On my last trip to Hawaii, my family and I went to Kona and ate at Big Island Grill. The food was delicious, but what I loved the most was the “Kona Pie”. Kona Pie is rich creamy mocha almond fudge ice cream piled high on an Oreo cookie crust, topped with fresh homemade whipped cream, hot fudge, and macadamia nuts! Yum! We went back several times to this restaurant just for the Kona Pie! Since I have been home, my husband and I have had cravings for Kona Pie many times. I knew this would have to be my next dessert for my blog. Since there is no recipe from the Big Island Grill, I made my own. It is super easy with only 3 ingredients! I hope you like it as much as I do!
To start, get 2 packages of Oreo cookies and put them in the food processor. This will make the cookies the perfect texture for the crust. Put the cookies into a bowl and add 2 sticks of melted butter. Mix it all together and spread out over the bottom and sides of a 9 inch springform pan. Put it into the freezer and freeze for several hours.
Take one gallon of mocha almond fudge ice cream and let it melt slightly enough to mix. Mix it all up and put it on top of the cookie crust. Make sure you press all of the ice cream down so there are no air pockets. Put it back in the freezer and freeze over night.
Next, whip up some whip cream and cover the top of the pie. When you are ready to serve, you can pour fudge and sprinkle macadamia nuts over the entire pie, or individual slices.
Ingredients
- 2 packages of Oreo cookies
- 2 cubes of butter
- 1 gallon mocha almond fudge ice cream
- whip cream
- fudge
- macadamia nuts
Instructions
- blend cookies in the food processor
- add cookies and melted butter into a bowl
- mix until all butter is incorporated
- press onto 9 inch springform pan
- freeze for several hours
- mix ice cream in bowl
- scoop into crust and press down with spoon
- freeze over night
- top with whip cream, fudge, and macadamia nuts
Enjoy!
More Hawaiian desserts you might like!
Hawaiian Paradise Cake
Old Fashioned Custard Pie
Pink Hibiscus cake
This Orange Creamsicle Ice Cream Layer Cake is 6 layers of delicious orange and vanilla flavors! It begins with a layer of vanilla-orange poke cake. Next is a layer of homemade vanilla ice cream. After that is a layer of orange ice cream. Another layer of orange poke cake, then a layer of vanilla bean ice cream, and the top layer is orange sherbet. It is frosted with homemade orange whipping cream and fresh oranges. So yummy!
This is the second Orange Creamsicle cake I have made on my blog. The first was so good, that I thought I would try it with ice cream as the filling. You can check out my original cake here. I got my inspiration for my ice cream cake here.
Ingredients
- white cake mix
- 3 oz box of jello
- 1/2 gallon vanilla bean ice cream
- 1/2 gallon orange sherbet ice cream
- (there will be a lot left over, you can also substitute this for the homemade ice cream)
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 3 tsp powdered sugar
Instructions
- bake two six inch white cakes, follow instructions on box. Let cake cool completely and take out of pans. place on wax paper after completely cooled.
- Make 3 oz of jello. poke cake with fork all over and pour jello evenly over both cakes. Wrap in plastic wrap and freeze cakes.
- keep bowl in refridgerator until ready to use
- pour ingredients in bowl and whip on medium for 5 minutes or until firm peaks form.
- torte cakes to 2 inch layers. Place saran wrap in bottom of two 6 inch cake pans and let sides hang over. put cake on bottom of each cake pan. spread vanilla ice cream , then spread orange ice cream. put in freezer over night. The next day, take the two layers out of the pans, place them on a cake board, and put one layer on top of the other. Move quickly to avoid melting. Take your whip cream and spread all over the cake and frost it. I found this to be really tricky! Put back in freezer till hardens. Then pipe whip cream stars on top with orange slices. Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Here is another Orange Dreamsicle Cake you might enjoy!
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