Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie is the perfect tart, cold, creamy summer treat that is easy to prepare and always a favorite. Only three ingredients!
Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie
A slice of this creamy Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie is your official welcome to summer! We know it’s summertime when this dessert becomes a regular after dinner treat around our house, usually served outside on the patio and always an absolute favorite. We’ve loved this recipe for years, when our mom would make it for dessert on Sunday afternoons. These days, my daughters look forward to helping me in the kitchen and this is a super easy recipe for them to help make. Sweet and tangy, creamy and cold with just enough crunch from a simple graham cracker crust, it’s a treat. And it takes less than ten minutes to make! Enjoy this beautiful dessert all summer long!
Secret Ingredient
Want to know what gives this pie its tart pink lemonade flavor? The secret ingredient is a regular packet of Pink Lemonade Kool Aid mix. And don’t opt for the sugar free variety, not this time. Everything in moderation, right? When you mix it with the vanilla ice cream, something magical happens. The mild vanilla ice cream blends together with that delicious lemon flavor that is neither too sweet or too tart. Just dreamy, pink perfection!
Substitutions for Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie
- You can make your own Perfect Graham Cracker Crust in just minutes, or use a store bought variety.
- You can also use your own ice cream with this super easy Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream recipe. It’s so fun to make with your kids during the summer!
- Try other flavors of ice cream pie by using this same technique! Peach Kool-Aid, strawberry, regular lemonade. Give some a try and see which you like best!
- You can also mix a can of orange juice or pink lemonade concentrate to ice cream for a different summertime treat.
- For a brighter pink color, add a few drops of red food coloring to the mixture.
- Allow the ice cream pie to set in the freezer for about an hour before serving.
- Use a hot knife to cut the pie for picture perfect slices.
More Scrumptious Summertime Desserts
Light, flavorful, delectable ice cream and cold desserts are what we crave during hot summer months. Try a few of these favorite recipes and enjoy quality time with good treats and good friends and family.
- Raspberry Almond Fudge Ice Cream Cake
- White Chocolate Raspberry Fried Ice Cream
- Deceptively Easy Ice Cream Cake
- Fried Ice Cream
- Duke’s Hula Pie Recipe (Copycat)
How to Make Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie
Ingredients
- 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream do not use vanilla bean
- 1 packet pink lemonade Kool-Aid not sugar free
- 1 graham cracker pie crust
- a few drops pink food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Soften the vanilla ice cream, stir in pink lemonade until completely mixed in and dissolved.
- If you want to give it a brighter pink color, stir in a little bit of pink food coloring.
- Pour into graham cracker pie crust.
- Cover and freeze at least an hour before serving.
barbi says
May 17, 2012 at 9:27 amThis pie looks so yummy! I havent stopped thinking about it since I saw it posted yesterday, so I came back and printed it. 🙂
Kimberly says
May 19, 2012 at 1:09 amThank you so much for posting this! My mother made this all the time when I was young, but had lost the recipe (and memory) on how to make this! I can’t wait to share with my kids!
Lauren says
May 19, 2012 at 3:19 pmThis may be a silly question- but do you add in just the kool-aid powder, or make up the kool-aid with the sugar and water, and then add the liquid mix in ?
Erica says
May 19, 2012 at 10:36 pmSorry, could have been more clear on that.. it is JUST the mix!
stephanie says
February 21, 2014 at 4:59 pmis it the kool aide that has sugar or the one you add sugar to?
Emily says
June 8, 2012 at 1:51 pmMade this for our neighborhood cooking club BBQ and it was so delish! It was a hit! Thanks for the new, super easy, go to summer dessert. I want to experiment with other flavors… I think it could have lots of fun options! Love love loved it!
Peggy says
March 25, 2014 at 3:22 pmI am so frustrated now….. I live on tenrife a Canarian Island belonging to Spain in Europe … we have no Kool-Aidand I would have no idea what to replace it with !!! 🙁 I sooooo want to make this xx
Faith says
July 24, 2016 at 7:28 pmFrozen lemonade mix and cool whip instead of ice cream so good.
Carla Owens says
July 24, 2016 at 9:20 pmYou can use any package drink mix like kool aid…there is wylers and other brands.
Julie says
March 25, 2014 at 3:57 pmI’m wondering if I could use frozen yogurt. May have to give it a try.
Christy says
March 26, 2014 at 8:05 pmIt looks yummylicious!! If I may ask, why can’t you use vanilla bean ice cream?
Emily says
March 31, 2014 at 8:56 amyou could, the flavor will be a little different and you will have the dark specs from the vanilla bean
Savers & Preppers says
April 5, 2014 at 6:13 pmI assume since the Kool Aid is not the, sugar free kind, you must be talking about the pre-sweeten (with sugar) Kool Aid packets and not the unsweetened packets?
Emily says
April 6, 2014 at 7:54 pmNo, you definitely want the unsweeted! The vanilla ice cream sweetens it up plenty!
Christine says
July 5, 2015 at 1:42 pmi would love to make this but I’m in the UK what is the lemonade concentrate ? Can I get it here.
Echo says
July 6, 2015 at 9:40 amDo you have Kool-Aid drink packets in the UK? Kool-Aid is a brand that makes inexpensive powder drink mixes that can be found on the juice aisle at our grocery stores. It is also available for purchase on Amazon, here is a link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JDSSNK4?psc=1
Debra says
January 27, 2019 at 1:37 pmcountry timehas a drink mixin a container round box could use a little of that if its available i wonder if you could switch flavers like orange strawberry grape use yr imagination and just try stuffand flavers
Lynn says
June 2, 2018 at 4:58 pmDo you recommend one or two packets of Kool Aid?
Favorite Family Recipes says
June 5, 2018 at 3:14 pmIt really depends on how tart you want it to be. I like using 2 because I like it to be TART. Hope this helps!
Liz Cleland says
June 6, 2019 at 5:10 amMy favorite jelly rancher was pink lemonade so this recipe speaks to me!!
Tanya Schroeder says
June 6, 2019 at 5:50 amThis is the perfect warm weather treat!
Aimee Shugarman says
June 6, 2019 at 6:21 amWhat a fun summer treat!
Jen says
June 6, 2019 at 6:59 amI love the pink color on this pie! So perfect for any gathering all summer long.
Katerina @ diethood .com says
June 6, 2019 at 7:12 amWOW!! Such a fantastic summer treat! I LOVE this!!