strawberry ice cream pie

[wretched_snail]

One of my clients made a pie of lemon curd and vanilla ice cream layered in a chocolate crumb crust. I wanted to make a similar pie and take it to my grandparents' house for Easter. Keebler graham cracker crust is still vegan, right (I haven't used it in forever and I know sometimes companies are like, "oh my god- there are no animal ingredients

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[leahcreates]

i like to use frozen raspberries. when they melt, they get soggy/mushy and are really easy to turn into a thick sauce. i'm not sure what sort of texture you're going for, but that might work. :)

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[wretched_snail]

I'm just worried that soggy stuff is going to leak into the ice cream and the crust and everything, and turn the pie into a mushy puddle. Lemon curd has a consistency somewhere between jello and pudding. There's no juice in it. How do you make the berries into a thick sauce? Do you add anything or do you press everything out of the pulp?

[15countsofarson]

Have you tried mashing fresh berries and adding a little cornstarch? Seems like it would work with strawberries.

[wretched_snail]

I don't want to buy fresh berries because it would cost me a fortune. I guess I could just use frozen strawberries without any added sugar or juice and mash them after they thaw out a little bit.

[15countsofarson]

Actually check sales, I know my normal grocery store (Stop & Shop) has strawberry quarts on sale this week for 3 for $5

[dreatastespie]

publix supermarket also has 3 packages strawberries for 5$

whatever you decide to do...
you shoud totally share the recipe :)

[jazzbird]

Do a search for strawberry pie. Many recipes for the filling are just strawberries, corn starch and some form of sweetener (which you could probably omit if unwanted). Seems that's the consistency you're looking for.

[kvaennimue]

search for vegan lemon merengue recipes. Most are unsucessfull but thats because of the merengue but from everything I've read a lot of people are confident in the lemon curd part.

[confusedreality]

I have Orgran No Egg egg replacer that has recipes for lemon pie filling, is that the same? Here is it:
1/4 c No Egg, 6 tbsp warm water, 1c cane/beet/fruit sugar, 1/4 cornstarch, 1 1/4 c hot water, 3 tsp grated lemon rind, 1/4 c lemon juice, 1 tbsp oil, maybe pinch of salt.
Add No Egg slowly to warm water in a mixing bowl and whip with mixer until fluffy. Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt into a pot over high heat. Gradually pour in hot water, lemon rind and juice, stirring constantly. Place 3 tbsp of the mixture from pot into mixing bowl with No Eggand beat until fluffy. Pour this mixture into pot and mix well. Add oil and continue stirring over high heat until smooth and thick. Cool 5 minutes. Pour into a baked pie shell and cool throughly. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.

I hope this is what you needed!

[confusedreality]

And I just re-read you post and saw you are actually NOT asking for the lemon curd, but trying to replace that. Duh!
You could make a berry pie filling using above recipe though... :)

[kvaennimue]

the OP is asking how to replace it only because the OP assumes there is no way to make lemon curd w/o egg

[wretched_snail]

well I also thought berries would go better with a graham crust.