Food Network: Kicked Up Grasshopper Pie

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Kicked Up Grasshopper Pie
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2000

Ingredients
2 1/4 cups chocolate cookies with a creme center, crushed
1/2 cup melted butter
1 3/4 cups heavy cream
2 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
4 egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar
3 ounces Creme de Menthe
1-ounce Creme de Cacao
Chocolate curls, for garnish
Mint Sprigs, for garnish
Whipped cream, for garnish

Directions
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
In a bowl, combine the cookie crumbs and butter and mix well. Pour the crumbs into a 10-inch pie

plate and press into the plate. Place the crust into the oven and bake for 5 to 10 minutes, remove
from the oven and cool completely. Add 1/4 cup of the heavy cream to the top of a double boiler.
Add the gelatin and gently heat and remove from the heat and set aside. In the bowl of an electric
mixer, beat egg yolks and sugar until pale and thick. With the mixer running, drizzle in the gelatin
and cream mixture. Remove the egg yolk mixture from the mixer and fold in the liqueurs. Refrigerate
for 4 hours until thickened. Whip 1 1/2 cups of heavy cream to stiff peaks. Fold the whipped cream
into the thickened egg and gelatin mixture. Pour the mixture into the pie shell and refrigerate
overnight. Remove the pie from the refrigerator and garnish with chocolate curls and mint sprigs
and whipped cream.