Unbelievable Peanut Butter Pie – Sally’s Baking Habit

This wealthy and indulgent peanut butter pie is a dream dessert; each chunk bursts with creamy peanut butter and candy chocolate—the last word taste combo. Constructed on an Oreo cookie crust, it’s layered with a wealthy peanut butter filling, a clean 2-ingredient chocolate ganache, and contemporary whipped cream. End it off with chopped peanuts and Reese’s Items for an unbelievable dessert nobody will neglect.

I initially printed this recipe in 2016 and have since added new images and extra success ideas.

There’s no taste duo fairly like peanut butter + chocolate. Within the kitchen, I’ve made desserts like chocolate peanut butter cheesecake bars, no-bake peanut butter bars, and peanut butter ice cream pie. My chocolate chip cookie layer cake is even stuffed with a chocolate peanut butter frosting. As we speak, we’re together with a wildly decadent pie to the combo: unbelievable peanut butter pie.

There’s quite a bit to cowl, so let’s dive proper in.

This Is Unbelievable Peanut Butter Pie

The layers! The textures! This may simply be the richest dessert I’ve ever made, proper alongside chocolate peanut butter cake. As we speak’s recipe is a brand new twist on basic peanut butter pie with a crisp Oreo cookie crust, extremely creamy peanut butter filling, clean chocolate ganache, and fluffy whipped cream. Crunchy toppings embody Reese’s Items and chopped peanuts.

It’s a peanut butter lover’s dream come true.

4 Components to Peanut Butter Pie

1. Oreo Crust
2. Peanut Butter Filling
3. Chocolate Ganache
4. Whipped Cream & Toppings

Whereas the total written recipe is beneath, right here I’ll information you thru every element so you recognize precisely what to do and learn how to time all the pieces effectively.

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Oreo Crust

A graham cracker crust can be glorious right here, however I at all times make this peanut butter pie with an Oreo crust. You may even use peanut butter Oreos, to essentially amp up the flavour. We’re utilizing the identical recipe and approach discovered over on my Oreo crust recipe web page. Pulse the Oreos (the entire Oreo, together with the chocolate cookies and the filling) right into a positive crumb, then mix the Oreo crumbs with somewhat melted butter. Simply 2 components and really simple.

Press the combination firmly right into a pie dish and bake the crust. I like to recommend starting with this step so the crust has time to chill down earlier than assembling. That is the one layer that requires baking—the remainder of the recipe is totally no-bake. I really like making this pie within the hotter summer time months when our kitchen welcomes a break from the recent oven.

You would use a Biscoff pie crust as a substitute, in the event you’d like.

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Chocolate Ganache Topping

Subsequent, I like to recommend making the chocolate ganache so it could briefly cool and thicken when you make the peanut butter filling. If it’s too scorching, it’s going to begin to break down the filling beneath it.

You solely want 2 components for the chocolate ganache topping: chocolate and heavy cream. Merely pour heat cream over chocolate and stir. Use a high quality chocolate as a result of it’s the place the entire taste comes from. I might keep away from utilizing chocolate chips as a result of they comprise stabilizers to assist them maintain their form—use the actual deal. Pure chocolate by no means permits you to down. See my chocolate ganache web page in the event you want additional assist with it.

Peanut Butter Pie Filling

This peanut butter filling is about as wealthy as they arrive. You want simply 5 components together with heavy cream, peanut butter, cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla extract. You may’t actually style the cream cheese; moderately, all you style is additional creamy peanut butter. We use the precise filling as a layer in peanut butter banana cream pie, too.

Right here I add *a contact* extra heavy cream, so as to add a bit extra quantity. Begin by whipping the heavy cream to show it into whipped cream. In a separate bowl, beat the opposite 4 components collectively, then gently fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter combination. The result’s a creamy, ethereal peanut butter filling.

Let me present you that in images. Prime left: whipped cream. Prime proper: peanut butter combination. Backside left: whipped cream folded into the peanut butter combination. Backside proper: spreading all of it into the baked Oreo crust.

Unfold the thickened chocolate ganache on prime after which refrigerate the pie for a minimum of 6 hours or in a single day. The pie gained’t slice properly until it’s been sufficiently refrigerated.

Nice dessert to make a day forward of time!

Toppings

With the identical components you used within the filling, make some contemporary whipped cream to go on prime. The whipped cream isn’t tremendous candy; it’s gentle and fluffy, which pairs completely with the deeply wealthy pie. To spherical out the myriad textures, prime with crushed Reese’s Items and chopped peanuts.

As a substitute of Reese’s Items and peanuts, strive crushed M&Ms, or skip them altogether.

I often garnish the pie simply earlier than serving as a result of the whipped cream may start to weep on the delicate ganache. You’ll wish to wait till the filling has set.

This dessert is at all times enjoyable for birthdays, however I’ve additionally served it alongside Father’s Day recipes, Mom’s Day recipes, for Valentine’s Day, anniversary dessert—and even when there is no such thing as a event in any respect (as a result of why not?). It’s at all times devoured!

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