Name: No Bake Lemon Icebox Pie
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1 crumb crust; 3/4 cup lemon juice; 2 cans Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; 1 teaspoon lemon zest

This easy no bake lemon icebox pie is tangy and creamy. You can serve it frozen or just chilled -- and best of all you can make several and keep them in the freezer for when you need a quick dessert.Easy, beginner recipe.

Total time 5 minutes

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Original Eagle Brand Lemon icebox pie recipe with just 3 ingredients is an easy dessert that is perfect for summer. A thick layer of puckery lemon filling is poured into a no bake crumb crust and chilled or frozen until ready to serve. Best of all - it tastes just like you remember it.

Slice of lemon icebox pie on a blue plate

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Crust variations
Key lime pie variation
Please use Eagle Brand
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This is a simple pie that goes together fast. You can keep all of the ingredients on hand without any problem. Nothing crazy here!

Crumb Crust of your choice
Lemon juice can be fresh squeezed or whatever you usually use (use lime juice for key lime pie)
Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk or your favorite
Vanilla
Lemon zest

Instructions

This pie is so simple! It's a great recipe to start with when your kids want to learn to make things in the kitchen. Most 10 year olds can do this without help.

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Add the sweetened condensed milk to a bowl.
Make sure it's NOT evaporated milk.
Mix in the vanilla until smooth.
Add the lemon juice and lemon zest.
Stir until it begins to thicken.
Pour into the prepared pie crust.
Chill for 4 hours or freeze overnight.
If frozen allow to stand at room temperature for 20 minutes before serving.

Storage

Keep this pie in the refrigerator, tightly covered, for up to 5 days or freeze for up to 3 months.

One of the things that I like best about this lemon pie is that you can serve it chilled or frozen. I personally like it better frozen.

I take it out about 20 minutes before I want to serve it... less if it is a very hot day. I thaw it just until it softens a little but still has the consistency of ice cream.

Lemon icebox pie is tangy and icy that way -- a fact that makes it very refreshing on one of our hot Texas days. When just chilled it has a creamier, softer consistency and that's good, too.

So, when you make it double or triple the recipe to make a couple of them and freeze for unexpected company or a sudden dessert craving. Covered tightly it will last 3 months or so.

Crust variations

I used a combination of 'Nilla wafers and pretzels in the crust for this pie.

Another good crumb mixture for the crust is to use lemon sandwich cookies and gingersnaps in a ratio of about 3:1. It enhances the lemon flavor.

Key lime pie variation

Here's something cool, too. You can substitute the lemon juice with key lime and have a no bake lime icebox pie. I have been wanting to experiment with other citrus but I haven't yet.

Really, any citrus juice should work. Let me know if you try something besides lemon or lime.

Please use Eagle Brand

Lemon icebox pie has been served on countless tables and caused countless families to smile at dinner time.

It's Southern recipe that's been around close to 100 years. I have tweaked it a TINY bit by adding vanilla. I think it calms the tartness of the lemon down a little, soothes it, and makes it more enticing. Feel free to leave it out.

Y'all know that I am not real freaky about brand names except there are some that I feel are higher in quality and produce a better finished product.

You can get the Eagle Brand or you can use what you like best but if you get an off brand of sweetened condensed milk I will not guarantee the recipe. I like Eagle Brand.

It's been around forever and the results are always good. They didn't sponsor the post or pay me... I just like the product that they create. End of sermon.

Garnish

You can serve it with a dollop of whipped cream if you like. I usually serve it plain because I think the whipped cream is just too much richness.

I prefer mine either plain or with a fresh raspberry or blueberry coulis. Just whirr the fruit in the blender with a little sugar to taste and drizzle it over the pie.

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S'Mores Pie is a no bake pie that tastes like your favorite campfire treat!.
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Strawberry Lemonade Freezer Pie from the Cookie Rookie looks like it would fit in my fridge just fine this summer - what do you think?

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This pie just couldn't be easier! This is a great one to take to a potluck or summer picnic and I love to show it off in a pretty pie plate in my favorite color!

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Summer in Texas is hot -- but we still have to deal with the rampant Southern sweet tooth gene. No bake pies are the answer no matter what the question is.

I'll admit a preference for no bake chocolate pies like this chocolate overload pie or this no bake s'mores pie. Still if you had this lemon pie and those two chocolate pies on a table and told me I could only have one there might be some tears.

OK. A lot of tears.

I honestly can't imagine a summer without copious amounts of this pie to cool things off. It's been popular for generations for a good reason! Definitely give it a try and see if it doesn't take you right back to those endless summers when you were 10.

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