Strawberry Pistachio Ice Box Pie

You'll be a crowd pleaser with this easy, creamy and delicious icebox pie. Beautiful ruby strawberries and creamy emerald green pistachio butter, all mingled together with a fluffy cream cheese filling and housed in a graham cracker crust.  Wait, there's more!  It's also dairy free!

I know.  I couldn't wait to tell you that part.  Yes, totally dairy free, but you can also make it with the regular dairy things if you want. That's what I call an adaptable pie.

SHE'S A CUTIE PIE □

The ingredient list on this pie is a short one. Short ingredient lists tend to be my MO. I use my favorite whipped topping which happens to be made from coconut and has no hydrogenated oils. I also use plant-based cream cheese, but you if you'd like.

Blending in some strawberries makes the filling a beautiful light pink color, which is then enhanced with an artistic swirl of pistachio butter over the top of the pie.  It's a beautiful color contrast.  Chopped pistachios and more strawberries adorn the pie, making it a cutie pie.  Get it?  Cutie pie?

Why, the term icebox pie? Many years ago before people had refrigerators, they had a box where they kept things that needed to be chilled and purchased ice when it was available from the ice man. Yes, the iceman was a thing. A pie like this would have been kept in the icebox, hence, the moniker icebox pie came to be a thing.

I'll actually keep this pie in my freezer. First to set it quickly, then to store any remaining pie, as if there would be some, until I'm ready to have another piece.

Give this pie a try (I like to rhyme). You can find the pistachio butter via my link here, which is a not so common ingredient, but definitely addictively delicious.   If you simply don't want to purchase pistachio butter, give some almond, pecan or cashew butter a whirl.  It won't have the same flavor or beautiful color, but will work in a pinch.

You'll thank me for turning you on to this creamy pistachio butter.  So good!

You'll be so glad you have a hand mixer to whip up things like this delicious pie.

Strawberry Pistachio Ice Box Pie



I 8 ounce container Plant based cream cheese, plain at room temperature (Like Kite Hill)
1 cup strawberries, quartered
1 9 ounce container CocoWhip, thawed (or whipped topping of your choice)
1 pre-prepared graham cracker crust (also Gluten Free version available)
1/4 cup pistachio butter (like Campo D'Oro)
2 tablespoons chopped pistachios


In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy with a hand mixer


Add in the strawberries and beat to combine and also mince up strawberries a bit finer.  The cream cheese will become a lovely pink hue.


Add the CocoWhip and fold until well combined.


Pour into graham crust.


Dollop streams of pistachio butter over the top an use a fine tip of a knife or other utensil or toothpick to artfully swirl into the pink fluff,  Get creative.  This is so pretty.


Sprinkle the chopped pistachios around the outer edge of the pie then adorn with a few slices of strawberry if you like.


Freeze until set.  In a very col freezer, this should be firm enough to slice after about an hour.  Otherwise you can freeze completely, then let sit out about an hour before serving to slightly soften.