Okay, I retract the last part. Eeewww. This pie, though. Mmmm!
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| Peanut Butter Pie |
This is one of the simplest pies you can make. It gets rave reviews every single time I make it and people ask for it for their birthdays in place of cake! That's pretty good, right?
The key to the pie is to have your ingredients at room temperature as it'll make them easier to work with. For this you'll need:
Large bowl
Chocolate graham cracker pie crust
16 oz. whipped topping, divided
1 cup creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
8 oz. block cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
Peanut butter cups (this one is in your control!), chopped
Chocolate syrup/fudge sauce
In a large bowl, mix softened cream cheese with peanut butter with an electric mixer. Add powdered sugar, 8 oz. whipped topping and vanilla. Mix until thick and creamy. (optional: chop 6-8 small peanut butter cups into chunks and mix) Spread mixture in pie crust. Top with remaining 8 oz. whipped topping. Using the chocolate syrup, drizzle over top the whipped topping and toss on a few more peanut butter cup pieces. OR, you can follow my idea below and use hot fudge sauce, heated just enough to make it thin-draw concentric circles on pie. Once you have them from center to outer edge, use a toothpick to drag from the center outwards creating a web effect. If you play with this idea, you can come up with lots of patterns!
Check out this one made with a traditional graham cracker crust!
The best part of this: you can use lower fat, lower sugar ingredients but be fair warned that they don't always come out as creamy as the higher fat/sugar products. I've substituted light whipped topping in this and it worked great. I've used sugar free syrup and a low sugar peanut butter. They all tasted great. Try it and tell me what you think!
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