Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pie

Submitted by evelynathens

"This recipe developed due to my adolescent addiction to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Very good. This needs to be refrigerated for 4 hours before serving, but is worth the weight - pun intended.;-)"

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• Crust

• 1 2⁄3 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

• Filling

• 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 1⁄4 cup milk
• 1 cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 1⁄2 cups well-chilled heavy cream
• 4 tablespoons chopped salted peanuts
• chocolate fudge sauce

directions

1. Make crust: Preheat oven to 425F.
2. Combine well crumbs, sugar and butter and press into a 9 inch glass pie plate.
3. Bake for 5 minutes, turn oven off, and bake for a further 4 minutes.
4. Sprinkle in chocolate chips and leave in turned-off oven 1 minute longer.
5. Remove from oven and with a butter knife or off-set spatula, spread melted chocolate chips along bottom and up sides of pastry crust.
6. Cool.
7. Make filling: Beat cream cheese with icing sugar until light and fluffy.
8. Beat in milk, peanut butter and vanilla.
9. In a chilled bowl, beat cream until it holds stiff peaks.
10. Stir 1/3 of the whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture, and fold in remaining cream gently but thoroughly.
11. Turn into shell, sprinkle with peanuts and chill, covered, for atleast 4 hours.
12. Serve with chocolate fudge sauce for whomever wants it.