Girl Scout Thin Mint Grasshopper Pie

GRASSHOPPER PIE

1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened

1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk

15 drops green food coloring

24 chocolate-covered Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, divided

4 cups whipped topping such as Cool Whip

1 chocolate crumb crust (9 inches)

Chocolate syrup

In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in milk until smooth. Beat in the food coloring. Coarsely crush 16 cookies; stir into the cream cheese mixture. Fold in 2 cups whipped topping. Spoon into the crust. Cover and freeze overnight. Remove from the freezer 15 minutes before serving. Garnish with remaining cookies and chocolate syrup.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Fun Facts about Girl Scout Cookies that you may or may not have known:

• There's an app that can actually help you locate the nearest place to buy Girl Scout Cookies. It's called the Girl Scout Cookie Finder App. 
• Thin Mints didn’t make their debut until 1959.  Before Thin Mints, they were called Cooky-Mints. 
• The first known sale of Girl Scout Cookies happened in 1917 when the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked and sold cookies in their high school cafeteria.  
• Girl Scout cookies are produced by two bakeries: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers. The “core five” cookies are the same:  Thin Mints, Trefoils or Shortbread, Samoa’s or Caramel deLites, Tagalongs or Peanut Butter Patties, and Do-si-dos or Peanut Butter Sandwiches. If your cookies are called Samoa’s, Tagalongs, Trefoils, and Do-si-dos, they’re produced by Little Brownie Bakers; if they’re called Shortbread, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, and Peanut Butter Sandwiches, they’re produced by ABC Bakers. 
• During World War II, due to shortages of key ingredients like flour, sugar, and butter, Scouts supplemented their Cookies by selling calendars too. Deficits were so bad some customers were limited to purchasing only two boxes.  

What is your favorite Girl Scout Cookie?

Welcome to the 2018 A-Z Blogging challenge.  This will be my fourth year. Every year I take on the challenge with hopes of disciplining myself to keep writing throughout the year as much, if not more than just through the monthly challenge. (It certainly is a challenge.)  Some years are better than others.  Some I just lose track of time.  This year I have decided to put my favorite hobbies together. A recipe that is tried and true as well as some thoughtful insight.  Please note some of these recipes have been shared before, however they have gone through years of testing and this is the perfected recipe.  I really hope one of my recipes or “Food for Thought” inspires you to do something great.  Enjoy the read and the photos, try the recipe, share your thoughts or comments, and most of all, have FUN with the challenge this month!

Cheers and enjoy your cookies!