Healthy Frozen Dessert! Lemonade Raspberry Ginger Sundae
You’ll love this healthy frozen dessert, made with homemade lemon ice cream, crumbled gluten-free ginger cookies with pecans, and fresh raspberries. It’s a summertime favorite!
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Why You’ll Love This Healthy Frozen Dessert Recipe
Sweet Childhood Memories…
When summer hits, one of my favorite childhood memories is eating a big ol’ slice of my mom’s pink lemonade pie. Her go-to summertime dessert was made with four ingredients: Gingersnaps, melted butter, vanilla ice cream, and one can of frozen pink lemonade.
My recipe is a modern, healthier twist combining tangy homemade lemon ice cream, fiber-rich raspberries, and a light ginger pecan topping. I promise you, it’s just as delicious!
Ingredients
How to make a healthy frozen lemonade raspberry dessert
- Prepare the Ice Cream: If making from scratch, churn your lemon ice cream using almond milk and half-and-half. Alternatively, mix store-bought vanilla ice cream with fresh lemon juice for a quick fix.
- Make the Cookie Crumble: Crush gluten-free ginger cookies and mix with chopped pecans to create the crumble topping.
- Assemble the Dessert: Scoop the lemon ice cream into individual serving bowls, sprinkle generously with the ginger cookie crumble, and top with fresh raspberries.
Find the measurements and full instructions in the recipe card below!
Healthy Frozen Dessert: Lemon Ginger Raspberry Sundae
Ingredients
Lemon Ice Cream
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice , approximately 3 lemons
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Cookie “Crust”
- 1 cup Gluten Free Ginger Cookies, finely ground
- 1 cup pecans or nuts of choice, toasted and finely ground
Lemonade Pie
- Lemonade Ice Cream
- 2 packages fresh raspberries
- Cookie Crust
Instructions
Make the Ice Cream
- Whisk together lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar, and eggs in a saucepan. Whisk in almond milk and half-and-half, and cook the mixture over moderately high heat, whisking constantly, until it just comes to a simmer.
- Strain the custard in to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill until cold. Next, whisk in the remaining almond milk and half-and-half and freeze the mixture in your ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
Make the Cookie Crust
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Put pecans on baking sheet and toast for approximately 5 minutes. Meanwhile, grind cookies in a food processor until finely ground. Remove to a mixing bowl. Next, process toasted pecans until finely ground, and add to cookie crumbs. Stir together with a fork until well mixed.
Assemble the Lemonade Pie
- Use small dessert bowls, custard cups, or ramekins to assemble the dessert. Place 1/8 cup of cookie/nut mixture at the bottom of each bowl. Top with one {or more!} scoops of lemon ice cream , another 1/8 cup of cookie/nut mixture and fresh raspberries.
Notes
Time Saving Tip!
Don’t have time to make the ice cream? Buy pre-made lemon ice cream or buy vanilla ice cream and blend it with lemon juice. It will be delicious too!Nutrition
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I simply love recipes which are tasty and inexpensive. I look forward to preparing this easy pie!
This is SO awesome looking & sounding. When I was growing up, there was a similar pie that became so popular… I think it used frozen lemonade, a carton of lemon yogurt, and maybe some cool-whip? (which I thought was awesome back then… and now I’m like “cool whip”????)
Great job on this one!
Simply beautiful and I loved reading your personal connection to this pie. Can’t wait to replace this recipe with the one I usually use that calls for lemonade powder mix.
Mmmmm, this looks good! I LOVE the photos – especially the lemon slice smiley face. 🙂
EA, this looks sooo good + i love that it’s a healthier spin on most versions of it. yum!
Thanks so much everyone for all your comments. I love reading all of them!!!
Thanks so much Liz! I use a Canon 60D that I got for a present last Christmas. Great camera, although I still have so much to learn about it. I treated myself to a 50 mm f1.4 lens which I love. Hope you get to make this when your kids are back in school! 🙂
This just screams summer to me…what a great light and refreshing dessert! Love the combo of the lemonade with the gingersnap crust.
Each one of your photos made me smile 🙂 this is a fabulous dessert, love all the elements you put together in this recipe.
oh this is fun and love the pictures 🙂
Lemon, ginger this is my kind of dessert. Am I craving that ice cream or my kids going back to school? Not sure which sounds better 🙂
Great idea! My kids would love this
I absolutely *have* to try this!! I adore anything lemon 🙂
And for the record, your photos are amazing!
I’m so glad to hear that you liked my idea of almond milk an half and half! That’s always the combination that I use when I make ice cream. Your recipe sounds amazing, and I LOVE that you used Marys Gone Crackers for the “crust”. Brilliant idea.
This looks so good. I love lemon and lemonade. Lemon desserts are always so nice, light and refreshing. What a great recipe. When we get our stuff and I can set up the kitchen in our new place this will be on my list of to do’s.
This looks beautiful! I was just saying how much I loved frozen lemonade pie from when I was younger. Your deconstructed version looks great, love the addition of raspberries!
yum, EA! man i wish we could trade our treats… love lemon and raspberry. and gingersnap. perfect.
Great pics! Such a summery treat.
Wow, this looks incredible! I am going to have to make this!
Your pictures are so beautiful! 🙂
Yum! That looks so good! Love the pics too!
Your photos are beautiful – very creative. I love to read about family food memories. I have so many favorite desserts from childhood – it’s hard to pick just one. Most of them are recipes handed down through several generations – sugar cookies with caramel pecan frosting, peach cobbler, black raspberry pie, anise schnitte…the list goes on and on.
Nice to connect through Recipe Redux!
The lemonade pies look wonderful! And I love all the photos! Such a beautiful post!
Oh my. Definitely making this. All my favorite flavors wrapped up in one delicious package.
oh wow, i LOVE the frozen raspberry lemonade! i’m such an advocate of healthified food! i really should consider this recipe redux group…
This looks so refreshing and delicious! Now to go check out the other sites!