Strawberry Ice Cream Pie w' Lemon Biscotti Crust and Marshmallow topping

Summer, I'm coming for you! Time for romantic walks on warm nights and ice cream pie. This Strawberry ice cream creation is a good way to kick off the season.

Ingredients:

-crust-

7 lemon biscotti 

1/8 cup sugar

1 tsp lemon zest

3 Tbs unsalted butter (melted)

-Marshmallow frosting-

1 1/4 cups sugar 

1/3 cup water

3 large egg whites

1/4 tsp cream of tartar

1 tsp banilla extract 

1/4 tsp almond extract (optional)

28 - 32 ounces strawberry ice cream (I used Häagen-Dazs which comes in 28 ounce containers)

8-10 sliced strawberries

Directions:

preheat oven to 350

1) In the bowl of a food processor combine biscotti, sugar and zest....pulse until the mixture is a fine crumb. If you don't have a food processor just crush the cookies in a ziplock bag and then stir in the other ingredients. 

2) To the biscotti mixture add the melted butter, stirring until all combined. Press the crumb into a 8 inch springform pan, making sure the crust comes about an inch up the sides of the pan. Place on the middle rack of the oven and bake for 10 min or until the crusts start to get golden along the edges. Cool completely.

3) While the crust is baking take the ice cream out of the freezer and let it soften a bit. Spread softened ice cream into cooled crust...cover with plastic wrap and place it back into the freezer for at least an hour. 

4) To make the frosting; put the sugar, water, egg whites, and cream of tartar into a heatproof bowl or the top of a double boiler with at least a 2-quart capacity and beat with a handheld electric mixer on high speed until white and foamy. 

5) Put the bowl over, but not touching, a saucepan of barely simmering water (or bottom of the double boiler). Beat on high speed until the frosting forms a soft peak that stands straight up if you stop the beaters and lift them up, about 7 - 10 minutes. Remove the bowl of frosting from the water and add the vanilla and almond extracts, and continue beating for 2 minutes. 

6) Take the pie out of the freezer.. while still in the pan place the strawberries around the edge overlapping them in a wreath like fashion.  Carefully remove the sides of the pan. Dollop the frosting in the center of the wreath of strawberries. (make sure the frosting isn't warm at all before you place it on your ice cream) There will be left over frosting.

7) If you have a torch then toast your marshmallow frosting, if you don't, just enjoy! Or you can put it all back in the freezer and serve it later.