I'm making key lime meringue cake and would like to serve homemade ice cream with it. Thoughts on a good ice cream flavor to compliment the

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added about 1 year ago

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Coconut or mango would be nice.

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Thanks for your suggestion. I found a coconut ice cream recipe on food network's website and it was a huge hit!

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bigpan added about 1 year ago

Vanilla will go with any flavor.

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beyondcelery added about 1 year ago

How about rum?

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susan g added about 1 year ago

I keep thinking "Chocolate." You'd want a balance so it wouldn't overpower the lime.

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It may be a lot of lime, but Merrill's lime ice cream is really good. I made it at least 3 times last summer.

http://www.food52.com/recipes...

Really good and refreshing.

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Shuna is a pastry chef in New York City and author of the acclaimed blog Eggbeater.

added about 1 year ago

Ginger, Cardamon, Caraway, Coconut infused with tropical herbs such as lemongrass &/or kaffir lime &/or coriander etc. Also, considering the "heft" of a curd based pie you may want to consider sherbert: it's just juice & dairy with sugar to taste...so you could do lemon or lime with cream or buttermilk-- then you would have a refreshing frozen concoction with your pie. If you wanted to make a ginger-lime sherbert you could make a ginger simple syrup and sweeten with a flavored sugar. I also like to infuse sugar with lime zest by "spinning" both in the food processor for a minute or two, (but I pass it through a fine meshed sieve). Have as much fun as you want!

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biggreencookbook added 12 months ago

Black Cherry. Result could be like a yummy cherry limeade???

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added 12 months ago

Assuming there's no graham in the cake, graham cracker ice cream. It's like a deconstructed key lime pie. :-)

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I'd echo the coconut and ginger. I was also thinking a vanilla with orange zest might be nice if not too citrusy.

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threefresheggs added 11 months ago

Creme Fraiche!!

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