Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
This easy chocolate peanut butter pie only takes 5 ingredients and 15 minutes to make!
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 Oreo Pie Crust
- 3/4 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 cup Whipping Cream
- 3/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
- 8 oz package Cool Whip thawed
Optional Toppings
- 2 tbsp Creamy Peanut Butter
- 2 tbsp Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Additional Cool Whip or Whipping Cream that has been whipped with a bit of sugar
- mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups halved
Instructions
- Place the chocolate chips in a bowl. In the microwave or on the stovetop, heat the cream until it barely begins to simmer. Pour cream over chocolate and wait about 5 minutes.
- Whisk together the cream and chocolate (which should have melted by now) until smooth and thick. This is the chocolate ganache layer. Pour it over the Oreo crust and smooth out into an even layer.
- Chill until ganache is quite firm, 1-2 hours.
- Place peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl, and microwave in 20 second intervals until peanut butter is melted (it took 40 seconds total in my microwave).
- Gently stir the peanut butter into the thawed Cool Whip. Continue to stir until peanut butter is completely incorporated. DO NOT try to whip it in or the cool whip will deflate and the mixture will end up heavy.
- Spread peanut butter layer over ganache and chill for 2 more hours before serving.
- Top pie as desired and serve cold. To make chocolate peanut butter drizzle, melt together the additional peanut butter and chocolate chips. Place in a zip top bag and snip off a corner, then pipe or drizzle across pie.
Notes
You can vary the amount of peanut butter in this pie to your preference. I prefer using 3/4 cups of peanut butter, which gives a lighter peanut butter taste. I think that compliments the rich ganache well. However, some members of my family prefer a richer peanut butter taste, so they like the pie better with a full cup of peanut butter.