Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie

Crust

1 1/3 cups GF graham cracker crumbs

1/3 cup butter, melted

¼ cup sugar

Combine graham cracker crumbs, butter, & sugar in bowl.

Press into bottom & up sides of 9 inch pie plate sprayed with GF baking spray.

Bake at 350° for 10 minutes.

Cool on wire rack.

May freeze until ready to use.

 Filling 

1qt. vanilla ice cream, softened (easily scoopable, but firmer than soft serve)

1 cup pure pumpkin

½ cup packed brown sugar

¾ tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp ground ginger

½ tsp ground nutmeg

¼ tsp salt

Mix all of the ingredients for filling until well blended then spoon over crust.

Freeze until completely firm, at least 3 hours (may freeze for days-weeks ahead of time). Put into freezer right away after you spoon the filling into the crust. The filling gets very runny, very quickly!

If freezing for an extended period of time, double wrap in plastic wrap then wrap in foil to avoid freezer burn. (I recommend putting it in the freezer to set, then wrapping it. This will help keep it from sticking to the plastic wrap.)

Let pie sit out for about 20 minutes before serving.

Optional Topping Suggestions

  GF Chocolate Ice cream topping

   Whipped Cream

   Graham cracker crumbs

   Chopped nuts

   GF caramel ice cream topping

Cinnamon

Notes:

I can’t always find GF graham cracker crumbs. But it’s pretty easy to make your own! It takes about 8-10 GF graham crackers. Put the crackers in a ziplock bag, then just crush them with a mallet or rolling pin.

In case you noticed, the pie is in a quiche dish, not a pie plate. My 9 inch pie plate had an apple pie in it when I made this pie, so I improvised! (FYI - it worked, but it was a little challenging to get it out to serve.)

A 15 ounce can of pumpkin is about 1½ cups, so you have a couple options. Just use part of the can & figure out another use for the ½ cup or so left over, use more pumpkin & less ice cream, or make a bigger pie (maybe make one & a half crust recipe & put in at least a 10 inch pie crust & increase your ice cream by maybe a pint & add a little more of each seasoning).