Are you searching for a simple, showstopping, summer season dessert recipe that is spectacular sufficient for a celebration? Here is tips on how to make an ice cream pie, together with instructions for a cookie crust (with variations), plus concepts for fillings and toppings. Everybody will find it irresistible!

For the very primary recipe:

1 cookie crust (store-bought or constituted of scratch – recipe follows)

1 tub ice cream (1 quart – 1/2 gallon)

toppings

Soften the ice cream, till it is simply smooth sufficient to scoop out simply, then put into ready pie shell. Clean out the highest. Cowl evenly. Freeze till agency, at the least two hours or in a single day. Take away from freezer quarter-hour earlier than serving. Then garnish with desired toppings (whipped cream, chocolate or caramel sauce, magic shell, crushed cookies, recent fruit, and so on.

After all, you would simply purchase a pie shell and fill it with ice cream and it might be a pleasant dessert. However if you wish to impress your company, then you may make a scrumptious cookie crust from scratch and fill your pie shell with attention-grabbing taste combos, mix-ins and toppings.

HOMEMADE COOKIE CRUST

1 1/2 cups superb crumbs (from graham crackers, ginger snaps, vanilla wafers, chocolate cookies, shortbread – any crisp cookie, store-bought or do-it-yourself)

1/4 cup granulated sugar

6 tablespoons butter, melted

Crush crumbs in a meals processor or the quaint manner – in a big, heavy-duty resealable bag. (Go away a small opening within the high of the bag to permit air to flee.) Roll a rolling pin over the plastic bag till the cookies are damaged into crumbs.

Combine crumbs and sugar collectively, stir in melted butter. Line pie plate with combination, urgent firmly into place. Bake at 350 levels for 8 minutes. Cool completely earlier than including ice cream.

PRETZEL CRUMB CRUST:

2 cups crushed (very superb) pretzels

1/2 cup melted butter

1/3 cup sugar

Mix all crust components. Press crumbs over backside and up sides of 9-inch pie plate. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool utterly.

NO-BAKE OREO CRUST

13 Oreo cookies, crushed

1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick), melted

Combine Oreos and butter collectively and firmly press right into a 9-inch pie pan over the underside and all the way in which up the edges. Chill for 20 minutes to set.

Now, for the enjoyable half. Get inventive and give you some combos for some really spectacular desserts:

• ICE CREAM MUD PIE – Oreo crust, espresso ice cream, topped with thick chocolate syrup

• PEACH MELBA ICE CREAM PIE – Nilla wafer crust, peach ice cream, topped with raspberry sauce, garnished with recent peaches

• BANANA-SPLIT ICE CREAM PIE – Chocolate cookie crust, layer of thinly sliced bananas, adopted by strawberry ice cream, freeze – earlier than serving, high with drained crushed pineapple, whipped cream and maraschino cherries.

• SNICKERS ICE CREAM PIE – Make chocolate cookie crust, including 1/4 cup peanuts to the recipe. Combine into soften vanilla ice cream – 6 (2 oz) coarsely chopped Snickers bars. Unfold combination in pie shell, freeze. Earlier than serving, drizzle with chocolate and caramel sauce and additonal chopped snickers bars to high.

• LEMONADE ICE CREAM PIE – Combine 1/2 gallon softened vanilla ice cream with a 12-oz can lemonade or limeade, barely thawed and unfold in a pretzel crust.

• PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM PIE – Combine 1/2 gallon softened vanilla ice cream with 1 cup peanut butter (easy or chunky) till mixed. Swirl in peanut butter chips, fudge chunks and fudge ice cream topping. Unfold combination in chocolate cookie pie shell. When able to serve, high with chocolate magic shell.

• PUMPKIN ICE CREAM PIE – Combine 1/2 gallon softened vanilla ice cream with 1 cup canned pumpkin, 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, 1 teaspoon floor ginger, 1/2 teaspoon floor cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon floor nutmeg. Unfold in a gingersnap cookie crust. Freeze till agency. Garnish with whipped cream.

• LAYERED ICE CREAM PIE – Unfold 3 cups of any taste ice cream in ready pie shell, high with crushed sweet, cookie crumbs or ice cream sauce – freeze for half-hour. Take away from freezer, unfold 3 cups of a special taste ice cream on high. Refreeze 2 hours – in a single day. Some concepts: orange sorbet and vanilla ice cream layers for a creamsicle ice cream pie; or layers of chocolate and occasional ice cream for a mocha ice cream pie. How about chocolate ice cream layered with cherry vanilla ice cream for a chocolate-cherry ice cream pie (garnish with chocolate coated cherries).

Together with your creativeness, you may make your personal signature model of this ice cream pie. Use your favourite cookies (for the crust), ice cream flavors, mix-ins and toppings to place collectively this super-easy dessert. It is certain to be the hit of any occasion!