Creamy · Nightcap · Winter

Grasshopper

White cacao, green mint and cream shaken to a pale green. Tastes like an after-dinner mint, drinks like dessert.

Base: —
Glass: Coupe glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 11.27% ABV

Ingredients

20 mlCrème de Cacao
20 mlCrème de Menthe
20 mlFresh Cream1 swap
Whole milk or half-and-halfmedium
Lighter, less rich

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

Pour all ingredients into shaker filled with ice.
Shake briskly for few seconds.
Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Serve

Glass

Coupe glassAlso fine: Martini glass, Nick & Nora glass

Garnish

Mint leafSlap it once between your palms first; that wakes the oil without bruising it.

Taste & nutrition

11.27%ABV

258kcal

0.67Drinks

StrengthLight

Sweet to drySweet

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Chill your glass first for a colder, better-tasting drink.

History

Year1918

PlaceNew Orleans, USA

Created byPhilip Guichet (Tujague’s)

A minty-green dessert cocktail of crème de menthe, crème de cacao and cream, the Grasshopper is the signature drink of Tujague's in New Orleans. Bartender Philip Guichet is said to have entered an early version in a 1918 New York cocktail contest. Its colour and sweet, after-dinner character earned the insect name. It has become a retro icon of the American South.

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