New Recipes! New Tradition??

A couple of weeks ago, my recipe box accidentally fell on the floor and all the recipes inside of it went flying!! Huge mess. I picked everything up and dumped it into a folder until I could rally to put it all back together again.

I noticed that there were a lot of recipes that I had cut out of magazines, but had never tried. So... I decided right then to start a new tradition with the kids.

I put all of the never-tried-recipes in to a box. I explained to the kids that every once in awhile I would let one of them pull out a recipe (without looking) and we would try it sometime that week.

Sydney selected the first recipe card. It was for Lemonade Ice Cream Pie! It was so easy to make and so yummy! Strangely, everyone loved it, except for Sydney.

Lemonade Ice Cream Pie

1 12oz frozen concentrate lemonade, thawed

1 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream, softened

1 16 oz tub of cool whip, softened

2 graham cracker pie crusts



Freeze graham cracker pie crusts for at least 30 minutes prior to filling. Mix lemonade, ice cream and cool whip in large bowl until well mixed. Fill the two pie shells and freeze for at least 4 hours prior to serving.

Garnish with lemon wedges and mint, if desired!

Our notes: we bought Keebler graham cracker pie shells and they were perfect. We used regular lemonade, but next time we will try pink lemonade. We reserved about 1 1/2 cups of the cool whip to put on top of the frozen pies. It was an easy, refreshing dessert!