Peanut Butter Pie with Fudge Topping

evelyn/athens's Note:

OK, so I never really grew up and I'm STILL addicted To Reese's Peanut Butter Cups...this needs to be refrigerated for 4-5 hours atleast before serving.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

Crust

• 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces,room temperature

Filling

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup chilled heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Topping

• 1/2 cup whipping cream
• 6 ounces chocolate, chopped

Directions:

1. For crust: Generously butter 9 inch glass pie plate.
2. Mix all crust ingredients in medium bowl and press into plate.
3. Refrigerate 1 hour.
4. For filling: Beat cream cheese and peanut butter in large bowl until well blended.
5. Add 1 cup icing sugar and butter and beat until fluffy.
6. Beat cream in separate bowl until soft peaks form.
7. Gradually add remaining 2 tblsps sugar and vanilla and beat to stiff peaks.
8. Fold 1/3 of cream into peanut butter mixture to lighten.
9. Gently fold in remainder.
10. Spoon into crust.
11. Refrigerate until firm, about 3 – 4 hours.
12. For topping: Melt chocolate with cream; stir until smooth.
13. Cool to lukewarm and spread over pie.
14. Refrigerate until firm, about 3 – 4 hours.
15. Can be prepared 1 day ahead.

Reviews

[Chef #232047]

Excellent! I did a couple of things differently though. I used a regular baked pie crust instead of a graham cracker crust. I pour about 1/4-1/2 cup of hot fudge over the cooled crust then chilled it in the freezer while I made the filling. I also used cool whip instead of whipping the cream and sugar (I used an 8 oz tub, reserving about 1 cup for the top). I then drizzled fudge on the top. I will definitely make this again.

[cindylou22312]

This was awesome!

[LAURIE]

WOW....this is awesome. So rich, and sinful! Easy to do and wonderful taste. I wanted more chocolate so I used chocolate graham crackers and that just made this creamy pie more decadent. Did I use enough adjectives? Needless to say we had this for dessert and for the 6 of us there was none left. My DD#3 who is a Reeseaholic...declared it the BOMB!