{"id":20434,"date":"2017-05-22T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/?p=20434"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:01:03","slug":"strawberry-lemonade-ice-cream-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/strawberry-lemonade-ice-cream-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Lemonade Ice Cream Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Strawberry Lemonade Ice Cream Pie is an easy summer dessert the whole family will love! It’s wonderfully fruity, refreshingly tangy, and simple to throw together using just a few ingredients!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Strawberry Lemonade Ice Cream Pie—which my husband has called “ridiculously good<\/em>” and my father-in-law has declared “seriously delicious<\/em>” and my son has dubbed “harmphbsdfkjsldrooooool<\/em>”—has its roots in a quick and easy dessert my mom used to make when I was growing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe it or not, I didn’t grow up in a big dessert-eating family. I’m the oldest, and when I was growing up, my parents were trying this crazy thing called “healthy eating” that involved a lot of vegetables (and a lot of me pouting at the dinner table) and a distinct lack of after-dinner treats. Of course, by the time my youngest brother came around, it was all Fruity Pebbles for breakfast and brownies every night for dessert, but that’s another rant for another time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, all you need to know is that desserts were for special occasions, and little sugar-obsessed Baby Liz remembered every sweet bite with a mind like a steel trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of my favorite things my mom made was a thrown-together dessert consisting of vanilla ice cream<\/a>, graham crackers, frozen lemonade concentrate, and Cool Whip. (Is there a real name for this recipe? Leave me a comment and tell me if you know a name for this!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She would crush up the graham crackers<\/a> and put a layer of crumbs on the bottom of a 9×13-inch pan, then mix together softened ice cream, defrosted lemonade concentrate, and whipped topping, and spread it on top. Before freezing the whole dish, she’d add another layer of graham crackers on top. Once it was completely frozen, we’d eat square slices for dessert. It was tangy and refreshing, and somehow so much better than the sum of its parts. I remember LOVING it on hot summer days, and was always so excited whenever I saw a pan of this in the freezer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strawberries<\/a> and lemons are already a match made in heaven, and when you combine the creaminess of strawberry ice cream with the tart bite of condensed pink lemonade, you have one heck of a refreshing, sweet-tangy dessert. If you have strawberries to spare after making this pie, take a look at my collection of strawberry dessert ideas<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried making this with both freshly whipped cream and Cool Whip, and I preferred the freshly whipped cream version. It just blended so nicely into the ice cream and gave the final dessert a really nice texture that was firm enough to cut cleanly, but not icy or hard. But you can substitute one for the other in equal amounts, so use whichever you’d prefer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, if you want to get really fancy, try serving this delicious treat with my Love Potion Valentine’s Day Drink<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My final change in classing up this dessert was to use a fluted deep-dish tart pan<\/a> to make it a pie, rather than serving it in slabs from a rectangular pan. You can do it either way, but it’s not much more work to make a graham cracker crust<\/a>, plus then you can feel fancy when you whip out a whole pie at the end of a meal. No one needs to know it’s just something you threw together from the contents of your freezer! A quick swirl of whipped cream and some freshly sliced berries on top will give you all the gourmet gold stars you could ever desire. And, speaking of gold stars don’t forget to try my beloved Key Lime Pie<\/a>, Pistachio Pie with Lemon Whipped Cream<\/a> and Grapefruit Meringue Pie<\/a>! They are sure to please a crowd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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