When warm weather arrives, I admit that I’m a sucker for a good margarita. There’s nothing better on a warm spring night than sitting outside at our favorite Mexican restaurant with good friends, a pitcher of margaritas, and a big basket of chips and salsa. Truth be told, when the pitcher and the basket are empty, I’m usually too full for dinner.
This week I received a complimentary copy of Southern Living’s newest cookbook, Scooped: Ice Cream Treat, Cheats, and Frozen Eats. The first recipe that jumped out at me was a Margarita Pie, made with a pretzel crust, vanilla ice cream, limeade, tequila, orange liqueur, and topped with whipped cream. The recipe was so simple, yet so enticing that I just had to make it for today’s post!
When I first heard about the cookbook, I assumed that it would contain recipes for making various flavors of ice cream. Instead, I found that the vast majority of recipes use pre-made ice cream. The press release states, “the cookbook has tons of ice-cold treats for your sweet tooth and is full of easy-to-follow recipes for indulgent ice cream desserts without all the fuss.”
The chapters include ice cream treats for parties, small ice cream bites, sundaes, cakes, and shakes. The recipes vary from German Chocolate Ice Cream Cupcakes to Peanut Brittle-Butterscotch Sundaes to Tiramisu Ice Cream Cake. As I perused the book, the gorgeous photography seemed to represent very complex recipes, but after reviewing the ingredients and instructions most recipes are relatively easy. The recipe for this post took hands-on time of less than 30 minutes.
Although many recipes call for pre-made ice cream, there is a chapter in the book for making your own. Recipes for Banana-Coconut Ice Cream, Caramelized Fig Ice Cream and Peach and Toasted Pecan Ice Cream, along with many other imaginative variations fill this section of the book. Finally, the Extras chapter contains recipes for delectable toppings for ice cream, including Bacon-Praline Crumble, Balsamic Strawberries, Peanut Butter-Hot Chocolate Sauce, and Salted Bourbon-Spiked Toffee Sauce.
Two lucky readers will receive a copy of this beautiful cookbook. Leave a comment describing your favorite ice cream treat before 11:59 p.m. on May 1 for a chance to win the giveaway. The winners will be chosen randomly on May 2.
Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner, so make this delicious pie part of your celebration.
Ingredients
4 cups pretzel twists
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 tablespoons sugar
4 cups vanilla ice cream, softened
1/2 cup frozen limeade concentrate, softened
2 tablespoons tequila
1 tablespoon orange liqueur
1/2 teaspoon lime zest
1 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons sugar
Lime slices (for garnish)
Coarse sea salt (for garnish)
Chopped pretzels (for garnish)
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Process all ingredients in a food processor until pretzels are finely ground. Firmly press mixture onto bottom of a lightly greased pie pan or 10 inch springform pan.
2. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
1. Stir together vanilla ice cream, limeade concentrate, tequila, orange liqueur, and lime zest in a medium bowl until blended. Spoon into pretzel crust, spreading evenly. Cover and freeze 6 hours or until firm.
2. Let stand a room temperature for 10 minutes before serving.
3. Meanwhile, beat whipping cream at high speed with an electric mixer until foamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Dollop or pipe whipped cream onto pie. Garnish with lime slices, sea salt, and chopped pretzels.
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Hello! I know I am late to this post, but what did you think of the pie? I am considering making it for my husband’s birthday because he is a lime fanatic.
I bought this book a couple weeks ago and made the Salted Bourbon-Spiked Toffee Sauce for a party last weekend. It was a huge hit and the tiny bit that was left over was gone within a couple days. It was sublime on French toast. ๐
Hi Kari, thanks for visiting SBD. I loved this pie! We ate way too much of it! ๐
Thanks! I am pretty sure he would like anything with lime, but it’s nice to have a review.
