- If you love peanut butter and chocolate together,
then you're not going to want to miss today's recipe.
It's a peanut butter pie that's no-bake with
a peanut butter crust, a peanut butter filling,
tons of peanut butter cups and a chocolate topping.
You're not going to want to to miss it.
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Hey everyone, it's Dorothy with crazyforcrust.com
and welcome back to my kitchen.
Today I'm showing you one of my favorite pies.
It's a no-bake peanut butter pie full of my favorite candy,
peanut butter cups.
This pie has two cups of chopped peanut butter cups in it.
If you love chocolate and peanut butter,
this is going to be the pie that you request all year long.
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Now let's get in the kitchen.
Making this pie couldn't be easier.
We're going to start with the crust.
Now you have a few different options
when you make a no-bake crust.
You could always buy one at the store.
I'm totally not going to judge you for that.
But if you want to make a homemade one and make this
a fully peanut butter pie, use Nutter Butters.
That's what I used for this pie crust today.
So it's a fully peanut butter pie,
but this would also be amazing with Oreo cookies
or even peanut butter Oreos.
And if you, I think Nutter Butters are more of a U.S. thing,
so if you're outside the United States and you can't find
Nutter Butters, it's just a peanut butter sandwich cookie.
So whatever you decide to use for your crust,
we're going to make it by crumbling the cookies
in a food processor.
And no, I do not remove the filling.
So just add about 20 to 25 cookies to your food processor
and process until they're fine.
You may need to pulse it a few times just to make sure
any big chunks get broken up.
And then go ahead and add the crumbs
to five tablespoons of melted butter.
I'm using unsalted butter but you could use salted
if that's what you have.
And then stir it together with a fork.
I like using a fork to stir my crust together
so it doesn't get really compacted.
It stays nice and sandy.
And once that butter is completely incorporated,
you're going to press it into an up the sides
of a nine-inch pie plate.
This would also be fine with like a nine and a half
to a 10 inch pipe plate, but don't go much bigger than that
or there won't be enough filling,
Just go ahead and press it in, compact it.
And then you're going to chill the crust
while we make the filling.
The filling for this pie is all peanut butter
and the peanut butter cups.
So we're going to start with eight ounces of cream cheese,
and you're going to add a quarter of a cup of granulated
sugar for sweetness and a third of a cup
of creamy peanut butter.
I'm just using a Skippy natural peanut butter.
You could also use crunchy.
You could use any sort of peanut butter that you like.
I don't recommend using a homemade one.
It's best to use one of the commercial ones
you don't have to stir, but I do use the Skippy
or Jiffy naturals if you like that.
But go ahead and use a hand mixer to mix that together
until it's nice and smooth, and then add in
one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Mix it until it's smooth, it'll be nice and thick.
Now I love using Cool Whip in my no-bake pies
because it's super simple, easy, no extra work for me.
Plus it holds up better I find in the refrigerator,
but if you want to use fresh whipped cream,
then you're going to whip about probably
one and a half cups of cold, heavy whipping cream
to get about three cups or so of fresh whipped cream.
But I'm just going to use an eight-ounce container
of cool whip.
You can use any kind of Cool Whip, extra creamy,
fat free, sugar, free, whatever you want.
And go ahead and stir that
and we're going to fold it in carefully.
Don't use your mixer just fold it in, it'll seem like
it's not going to mix together with the peanut butter mixture
because it's so thick, but it will just keep folding
and be careful not to stir it too fast or hard.
You don't want to like, break the whipped part
of the Cool Whip.
So we have all that together.
Then we're going to deal with our peanut butter cups.
Now you could use regular size.
You could buy the ones that, those little mini ones that
come unwrapped, I'm just using the miniatures.
I unwrapped them, I'm using a few big handfuls.
I just measured out two cups of them already wrapped
and that's what I'm unwrapping.
If they start to peel sometimes if your house is warm,
the chocolate will peel off the peanut butter.
So if that's happening, just pop them in their refrigerator
for a couple minutes so they can kind of harden up.
They'll unwrap weight easier that way.
Once you have them all and wrapped
go ahead and chop them up.
You want small chunks, not too big, not too fine.
And then you're going to do about one and a half cups or so
into the mixture of the peanut butter mixture.
You're not going to use all of it, save some for the topping
but go ahead and just stir about three quarters
of the chopped peanut butter cups into your pie filling.
Now it's time to assemble our pie.
So go ahead and put the pie filling into the pie crust
and spread it out evenly.
All right, now that we have our pie assembled
it's time to top it.
Now you can totally just stop here,
top it with the crumbled peanut butter cups.
Maybe even add some extra whipped cream
but I'm going to go one step further and I'm going to add
a jar of hot fudge sauce.
And so I'm just using like a Smucker's hot fudge right here
and I'm going to put the whole jar on top of this pie
and spread it all around until it's nice and smooth.
And then I'm going to chill that until it's set,
just a couple of hours and then sprinkle it with the rest
of the crumbled peanut butter cups.
This pie is a peanut butter lover's dream.
And there we have it, peanut butter cup pie.
This thing is peanut butter to the max.
Remember it's a peanut butter crust,
a peanut butter filling, peanut butter cups
and a chocolate top.
I am so excited to cut a slice of this.
Alright, let's have a little taste of our pie.
It is so peanut buttery, that filling is just
super peanut buttery and the peanut butter cups
and the crust is nice and crunchy
it adds that extra hint of peanut butter flavor.
Again, I think this would also be fantastic
with an Oreo crust.
Oh, this is, if you love peanut butter and chocolate,
this is the pie for you, I know you're going to love it.
Leave me a comment and let me know how much you
love peanut butter, I'm going to go enjoy this pie
while you keep watching.
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