Fudgy Peanut Butter Ricotta Pie

Ang11002's Note:

Got this off a coupon for ricotta cheese! Enjoy! No, the way I listed the sugar is not an error:)

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 8-inch ready-made graham cracker crust
• 6 ounces chocolate chips, melted
• 3 tablespoons butter, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups smooth peanut butter
• 1/4 cup sugar, plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3/4 cup ricotta cheese
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Directions:

1. Melt chocolate chips and spread 2/3 of it into crust bottom and up sides about half.
2. Put crust in freezer and save rest for top of pie.
3. With electric mixer, mix butter, peanut butter and 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar for 2 minutes at medium speed until smooth.
4. Add ricotta cheese and mix for 1 additional minute on medium.
5. In seperate bowl, whip heavy cream with the 1 tablespoon sugar and vanilla until it holds a soft peak.
6. Gently fold cream mixture into the peanut butter mixture making sure to incorporate all of the cream.
7. Get out crust from freezer and scoop filling carefully into crust.
8. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
9. With fork, drizzle remaining melted chocolate chips over top and serve.

Reviews

[sassykat1213]

My family loved this pie. The peanut butter flavor is very strong, which most of us liked except one son. I might experiment with only one cup of peanut butter next time. YUM. :)

[puppitypup]

This was wonderful! I topped it with coolwhip and sprinkled shaved chocolate on top rather than dribbling chocolate. The only problem I had was that the 4 oz of chocolate chips spread across the graham crust, while absolutely delicious, was so hard that I had a very hard time cutting the pie to serve. I had used a storebought graham crust, meaning it was in a flimsy pie tin. Next time I will make my own crust in a pyrex pie plate so that the sharp knife doesn't cut right through the pie tin. Thank you for a wonderful recipe Angela!

[RéeLani]

Simple to mix up and yummy to eat. I used Keebler's Low Fat graham cracker crust, and it crumbled as I was spreading the chocolate in it, so we had more of a pudding than a pie. Regardless of the "format" however, BF was thrilled with it.