No Bake Ice Cream Pie: Easy Summer Dessert

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There’s nothing quite like an Ice Cream Pie on a hot summer day. It’s classic, it’s easy, and will remind you of grandma’s summer ice cream pie. Add your favorite ice cream and toppings, and freeze! Utterly perfect.

I feel nostalgic whenever I make an Ice Cream Pie. It brings to vivid memory summer days spent roaming the fields and orchards near my grandmother’s house.

We lived in Los Angeles where yes, sunny days were the norm. But when we visited grandma’s house, those sunny days were a bit different.

The days were hotter, brighter, dustier… longer.

For you see, my grandmother lived in a rural area of Washington state. My sister and I would often visit during summers while our parents traveled overseas. Those idyllic days were packed with activity from the morning’s first light to the last rays of the setting sun.

Climbing trees, capturing grasshoppers in mason jars with nail holes poked in the lid, building forts, tents, playing dress up in our mother’s old clothes… and getting dustier and dirtier than we’d ever been. Forever long days with cousins and evenings spent racing around the house and learning funny games we’d never heard of like “alley-Over.” That was summer at grandma’s house.

My grandmother had a clever room at the back of her house. A space that fascinated and drew me to it. A room lined with narrow shelves housing thousands (it seemed) of mason jars packed with a rainbow of brightly colored seasonal goodies. Fruits and veggies, jams, and preserves. It was alluring, even back then.

But what I most loved in that room was the deep freeze. A gigantic ice chest filled with all kinds of treasures. Namely… ice cream. In many shapes and sizes. All kinds of flavors… especially Neapolitan.

At the end of every day, we had a tradition with grandma and that deep freeze. It was all I could do to get through dinner.

But I knew the reward that was waiting.

For when the dinner plate was mostly clean, and the dishes washed and put away, grandma and I would make a trip to that back room. And she would open that cavernous deep freezer, cooling in the air of her pantry.

I loved the ice cream… but I was equally anticipating that frigid blast of arctic air that would fill the room. It felt so good!

Later, we would sit on the back porch with the squeaky screen door, listening for crickets and the tinkling of grandpa’s wind chimes.

Tired from endless summer days, we would relish the coolness of our ice cream Sundays, ice cream pies, banana splits, and even simple bowls of Neopolitan ice cream I would mix together with my spoon until it became more milkshake than ice cream.

Glorious summer days.

And this Ice Cream Pie reminds me of those halcyon days.

Make summer last.

This recipe was inspired by an Ice Cream Sunday with peanut studded chocolate candy and hot fudge sauce. But make it your own by adding a favorite candy, or even fruit.

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