Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

If you love awesome southern desserts, you’ll want to dive into peanut butter pie. It’s easy, it’s creamy, and it’s awesome on a hot Arizona summer day. The frozen pie cools your entire body while satisfying your sweet tooth. Peanut butter, whipped cream, and chocolate icing mix together in a wonderful treat whether you’re going to a bake sale or a family gathering. I love fluffy pies, especially chocolate or peanut butter pies and this pie is perfectly peaked with fluffiness. It’s like eating an airy Reese’s peanut butter cup. Who doesn’t want to enjoy that when the sun is beating down and you’re sweating to death?

Even if you’re not that familiar with pie making, this pie will be simple. It’s not nearly as complicated at a traditional fruit pie where you have to mix the filling and create the dough. This recipe uses a great pre-made graham cracker crust that adds crunch and buttery deliciousness. The filling also only needs to be mixed slightly with a mixer and combined. And it includes homemade whipped cream! As long as you don’t whip the cream into a curdle, this recipe should be sweet and a perfect marriage of peanut butter and chocolate. It also takes essentially no time to make. The freezer does all the work of helping the pie reach its peak of taste. If after this pie, you’re feeling particularly savvy about your baking abilities,  you may want to try making the Maple Pecan Pie for another dazzler in your mouth.

Peanut Butter Pie

2014-04-04 00:41:10

Yields 8

A quick and easy peanut butter pie recipe.

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Prep Time

10 min

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 10 min

Prep Time

10 min

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

1. ¼ cup milk
2. ½ cup chocolate chips
3. 1, 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
4. ½ cup creamy peanut butter
5. 1 cup powdered sugar
6. 1 TS (Teaspoon) cinnamon
7. 1 cup heavy cream
8. 1 TS vanilla extract
9. 1, 9-inch pre-made graham cracker crust
10. ¼ cup peanuts roughly chopped (You can choose between salted and unsalted based on your preference. I like unsalted because it lets the sugary pie shine.)

Instructions

1. In a small saucepan, warm the milk over low heat
2. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted completely
3. Let mixture cool while you make the rest of the pie, mixture should thicken but still be pourable
4. Beat together the cream cheese, peanut butter, cinnamon, and powdered sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high
5. In another large bowl, beat together the heavy cream and vanilla until the soft peaks of whipped cream have formed
6. Add 1/3 of the whipped cream to the peanut butter mixture and mix until fully combined
7. Fold in remaining 2/3 of whipped cream into peanut butter mixture until fully combined
8. Pour the whipped cream/peanut butter mixture into the graham cracker crust
9. Pour the melted chocolate mixture over the entire pie and add the chopped peanuts for decoration
10. Put the pie in the freezer for 1 hour to allow it to set properly
11. Try contain yourself for the next hour while the pie sets, then dive in whole-hog and enjoy!

By Mandy

So Good Blog http://www.sogoodblog.com/

Summary

Recipe Name

Fast & Easy Peanut Butter Pie

Published On

2014-03-30

Preparation Time

10M

Cook Time

1H

Total Time

1H10M

Average Rating

5 Based on 1 Review(s)