I’ve been poking through your site and really enjoying it, although it is making me awfully hungry. ๐
This sounds and looks absolutely amazing! Love the pretzel crust
What a great dessert for Cinco de Mayo!! I love it and that pretzel crust sounds extra special. Sorry I missed the deadline on the cookbook giveaway. Looks like a fun cookbook!
Fantastic looking pie! Perfect for our warm weather in Southern California. Looking forward to meeting you at Camp Blog Away.
Thanks for sharing your recipe. I would love to try this out after I deliver in another 4 months. In the meantime, here’s what I love to binge on when I have a craving these days – ice cream sandwiched between ritz crackers. I like to drizzle the ritz cracker with melted chocolate and stuff it with any flavored ice-cream that’s in the freezer. It is a perfect two bite, sweet & salty dessert – worth a try!!
Bill! This looks insanely good! I love me a good margarita and now I can combine it with dessert?!?! Brilliant!
My favourite ice cream treat is home-assembled ice cream sandwiches. You take vanilla ice cream (or whatever you’d like), line the bottom of a tupperwear container with one layer of graham crackers, put the ice cream on top of it, then top it off with another layer of graham crackers. Pop it in the freezer and you’ve got a whole box of ice cream sandwiches ready to go. It sounds simple, but its also the best ice cream sandwiches I’ve ever had.
The pretzel crust and the ice cream/lime filling sound like they would balance each other off so well! What a gorgeous, gorgeous dessert! And thanks for this giveaway!
With my unconditional love of chocolate and peanut butter – I would adore any ice cream/fro yo dessert with reeses or any other combination of the two!
Hope your week is off to a good start Bill
I’m a sucker for fresh fruit w/ ice cream and a sprinkling of granola on top.
I am a sucker for any citrus Ice cream pie dessert…and, love my creation of brownie banana split ice cream cake…good old fashion frozen fruit bars are refreshing and tasty too!
The recipe for German chocolate ice cream cupcake sounds devine…hope to see it posted one day…thanks…well, or better if I get lucky… ๐
For years I have been making an ice cream pie for every birthday that rolls around. They all think it is a special treat and in reality its just good quality vanilla ice cream with peanut butter mixed in poured into a store bought crust.
I think that I am allergic to this. If I eat more than one little slice, I will break out in FAT. LOL RR
What a fun book! Love the Margarita Ice Cream Pie. But I’m a sucker for margaritas, too (although with the current price of limes I could go bankrupt buying them!).
I am sooooo making this pie – no really, I am soooo making this pie! Beautiful!
My new Fave Ice Cream is soft serve with a shot of bourbon! Soft serve is making a comeback and it’s going high end – serving in shot glasses at my daughters backyard engagement party. I love boozy desserts!
My favorite ice cream treat was my grandmother’s homemade banana ice cream. My cousins and I used to take turns cranking the handle on the old machine, then she got an electric! There was nothing better in the summer than the sound of that machine!
I make a Biscoff Ice Cream Pie in the summer! It’s my favorite ice cream treat!
Wowza! This is speaking to all kinds of cravings I’m having now, particularly sweets and margaritas! Only one craving I can indulge right now, but after this baby comes, I want a slice of pie and a tall margarita together!
Wow. Wow. Wow. Looks delicious. I can’t wait to try it
I would love to have a copy of this cookbook….I love to cook and bake and I love icecream
My favorite ice cream treat has to be the chocolate ice cream parfait from a restaurant in HK called Pokka Cafe. It was my favorite dessert to eat when I was younger. The parfait has chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, chocoalte sauce and corn flake. Nommm… I wish I can have some now! Thanks for doing a ice cream cookbook giveaway.
I love the frozen ice cream roll! It was my childhood memory of the summertime! But I think this margarita pie will do just fine!!!
Delightful looking; after reading the ingredients, I’ m certain it will taste the same!
Lovely! This makes me hopeful that summer may actually arrive some day. ๐
I love margaritas. I read the recipe and it looks easy to make. I’m gonna try it, whether I win the book or not. Thanks for sharing.