Ice Cream Pie Recipes

Recipes To Make Your Fantasy Ice Cream Pie

June 3, 2017 at 8:52 am · Filed under Father's Day, Ice Cream-Sorbet-Yogurt, Recipes, Tip Of The Day

One of the easiest yet most impressive desserts you can make is an ice cream pie.

In its quickest form, you buy a cookie crumb pie crust, a quart of ice cream, and a jar of dessert sauce. Press the softened ice cream into the crust, freeze, garnish, and serve.

Have a few extra minutes? Make your own cookie crumb crust and sauce, and create two different layers of ice cream, with a nifty filling in-between.

It’s a make-ahead dessert that you can keep in the freezer, waiting for an impromptu occasion.

(Truth to tell, that pie wouldn’t last a day in our freezer unless someone put a lock on the door. It’s iffy survival here for any ice cream, cake, or cookies.)

National Ice Cream Pie Day is August 18th. National Ice Cream Day is the third Sunday in July. National pie day is January 23rd.

> The history of ice cream.

> The history of pie.

> The recipe for Sweet & Salty Ice Cream Pie is below.

CREATE YOUR FANTASY ICE CREAM PIE RECIPE

What’s your fantasy ice cream pie? Use the following template to create your signature pie:

Crust: Chocolate wafers, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies, Oreos, shortbread.

Ice cream: Pick your flavor(s). You can also combine an ice cream and a sorbet (e.g., Creamsicle pie). Mango or raspberry sorbet is exquisite, combined with vanilla ice cream.

Liqueur: Blend in 3 tablespoons per quart of ice cream, 1 tablespoon per 1.5 cups of sauce.

Sauce: Butterscotch*, caramel*, chocolate, fruit purée, liqueur†.

Mix-ins: M&Ms, toffee bits, flavored chips, mix whole or halved berries, diced fresh fruit, etc.

Fillings: If you don’t mix anything into the ice cream itself, you can use candies or fruits as a layer, either between two different flavors or in the middle of a single flavor.

Garnish: Chocolate shavings, fruit, candy pieces, etc.

You can spend the summer working on recipes (one per weekend, perhaps?) and show off the “winners” over Labor Day Weekend.

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*Butterscotch and caramel are similar, with a key difference: Butterscotch is made with brown sugar, and caramel is made with white granulated sugar. To create a sauce, the sugar is melted over high heat and blended with butter and cream.

†You can add liqueur to the sauce; or if there’s no sauce, sprinkle it over the top of the pie. We add it to the softened ice cream as well.

RECIPE: SWEET & SALTY ICE CREAM PIE

This pie uses store-bought ice cream, but you make the crust and topping from scratch. Prep time is 20 minutes, cook time is 20 minutes.

Ingredients For 1 Pie

2 cups pretzels, finely ground

1/2 cup butter, melted

4 tablespoons sugar

1-1/2 quarts vanilla ice cream

5 (1.4-ounce) chocolate-covered toffee bars, crushed (substitute 7 ounces of other toffee)

1/2 cup salted peanuts, chopped Snickers bar

For The Caramel Sauce

1 cup light brown sugar, lightly packed

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon vanilla

Preparation

Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream Pie
[1] Peanut butter ice cream on a brownie base. Here’s the recipe from Go Bold With Butter.

[2] Homemade blueberry ice cream pie. You can also blend puréed blueberries into store-bought vanilla ice cream (photo courtesy Elegant Affairs Caterers).

Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie
[3] Grasshopper pie: the mint ice cream tastes even better with a few tablespoons of creme de menthe liqueur. Here’s the recipe from Taste Of Home.

Snickers Pie
[4] Sweet and salty ice cream pie from Go Bold With Butter. The recipe is at left.

1. PREHEAT the oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, combine pretzels, butter, and sugar. Press mixture into bottom and up sides of 9-inch pie plate. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool completely.

2. REMOVE the ice cream from the freezer and let it soften for 5 minutes. Place the ice cream in the bowl of an electric mixer and mix until smooth. Add the crushed toffee bars and peanuts, mixing to combine.

3. POUR the mixture into the cooled crust. Cover and freeze until completely firm.

4. MAKE the caramel sauce: Combine the brown sugar, butter, heavy cream, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and boil for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the sauce begins to thicken. Remove from heat and add the vanilla. Let cool.

5. SERVE the pie with the caramel sauce. Garnish with extra toffee pieces and peanuts.

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