Ice cream!!!  We celebrated my mom’s and my birthday and I decided to try this Grasshopper Pie because the main ingredient is mint chocolate chip ice cream, my mom’s favorite.  It’s quite simple to make, it’s mostly just assembling things, obviously no ‘cooking’ or ‘baking’ involved in this one.  Perfect for the summer.  Certainly this can be substituted with just about any flavored ice cream, but then of course you won’t have the lovely green color (hence grasshopper!).  I will be making this again for my brother’s birthday next week, swapping out the mint chocolate chip ice cream for cookies & cream ice cream - it’s gonna be soooo good! 

Here’s what you do…

1 oreo cookie pie shell

1/2 gallon mint chocolate chip ice cream (softened)

1 container Cool Whip

Hot fudge sauce (slightly warmed in microwave so you can pour it)

Caramel Sauce (slightly warmed as above)

Oreo cookies (about 15) crushed

On the bottom of the pie shell, drizzle a thin layer of hot fudge sauce then put the pie shell in the freezer for about 10 minutes to harden a bit.  Then, drizzle a thin layer of caramel sauce over the hot fudge sauce, and  you guessed it, back in the freezer for 10 minutes. 

Remove pie crust from freezer and scoop the ice cream into the shell, about 3/4 of the way up.  It helps to have the ice cream VERY soft at this point.  Next, layer a nice amount of cool whip on top of the ice cream.  Scatter the crushed oreos on top of the cool whip.  Lastly, drizzle a touch more hot fudge sauce and caramel sauce over the entire pie.  Place the pie into the freezer until just before serving.  That’s it!