Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars
Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars are perfect for the mint lovers in your life! And if you’re looking for a St. Patrick’s Day recipe, you’re covered! The green cheesecake filling is a wonderful way to celebrate one’s Irish heritage!
Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars
With the boys out of the house, I need to focus on smaller desserts. Big ol’ cheesecakes and layer cakes would take forever for the 3 of us to finish. Plus we all have our own preferences and there is not much overlap. The only mint Bill will ingest comes in a tube and goes on his toothbrush. But all 3 kids love minty desserts.
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, I figured a small batch of mint cheesecake bars would be a nice green treat for Katie. A chocolate cookie crust was the base for these bars, followed by a minty creme de menthe flavored filling and ganache topping.
Mint Cheesecake Bars
I used Nabisco Famous wafers, but even Oreos will work. No need to remove the filling if you substitute; just process the cookies until crumbs form and eliminate the sugar from the crust ingredients. The baked then cooled crust was layered with a cream cheese mixture flavored with Creme de Menthe liqueur.
The filling smelled strongly of alcohol, but only the mint flavor will remain after baking. If you’d like, you can substitute a bit of peppermint extract and a few drops of green food coloring. The ganache topping was made with milk chocolate chips as Katie is not the heavy-duty chocolate lover like the men in the family. Semisweet chips would work just as well…just go with your preference.
Katie and I both loved these puppies. Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars are perfect for St. Patty’s Day, too.
More Cheesecake Bars and Desserts You’ll Love:
More Cheesecake Bars and Desserts You’ll Love:- Blueberry Cheesecake Bars from CopyKat Recipes
- Berry Topped Cheesecake Bars
- Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
- Oreo Cheesecake
- 6-inch Instant Pot Cheesecake
- Ganache Topped Cheesecake
- No-Bake Oreo Cheesecake
- Hot Fudge Brownie Cheesecake
Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars
Layered minty cheesecake bars!
Ingredients
Crust:
- 1 ½ cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- 2 T sugar
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
Filling:
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 3 tablespoons creme de menthe
Glaze:
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º.
- Stir together crust ingredients and press into an 8x8 pan lined with non-stick foil or regular foil sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool.
- Beat cream cheese and sugar till smooth. Add egg and mix till incorporated. Mix in flour. Stir in creme de menthe. Spread batter over cooled crust and bake 30-35 minutes. Cool.
- Melt butter with chocolate chips in the microwave, stopping and stirring in 30-second increments, till melted and smooth. Mix in corn syrup. Cool slightly before pouring over cream cheese layer. Chill completely before cutting.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 228Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 43mgSodium: 161mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 1gSugar: 17gProtein: 3g
67 Comments on “Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars”
These look so refreshing!
This gal wouldn’t mind relaxing with some of these bars and one of those books. Yum!
These are so pretty, Lizzy. I love the perfect layers. My husband won’t eat anything with mint either. He thinks chocolate and mint is a foul combination. But I’m with you – I think it’s the best xx
I love how gorgeous those look, thanks so much for sharing!!
Simple and delicious, with bold flavours. I love these, Liz! As always, your dessert looks perfect – how in the heck do you cut them into such even squares? I totally need to scale down the desserts I bake – often I make them for gatherings but sometimes, I make a huge cake for the blog and then force myself to give it all away, otherwise it’ll just be adding to my waistline, lol.
Another delicious creation. Looks perfect.
These look amazing, and what beautiful photos! When I was little my brother who were much older told me they had actual grasshoppers in them. Wow, was I relieved when I found out it wasn’t true… boys! 😉 Thanks for the awesome take on a grasshopper pie!
Oh it is like an even better version of thin mints! 🙂
These are beautiful!
These look like they came from a fine French bakery. They are perfect and beautiful!
They do look absolutely delicious and pieces of perfection.
exquisiely delisheously sinful!
I just saved in my faves! x
This sounds delicious and perfect for St Patricks Day!
What luscious bars, I love chocolate mint!
Pretty dessert, and I’ll bet the flavor is wonderful. Love the idea of these, and you’re right they’d be perfect for St. Pat’s. And I do happen to have some creme de menthe on hand. 😉 Good stuff – thanks.
Your cheesecake is perfect! I love the flavor grasshopper. That sounded kind of weird! lol I also have to comment on how perfect your cheesecake is cut!! I can not cut a straight line if my life depended on it!
These sound sweet and refreshing. Cut into such perfect bars is perfect for portion control ,if you can keep yourself from eating more than 1. 🙂 I bet they would be pretty with white peppermint filling too. Thanks!
Yum, I think that I might have to try these!
Those are beautiful! Yes, I agree that single serving desserts are best. So how do you stay skinny while baking 🙂 I have trouble with that but I love treats too much to ever give them up.
They are beautiful. I may have to try them.