This decadent, creamy Keto Grasshopper Mousse Pie is a no bake dessert made sugar free, low carb, gluten free, keto and nut free as well! Just 3 g net carbs per serving!
What is a Grasshopper?
A Grasshopper is a sweet, mint flavored after dinner drink with its green color coming from creme de menthe.
It was created in 1918 in the French Quarter of Louisiana. While this something I have never drank or want to drink, the green color and the mint flavor work perfectly for celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a family or even Easter with the fun, light green color!
The secret ingredient for this lovely special treat for St.Patrick's day, is using a small amount of avocado to achieve that natural green color. You won't notice any flavor of avocado because the peppermint extract and peppermint stevia will overcome that avocado taste.
St. Patrick's Day was never a holiday we'd celebrate when I was growing up, in my Italian household. My mom never made green food and I never ate Corned Beef and Cabbage until I met my husband and married. But I must be honest, I love all the traditional holiday menu items and enjoy carrying on traditions for my kids!
My children see and hear about all things green during this time of year so I feel obligated as a momma to provide them some of these traditional favorites during this time of year.
Carbs in Grasshopper Pie
According to Cronometer, the app I use daily for my keto diet, says that one piece of a 9 inch pie with chocolate crust has 47.3 g total carbs and 432 calories.
That amount of carbs is too high if you're on a keto diet. It may work for those on a low carb diet, but if you're watching your sugar intake because you're diabetic or have sugar cravings, this pie has 32 grams of sugar.
Carbs in Keto Grasshopper Pie
Our healthier version of a traditional Grasshopper pie, has just 3 grams net carbs and 5 grams total carbs. When your sweet tooth is calling, the best thing about our keto grasshopper pie is that it won't spike your blood sugar.
All remaining nutritional information is below in the recipe card, bottom of this post.
Healthy Grasshopper Pie
But this dessert has been their number 1 favorite by far! The creamy filling is creamy mint mousse has always been their favorite, just like me. So adding some mint and some green color made this a win win for the whole family to celebrate St.Patty's day!
Drizzle on a little more Chocolate sauce right before serving for extra deliciousness!
Super light texture, but totally satisfying in every bite.
It may be hard to resist one serving so it's best if you enjoy this for a special occasion, when you can share with others!
Left overs can be dangerous, you've been warned!
Traditional Chocolate Cookie Crust
You can use any pie crust you like. The nutrition info includes my own no bake crust recipe and I think chocolate is the favorite for this type of pie.
But I've got others if you're not into the no bake chocolate crust.
All my crusts are nut free since my youngest has a tree nut allergy.
This is a baked Chocolate pie crust, or try my Easy Keto Pie Crust or the crust from this No Bake frozen Strawberry Pie.
Can I change the peppermint stevia?
If you don't have peppermint stevia it's not the end of the world but it adds an extra punch to that mint flavor. You can use any sweetener you enjoy, I would say just ½ cup.
Since this is a no bake pie, you can truly use any low carb sweetener you like and taste as you go along. I would not recommend any low carb sweetener that is granulated for this creamy mousse pie.
For example low carb erythritol, because this is a no bake pie and therefore the granulated sweetener will not incorporate well into the pie filling. It would leave you with a grainy texture in my experience and humble opinion. I'd recommend a low carb powdered sweetener or just use liquid sweeteners like stevia or monk fruit.
Here's my Ultimate Low Carb Sweetener Guide to help you decide how much of another sugar substitute to use instead of the ones I used in the whole pie.
Can I replace avocado?
If you have an allergy to avocado and can't use it, replace it with more cream cheese in the same amount and then use some natural food coloring to achieve the light green color.
Can I make this a Paleo Grasshopper Pie?
If you want to make this grasshopper pie dairy free you will need to replace the cream cheese with a vegan cream cheese and replace the heavy cream with canned coconut milk or coconut cream, just the white part of the can, which is nice and thick.
Can I use fresh mint leaves?
If you want to use real mint leaves instead of mint extract, you could do that. I'd recommend processing it with a small amount of water in a blender to make more of a puree that can easily be mixed in with the cream cheese and heavy whipping cream.
More Sugar Free Minty Desserts:
- Healthier Low Carb Shamrock Shake
- Sugar-Free Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
- Sugar-Free Grasshopper Milkshake
Sugar Free Keto Grasshopper Mousse Pie
Sugar-Free Grasshopper Mousse Pie
Ingredients
No Bake Chocolate Pie Crust
- ¾ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup sunflower seeds raw, unsalted (or almonds if no nut allergy)
- 4 tablespoon butter room temperature
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup Swerve confectioners or use Chocolate stevia or Chocolate Monk Fruit.
Filling
- ½ cup water
- 1 teaspoon gelatin
- 5 ounces avocado mashed
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 teaspoon peppermint liquid stevia
- pinch salt
- 1 cup heavy cream
- Optional Topping: Sugar-Free Chocolate Sauce (add some mint stevia to melted sugar-free chocolate chips and coconut oil)
- Optional: a few drops of green food coloring if you want a darker green color.
Instructions
Pie Crust
- To make the pie crust, combine all ingredients into a food processor and blend just enough to combine. Don't over blend or you will have the texture of peanut butter.
- Taste crust batter to see if you need more salt or sweetness.
- Using your fingers spread and mold crust onto the bottom and sides of pie plate. Set aside.
Pie Filling
- Pour the water into a small saucepan and sprinkle the gelatin on top.
- Turn on low heat, stirring constantly until gelatin is dissolved. Let cool.
- Place the avocado, cream cheese, peppermint extract, stevia and salt into a stand mixer and blend on high until smooth or place in a large bowl and use an electric hand mixer to blend.
