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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie with Honey Whipped Cream

Creamy peanut butter pie in a nutter butter crust, with a layer of chocolate ganache and topped with honey whipped cream.

Course Dessert

Ingredients

Nutter Butter Crust

  • 20 Nutter Butter cookies
  • 5 tablespoons salted butter, melted

Ganache

  • 4 ounces good quality chocolate, semi-sweet or dark, chopped
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon salted butter

Pie Filling

  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 3/4 cup heavy cream

Honey Whipped Cream

  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • pinch or two of sea salt flakes

Topping

  • chocolate shavings, optional

Instructions

Nutter Butter Crust

  1. Pre-heat oven to 350ºF.
  2. Blend cookies (filling & all) into fine crumbs in a food processor.
  3. Stir cookie crumbs and melted butter together until thoroughly mixed.
  4. Press crumbs onto bottom and sides of 9” pie plate.
  5. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until crust is golden brown.
  6. Remove and let cool.

Ganache

  1. Place chocolate in a small bowl.
  2. Heat cream in a small saucepan over medium heat until simmering.
  3. Pour cream over chocolate and let sit for 2 minutes.
  4. Whisk together chocolate and cream until smooth and creamy.
  5. Add butter and whisk until smooth.

  6. Allow to cool until thick.

  7. Once the crust is cool, and the chocolate is cool and thickened, spread chocolate into an even layer over the crust.
  8. Place the crust in the fridge for a few minutes to let the chocolate firm up a bit more.

Pie Filling

  1. Beat together the cream cheese, peanut butter and vanilla until well mixed.
  2. Add powdered sugar and mix until combined. Set aside.
  3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with whisk attachment, whip heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
  4. Fold the whipped cream into peanut butter mixture.
  5. Spread the peanut butter mixture over the chocolate layer in the crust.
  6. Refrigerate while you make the honey whipped cream.

Honey Whipped Cream

  1. Beat ingredients on medium high speed, until stiff peaks form.

  2. Top peanut butter filling with honey whipped cream.
  3. Chill pie for a few hours.
  4. Top with chocolate shavings if desired.