From Denny: This retro recipe is a blast from the past - with updates! The decade of the 1950's sported the food trend of frozen desserts, especially for entertaining and the holidays.
Historically, it was in the 1950's when freezers were first mass manufactured as separate from refrigerators. This new appliance trend created some serious creativity in the cooking arena with frozen desserts offered.
This Christmas holiday favorite has survived the test of time, in this decade with a couple of tweaks as options for ingredient substitutions - like frozen yogurt or reduced-fat ice cream for the original full fat ice cream in the filling. Using canola oil reduces the saturated fat in the original crust that used butter - later in the 1960's and 1970's it was worse, using solid shortening like Crisco for the crust.
Basically, this is a type of frozen mint ice cream pie with a delicious chocolate cookie wafer or chocolate graham cracker crust. It's a very easy recipe to make which also makes it a big hit. This recipe is an easy one for beginners.
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Frozen Grasshopper Pie
Yield: 8 servings
Serving size: 1 slice
From: CanolaInfo
Ingredients:
- canola oil cooking spray
- 1¼ cup finely crushed chocolate wafer cookies or chocolate graham cracker crumbs (310 mL)
- 3 Tbsp canola oil (45 mL)
- 4 cups mint chip reduced-fat ice cream or frozen yogurt, softened* (1 L)
- 1/3 cup chocolate shavings (1 oz (30 g) chocolate)* (60 mL)
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Spray 9-inch (22-cm) pie dish with canola oil cooking spray.
- In medium bowl, combine cookie crumbs and canola oil and mix until combined, then press mixture into prepared pie dish. Bake until fragrant, 6 to 8 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
- In large bowl, place softened ice cream and mix well until uniform texture forms, similar to soft-serve ice cream. Fill cooled pie crust with ice cream, smoothing out top. Garnish with chocolate shavings, cover with plastic wrap and put back in freezer until solidly frozen, at least 4 hours.
- When ready to serve, heat knife under hot water and use it to cut pie into slices.
* Notes: An ice cream or frozen yogurt without green food coloring is recommended. To make chocolate shavings, use a vegetable peeler to peel strips from a thick block of chocolate. If the chocolate crumbles as you make the shavings, put it in the microwave at 10-second intervals to soften it slightly.
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