What kind of birthday gift do you get for the friend who puts you up to a pretty big challenge? Like telling you to take a gelato recipe and turn it into another kind of dessert, something made with crushed cookies and a chocolate drizzle! No, we’re not talking about a homemade cone served up with two scoops of ice cream… we’re talking about a homemade Ginger Ice Cream Pie.

It’s the ultimate birthday present for that friend who also happens to be a pie aficionado. Charmian’s Ginger Ice Cream Pie has everything you’d expect to find in an ice cream dessert, and more. Fresh ginger and crystallized ginger both show up in the homemade ice cream that sits on top of a spicy brown sugar ginger cookie crust. And ice cream isn’t complete without a drizzle of chocolate syrup, or a semi-sweet chocolate drizzle in Charmian’s case.

There are ice cream sandwiches, ice cream cakes, but the first ice cream pie we came across was on Charmian’s blog, Christie’s Corner. If you want to see a few more photos of a pie you’ll actually want to eat right out of the freezer, be sure to drop by and say hello to Charmian. If there’s a dessert out there you’d like to see transformed into some sort of pie, she’s the one to contact :)!