Lemon Ice Cream Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Combine cracker crumbs, pecans, sugar and butter; press onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. pie plate. Bake 10-12 minutes or until crust is lightly browned. Cool completely on a wire rack. Freeze 30 minutes., Spread 2 cups ice cream into the crust. Freeze 30 minutes. In a small bowl, combine lemon curd and lemon juice. Spread over ice cream and freeze until firm, about 1 hour. Top with remaining ice cream. Freeze 2 hours or until set., In a large heavy saucepan, combine egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar. With a hand mixer, beat on low speed 1 minute. Continue beating over low heat until mixture reaches 160°, about 8 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl; beat until stiff glossy peaks form and sugar is dissolved., Immediately spread meringue over ice cream, sealing to edges of pie. Heat with a kitchen torch or broil 8 in. from the heat 3-5 minutes or until meringue is lightly browned. Freeze at least 1 hour before serving.

Steps:

• Spoon ice cream into pie crust; freeze 2 hours or until firm., Spread lemon curd over ice cream; top with whipped topping. Freeze, covered, 4 hours or until firm. , Remove from freezer 10 minutes before serving. Serve with strawberries.

Steps:

• To Make Curd: Combine sugar, 6 tablespoons cubed butter, and fresh lemon juice in top of double boiler. Set over pan of simmering water and stir until sugar dissolves and butter melts. Beat eggs, yolks and lemon peel in bowl until well blended. Gradually whisk warm butter mixture into egg mixture. Return mixture to double boiler and cook over simmering water until curd is thick and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, stirring constantly, about 10 minutes; do not boil. Transfer lemon curd to bowl, whisking to smooth if necessary. Press plastic wrap directly into surface of curd and chill until cold, at least 1 hour. (Can be made 3 days ahead, keep refrigerated.).
• To Make Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter 9-inch springform pan with 2-3/4-inch high sides. Mix almonds, graham cracker crumbs, remaining butter, lemon peel and almond extract in medium bowl until mixture is evenly moist. Press crumbs over bottom and 1 inch up sides of prepared pan. Bake crust 8 minutes. Cool crust on rack.
• Assembly: Spread half of ice cream in crust. Spoon half of lemon curd over. Spread remaining ice cream over. Spoon remaining curd over ice cream by tablespoons. Use small knife to swirl curd into ice cream, forming pretty design. Freeze until just firm, about 1 hour. Wrap and freeze overnight. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead; keep frozen.) Let pie stand 10 minutes at room temperature. Cut pie into wedges and serve, spooning strawberries over, if desired.

Steps:

• For the pretzel crust: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Combine the pretzels, brown sugar and melted butter in a food processor; pulse until finely ground. Press the crust evenly into 5-inch pie molds. Bake for 4 minutes. Let cool completely.
• For the lemon ice cream: Combine all the ingredients in a large metal bowl. Place over a double boiler and whisk until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Let cool completely, then transfer the custard to an ice cream machine; spin for 20 minutes, until thick. Transfer to the freezer; freeze for 2 hours. Evenly fill each of the pie molds with the ice cream; freeze until ready to top with meringue.
• For the simple meringue: Combine the egg whites and sugar in a bowl; whisk to stiff peaks.
• Top the pies with the meringue. Toast the meringue with a kitchen torch, and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, 3 tablespoons sugar and a pinch of salt. Add the butter and lemon zest and work into the flour mixture until crumbly using your fingers or a pastry cutter. Separate the whole egg, adding the white to the other two for the meringue topping. Add the yolk to the dough and mix in until a soft dough forms. Press into the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie plate. Bake until golden, about 25 minutes. Cool. Lightly score the pie shell with a sharp knife (cutting about halfway through the crust) into 10 slices to make cutting the frozen pie easier.
• Place the lemon ice cream in a large bowl and mix with a stiff spatula or wooden spoon until smooth, about 2 minutes. Mix in the food coloring if using. Spoon into the pie shell, smooth the top and place in the freezer until firm, 2 hours or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Place all 3 egg whites, the remaining 1/3 cup sugar and a pinch of salt in a large heatproof bowl and put it over a pot with 1-inch of simmering water. Whisk until the sugar is dissolved, the eggs are warm and the mixture is fluffy. Whip with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until cooled, thick, glossy and stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes. Beat in the vanilla extract until just combined. Spread over the frozen pie and place in the oven until the meringue just browns, 1 to 2 minutes. Slice and serve.

Steps:

• For the lemon curd: Whisk eggs and egg yolks together in a medium bowl and set aside.
• Melt butter in a medium metal bowl set over a large pot of simmering water.
• Whisk in sugar, lemon juice, lemon peel and salt. Gradually whisk in eggs yolk mixture. (Thin stream and whisk constantly, be careful not to cook the eggs. May want the egg yolks at room temperature before beginning this step.).
• Continue cooking and whisking until thick and thermometer reads 178-180 degrees F, about 8 minutes. (I was unable to get my mixture above 162, even after turning water up to boiling and cooking for 14 minutes, but it seemed thick, so I stopped for fear of over cooking, and it turned out fine.).
• Transfer curd to a small bowl and cover with plastic wrap pressed down to the surface. Chill for a minimum of 4 hours.
• NOTE: Curd can be made up to 2 days ahead.
• For the crust: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix together pecans, sugar and butter in a medium bowl until moistened. Press into a 9-inch glass pie dish--mixture will be crumbly. (I used a 10-inch glass pie dish.).
• Bake crust until lightly toasted, about 12 minutes. Crust will slip down the sides of the dish. Use the back of a spoon to press crust back into place.
• Cool crust on a rack. Freeze crust for 30 minutes.
• Dollop 1 1/2 cups of the softened ice cream into the bottom of the crust and spread into an even layer. Spread the lemon curd over the ice cream and freeze until firm, about 2 hours. (Note: I froze after putting in the first ice cream layer, too, for about 30 minutes.).
• Spread the additional 1 1/2 cups of softened ice cream over the curd and freeze until firm, about 2 hours.
• For the meringue: Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites in a medium bowl until frothy. Beat in cream of tartar. With mixer running, gradually add sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form. Spoon meringue over pie, swirling decoratively.
• NOTE: All steps above can be done up to one day ahead of time. Freeze pie until ready to brown the meringue.
• To finish the pie, using a kitchen butane torch, toast the meringue until golden in spots or place pie in a preheated 500 degree F oven until meringue is golden in spots, watching to prevent burning (about 3 minutes). (I used the oven method.).
• Cut pie into wedges and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°. Bake cookie crust 5 minutes. Cool completely, about 20 minutes. Spread 1 cup of the vanilla ice cream over bottom of cooled crust. Freeze 30 minutes.
• Spread lemon sherbet over ice cream. Freeze 30 minutes.
• Spread remaining ice cream over sherbet. Freeze at least 4 hours until firm.
• Mix blueberries, preserves and lemon juice in small bowl; refrigerate until serving. Serve 1 tablespoon blueberry mixture over each slice of pie. Garnish with lemon peel.