Lemon Icebox Pie Recipe (No-bake)
This Lemon Icebox Pie recipe is for lemon lovers and hot summer days when you don't want to bake. This no-bake pie has a bright citrus filling in a wafer crust and is topped with mounds of sweet whipped cream. With less than 10 ingredients, it's the ideal make-ahead summer dessert with minimal assembly time.
Servings: 8 to 10 people
Calories: 437kcal
Ingredients
- 1½ cups vanilla wafer cookie crumbs about 50 cookies
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- ¾ cup frozen lemonade concentrate thawed, but cold
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup water (DIVIDED)
- 1 envelope Knox gelatin (almost 2¼ teaspoons)
- 1⅔ cups heavy cream (DIVIDED)
- yellow food coloring (4 to 5 drops liquid color)
- 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a food processor blend cookie crumbs with the 5 tablespoons butter. Evenly press into a 9-or 10-inch pie plate and chill or freeze while preparing the filling.
- In a medium bowl sprinkle gelatin over ½ cup of the room-temperature water. Let the gelatin bloom (or soften), so there are no dry bits visible. Boil the remaining ½ cup water in the microwave or on the stovetop and stir into gelatin mixture. Stir until gelatin is dissolved.
- Stir in cold lemonade concentrate, sugar, and food coloring. Stir until sugar is dissolved and then refrigerate until mixture is the consistency of loose jelly, about 2 hours. Mixture will jiggle like just-setting jell-o.
- In a separate bowl whip 1 cup heavy cream to firm peaks; set aside. Whip barely-set lemonade gelatin until frothy, about 1 minute on high speed. Add whipped cream and mix just to combine.
- Pour filling into chilled crust and chill until set, 4 hours or more.
- To serve, whip remaining ⅔ cup cream with confectioners' sugar to soft peaks. Top pie with whipped cream and garnish with extra cookie crumbs or lemon zest. Serve immediately.
Notes
Your cookie crust will have been chilling in the fridge or freezer while your jell-o sets, so it's ready for the filling. That crust isn't baked, so it's pretty fragile.
It's not your typical sturdy, cookie pie crust. But that's one of my favorite parts of this no-bake lemon icebox pie — it is completely reminiscent of its origin dessert, Lemon Fluff.
Recipe has been re-tested and improved (June 2020)
Nutrition
Calories: 437kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 87mg | Sodium: 108mg | Potassium: 70mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 951IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 36mg
