Grasshopper

The Grasshopper is a sweet, creamy after-dinner cocktail built from equal parts green crème de menthe, white crème de cacao and fresh cream, shaken hard with ice and strained up into a chilled cocktail glass. Pale mint-green and silky, it tastes of cool peppermint and milk chocolate over a soft dairy body — in effect a mint-chocolate dessert in a glass. It is a New Orleans drink, associated with Tujague's bar in the French Quarter, and became a standard of the mid-century American South. The name comes from the drink's bright green colour, which is given entirely by the crème de menthe.