You don't see lemon paired with coconut often, nor do you see a simple, elegant cake assembled so easily with crushed shortbread cookies and ice cream.

And here's the best part: the shortbread can be substituted with your favorite sugar cookie, ginger cookie, or lemon cookie.

If you do substitute, choose a cookie at least 2 inches in size, so it will line and fill the border of your springform pan.

A note about springform pans: these are amazing pans to have in your cooking arsenal, and relatively cheap to purchase. You can customize amazing ice cream cakes of any flavor with a springform pan....