Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

Peanut Butter Pie - Whip up this luscious, velvety smooth peanut butter pie in just 20 minutes. This southern inspired dessert takes only 7 ingredients and will be a hit everywhere you serve it.

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• Ingredients
• Substitutions
• Instructions
• Tips for making peanut butter pie
• Storage
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When I drove 2000 miles to Florida from Canada to see my parents for Christmas I stopped on the way back at a restaurant in Social Circle, Georgia, called the Blue Willow Inn.

This is a beautiful place with amazing desserts, and if you find yourself in the area, go for dinner. The peach cobbler and the peanut butter pie were my favorites.  

As soon as I got back home, I had to create this silky smooth peanut butter pie to bring back the memories.

This easy freezer pie only take 7 ingredients (and you can skip the vanilla extract if you want to), and it's also so easy to put together.

If you want to try other flavors with the same style of filling, try this Blueberry Cheesecake Bar recipe, or this Orange Creamsicle Bar recipe.

Ingredients

About the ingredients for this recipe. Exact amounts are in the recipe card.

• peanut butter: I use creamy smooth peanut butter. Try crunchy peanut butter if you want chopped peanuts throughout the filling.
• whipping cream: This gives all the light volume to this pie, making the filling as light as a cloud.
• brown sugar: to sweeten it.
• cream cheese: make sure this is at room temperature. If it's not it won't mix up completely smooth, if you'll have small flecks throughout.
• cookie crumbs - I blitzed up chocolate cookies for this crust.
• butter: unsalted butter. This helps make the crust.

Substitutions

• cookie crumbs: you can use chocolate cookies, oreo cookies, or graham crackers crumbs for this pie.

Instructions

Make the simple 2-ingredient cookie crumb crust first.

Step 1. Mix the cookie crumbs and melted butter in a small mixing bowl. The texture should be somewhat like wet sand but it shouldn't be too moist with butter.

Spread the mixture in the bottom of a pie pan and bake the crust for ten minutes. Let that cool completely and make the filling.

Step 2. Whip the heavy cream to stiff peaks, gradually adding the brown sugar and vanilla. Let this mix chill in the fridge while you wait for the crust to cool.

Step 3. Whip the peanut butter and cream cheese in a large bowl. Mix until very smooth.

Step 4. Fold in the cold whipped cream with the peanut and cream cheese mixture. Do this gently so you don't take any air out of the whipped cream.

Scoop the filling into the pie pan, on top of the cooled crust.

Garnish with the chopped peanuts if you like.

Step 5. Freeze the pie for a few hours before serving.

To serve:

Let the pie sit out on the counter for about 10 minutes before cutting and serving.

Optionally, you can drizzle with chocolate syrup and add some extra peanuts on top when serving, for a little extra touch.

Tips for making peanut butter pie

• Make sure the cream cheese is at room temperature so you don't get little solid flecks of cream cheese in the mixture.
• Let the pie sit at room temperature for 10 minutes so that the pie is easier to cut.

Storage

Store the pie in the freezer, in an airtight container or in the pie plate tightly covered with plastic wrap.

Recipe

This post was originally posted on January 31, 2016.