Tropical Lime Ice Cream Pie
Why I Love This Recipe
This was made for the Archway cookie contest. Archway sent me an entire case of their cookies for inspiration (so awesome!) but I knew right away that I wanted to use the gingersnaps. Being it's been a hot and steamy summer, the tropics were where my head was at while thinking up a recipe. Lime and ginger are a perfect combination of flavors but alas, I could find nothing but sherbert in a lime flavor! So, I channeled my inner Bakespacer and decided I would make my own Lime flavored ice cream. It was beyond simple!! Who knew?? I put my homemade ice cream in a crust made of gingersnaps and topped the whole thing with a coconut cream topping w/ a light sprinkling of coarsely crushed gingersnaps and voila! Tropical Lime Ice Cream Pie was born.
Ingredients You'll Need
Lime Ice Cream:
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 can sweetened condensed milk
6 egg yolks
½ cup lime juice
zest of 1 lemon
Gingersnap crust:
1 1/4 cups crushed Archway Gingersnap cookies (about 30 cookies)
1/4 cup butter, melted
Topping:
1 c. milk
1 (8 oz.) Cool Whip
1 pkg. instant coconut pudding
¼ cup coarsely crushed Archway Gingersnap cookies
Directions
Lime Ice Cream:
1. Crack eggs and put yolks into a bowl.
2. Put 1 ½ cups of heavy whipping cream into a heavy saucepan and bring to a simmer.
3. Slowly add whipping cream to the egg yolks (start w/ a tablespoon at a time so as not to scramble your eggs!). Whisk together until smooth.
4. Pour mixture back into saucepan over medium low heat and whisk CONSTANTLY until mixture thickens. Pour thickened mixture into a clean glass bowl and allow to cool a bit.
5. Add, 1 at a time, the condensed milk, remainder of heavy cream (1/2 cup), lime juice and zest – combining thoroughly after each addition.
6. Move entire mixture to the freezer until thoroughly chilled (about 2 hours). Add to ice cream maker and follow mfg. directions.
*non-ice cream maker method*
Put bowl into freezer and every ½ hour, remove and mix well with either an electric beater or a heavy spoon. Return to freezer and repeat until ice cream has formed into desired consistency. (about 3 ½ hrs.)
Gingersnap crust:
1. In a small bowl, combine the crumbs and butter and blend well. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. pie plate.
2. Bake at 375 degrees F for 7 minutes. Cool on a wire rack before filling.
Coconut Cream Topping:
Combine instant pudding with cold milk and mix till smooth. Fold in whipped cream until combined.
Assemble:
1. Let ice cream sit out of the freezer until soft enough to work with. Spoon softened ice cream into gingersnap crust and smooth out to sides, top with coconut cream topping.
2. Garnish with coarsely crushed Archer Gingersnaps.
3. Return to freezer till firm.
Serving:
Remove pie about 15 minutes before serving
