imo. I would use the Gourmet version. Are you looking at this recipe?

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/foo...

[coll]

There was definitely no marshmallow in the one I used to make, I think heavy cream, no gelatin, and then you froze it? I remember the crust the best, crushed chocolate wafer cookies and butter. Wish I could still eat stuff like that and not think about the calories!