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Flying Grasshopper

Classic/vintage · Creamy (e.g. Dirty banana) · Dessert cocktails

4.0 51 ratings

Ingredients

3/4 oz Vodka
3/4 oz White crème de cacao
3/4 oz Green crème de menthe
1 oz Whipping cream

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 RIM glass with cocoa powder and sugar (moisten outside of rim with sugar syrup and dip into cocoa powder and sugar mix).
  3. 3 Prepare garnish of mint sprig tip.

Method

  1. 4 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 5 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 6 Garnish with mint sprig tip floated in the centre of the cocktail.

Flavour profile

14.6% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 230 calories

History

Upgrade a standard Grasshopper to a Flying Grasshopper for this creamy after-dinner drink. A splash of vodka improves it, with extra vodka arguably making it even better. It is minty, fresh, and chocolatey, evoking choc mint ice-cream.

This is a more potent variation of the Grasshopper cocktail, dating from the 1970s or earlier. Some sources, such as Stan Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Bar Guide, omit the cream, listing the ingredients as: 1 part vodka, ¾ part green crème de menthe, and ¾ part white crème de cacao, resulting in a clear, emerald green cocktail.