It’s that time of year where easy-to-make frozen treats are welcome in this warm weather. This is a slightly lighter ice cream pie too, so that’s a bonus! Cherries are cooked with a little bit of brandy and swirled in with low fat vanilla ice cream to make the filling. Add in a crunchy, buttery graham cracker crust and you’ve got a dessert that will make everyone happy.
Ingredients needed for Cherries Jubilee Ice Cream Pie:
graham cracker crumbs butter honey frozen sweet cherries sugar brandy cornstarch vanilla ice cream
How to make the crust:
The crust for this pie is a simple mix of graham cracker crumbs, butter and honey. It’s mixed together, pressed into a pie pan and baked.
How to make the cherry sauce:
The cherry sauce is a mix of frozen sweet cherries, water, sugar, brandy and cornstarch. Why brandy? Traditional cherries jubilee calls for brandy. So that’s why it’s added in to this Cherries Jubilee Ice Cream Pie. The ingredients for the sauce are heated together in a saucepan until boiling and thickened. Once cooled, you’ll take 1/2 cup of the sauce and purée it in a food processor or blender. The rest of the sauce you can refrigerate until serving time.
The pie filling:
Softened vanilla ice cream is combined with the puréed cherry sauce.
The ice cream filling is then poured on top of the baked pie crust, and you can put a little bit of the sauce in the middle to make it pretty. It should freeze for at least four hours before serving. I prefer to make it one day and let it freeze overnight to serve the following day.
Once the ice cream filling has frozen completely, you can slice and serve your Cherries Jubilee Ice Cream Pie.
Be sure to top individual slices with more of the delicious cherry sauce. Enjoy!
Here are a few more pie recipes you might like to try:
Chocolate Banana Ice Cream Pie with Peanut Butter Crust Easy Buttermilk Pie Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie Grasshopper Pie Chocolate Covered Pretzel Pie Hoosier Pie Chocolate Chess Pie Frozen Cranberry Velvet Pie
