Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie With Variations

A refreshing summer treat - both sweet and tart! Make your own pie crusts with the ingredients and instructions below or cheat and buy crusts. Either way you have an easy make-ahead dessert. My favorite to make at our lake cottage in Michigan. (Time includes chill time.)

• Ready In: 4 hrs 30 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 2 pies

Ingredients

• 3  cups graham cracker crumbs
• 2⁄3 cup butter, melted
• 6  tablespoons sugar
• 8  ounces Cool Whip, thawed
• 12  ounces  frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
• 1⁄2 gallon vanilla ice cream, softened
•  red food coloring (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Combine graham cracker crumbs, butter and sugar.
3. Press crumb mixture into two 9-inch pie plates.
4. Bake 10 minutes; cool.
5. Combine Cool Whip, lemonade and ice cream.
6. Add a few drops of food coloring at this time (if using), mixing well, until you get the desired color.
7. Mound mixture into pie crusts.
8. Freeze for at least 4 hours.
9. Variation 1: Use yellow lemonade and yellow food coloring.
10. Variation 2: Use limeade and green food coloring.