- Taste and adjust sweetness if needed.
- Pour in heavy whipping cream in another mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to blend on high until soft peaks form. Fold into the cream cheese mixture.
- Gradually pour in the cooled gelatin and stir until combined.
- Pour filling into pie crust.
- Refrigerate at least 2 hours, loosely covered or up to 1 day in an airtight container.
- When ready to serve add optional chocolate drizzle if desired.
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Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Rachel
Do you have any suggestions to replace the shredded coconut? I can’t handle the texture and flavor but this pie sound delicious so I would love to make it!
Brenda Bennett
You could use another no bake crust like this one which doesn't have shredded coconut; https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/no-bake-coconut-flour-chocolate-pie-crust-low-carb-nut-free-gluten-free/
Vanessa Amores
What's the recipe for the chocolate sauce? Did i miss it or was it not included in the nutritional info?
Dominique Bjorlin
I made this last night for my mint chocolate loving hubby and kids, and it was a hit! They couldn’t believe it was sugar free! I used vanilla stevia and mint chocolate flavoring, because that’s what I had, and it worked great! Thanks for this great chocolate mint pie!
Anonymous
What can I use in place of swerve? It's way too expensive for my budget (I live in Canada). I would rather avoid regular confectioner's sugar.
Brenda
Monk fruit sweetener also has a confectioners that is great!
Joan
What size pie plate did you use?
patricia
for dairy free.....do you think coconut cream whipped, could be subbed for the whipping cream? Thanks
Brenda
Yes I think that would work.
Maryjane
Could I use Almond flour instead of the sunflower seeds? Also I am not sugar free, but could I use confectioners sugar for the Swerve and regular sugar for the peppermint stevia, if I do that what amount of sugar would I use?
I would love to make this for Saturday night, we have a family gathering.
Brenda
I think swapping almond for the sunflower seeds would be fine. Yes you could swap the Swerve with regular confectioners sugar but Swerve is only 70% the sweetness compared to regular sugar, and as far as the stevia in the pie, just add a small amount of whatever you use to sweeten desserts then taste and adjust it as needed.
patricia
Looks delicious. I have to be dairy free, do you think that whipped coconut milk would sub for the shipping cream? Thanks,
Kristina
Hi, I have a few questions that I would love if you could answer since St. Patrick's Day is coming up very soon and I'd also love if you could answer all my questions but totally understand if you can't. Do you measure the 5 ounces of avocado while it's still in the skin or after you scoop it out? How much peppermint oil could I use instead of peppermint extract & peppermint stevia? Is there something I could use to give it a more vibrant green color? I once tried making an avocado chocolate pudding but it was very avocado-y so what I'm wondering is does the amount of mint in this make the avocado taste disappear? Also lastly does this keep better out on the counter, in the fridge, or does it not affect how long the avocado lasts where ever you put it?
Brenda
After you've cleaned, pitted the avocado then measure it. I don't know how strong peppermint oil is compared to the extract and stevia I used sorry. To give it more vibrant color you could add natural food coloring. Yes the avocado flavor is masked by the mint. Best if kept in the fridge.
Bobbi
Roughly how many days can it be kept in the fridge?
Brenda
At least 5.
Cheryl
I'm concerned that the avocados will turn brown if I make this a day ahead as suggested. If not, what keeps the avocados from turning brown? Also can the gelatin be dissolved in cream-de-menthe? I know that would add a little sugar but it would give the pie a pretty color and I would probably omit the peppermint oil. I'm just starting to try to cook low carb so I have very little experience with the sugar substitutes, but I really dislike the taste of Stevia.
Brenda
When I made it the following next two days it was still perfect, no browning.
Deborah McWhorter
If I just have regular stevia, not peppermint, would you suggest just adding a tiny bit more peppermint oil in addition to the regular stevia?
Brenda
I think that would be fine.
Kirsten
Cant wait to try this out
Brenda
Thanks! Hope you love it like we did!
Nutmeg Nanny
What a delicious looking pie! I love that light mousse texture and all the mint flavor 🙂 Plus what a fun way to use avocados!
Renee - Kudos Kitchen
Oooh. This looks light and fluffy and I love that little touch of mint along with the chocolate drizzle.
What a nice pie for celebrating St. Patrick's day.
Rose | The Clean Dish
We never celebrated St. Patrick's Day either; it wasn't until I was in college that I was exposed to some of the fun traditions! This pie is to die for, Brenda! And that chocolate sauce? Yum!! The crust sounds wonderful, too. I mostly do no-bake stuff so this recipe is going on the list!
Brenda
Thanks Rose!
Sarah Walker Caron (Sarah's Cucina Bella)
What a tasty pie! I love the combination of mint and chocolate!
Kirsten / Comfortably Domestic
Whoa. The pie sure is pretty, but that crust really sounds fantastic!
Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet
I love the pumpkin seeds in the crust, I've got to give that a try! The pie looks and sounds awesome!
The Food Hunter
Growing up Italian we never celebrated St. Patricks day...
Marty
Did you know St. Patrick was actually Italian?
Lora @savoringitaly
Your crust sounds fantastic with the raw pumpkin seeds! How nice that it has avocados in the mousse. Such a lovely idea for this time of year!!
Lauren Kelly Nutrition
I absolutely love this pie! We do corned beef and cabbage and I do some green foods (naturally green of course 😉 ) but this looks like something I'd make all year long!
Stephanie
Your recipes are so creative - I'm always amazed that they are sugar free! This looks awesome!
Ashley @ Wishes & Dishes
I never grew up celebrating St. Patrick's day either! I guess it's party of growing up Italian 🙂 Love this pie and the lovely color!