My straightforward, creamy, no-bake peanut butter pie recipe made with none gelatin or cool whip! It has a clean, creamy peanut butter filling and a crisp Oreo cookie crust. Recipe features a how-to video!
No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie
Certainly one of my favourite no-bake desserts, this peanut butter pie recipe is chocolate peanut butter perfection! It has a creamy (but appropriately fluffy), and silky clean peanut butter filling over a crunchy Oreo cookie crust. What units my recipe aside from the remainder is that the filling is comprised of scratch (no gelatin, Cool Whip, and many others.) and there’s completely no baking required (not even for the crust!).
You’ll love this one!
Find out how to Make the BEST Peanut Butter Pie
- Skip the gelatin. We’ll use brick-style cream cheese as a substitute for a slice-able consistency. This doesn’t make the pie a cheesecake, although (however when you’re in search of one, right here’s my peanut butter cheesecake!).
- Use home made whipped cream as a substitute of Cool Whip. It not solely offers the pie a richer (and fewer synthetic!) taste and clean, fluffy inside, however it’s additionally extremely easy to make. That is important for a pillowy, creamy texture!
- Make your individual crust! Not solely is a pre-made crust too small to carry all the filling we’re making at present, however you simply don’t get that very same buttery cookie crumb you get from home made. It’s additionally simply so, so straightforward to make to make your individual Oreo crust–we’re speaking actually two elements! There’s no must scrape out the filling or pre-bake the crust earlier than utilizing, both. Merely pop it within the freezer when you put together your filling.
- Freeze or refrigerate: you determine! The consistency of this pie modifications relying on the way you determine to sit back it, so you possibly can customise your outcomes. I speak extra about this within the FAQ part under.
Elements
Lower than 10 elements on this peanut butter pie recipe! Let’s go over a couple of earlier than we get began.
- Peanut butter. I take advantage of creamy peanut butter, however crunchy would work when you don’t thoughts the feel. I’ve not experimented with pure peanut butter (the sort the place the oil separates into the highest), however when you strive it with that kind I’d like to know the way it works for you.
- Cream cheese. This not solely provides depth of taste, however it additionally helps to offer it a secure, easy-to-slice consistency.
- Heavy cream. We’ll whip this into thick, fluffy whipped cream. Double cream or heavy whipping cream would additionally work.
- Oreos. You’ll want 24 sandwich cookies (complete, with out the cream eliminated). I often have you ever take away the cream if you’re making an Oreo crust for a springform pan (like my Oreo cheesecake), however it’s not obligatory right here (since we’re not baking it, there’s no want to fret concerning the crust leaking).
- Butter. That is for the crust. Personally, I like to make use of salted butter to assist counteract the sweetness of the filling, however you should use unsalted butter if that’s all you have got readily available.
SAM’S TIP: When you don’t like or can’t eat chocolate, you may make my equally easy graham cracker crust as a substitute (or substitute the Oreo cookies for Golden Oreos or Biscoff cookies).
Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the submit!
Find out how to Make Peanut Butter Pie
Make the Crust
- Pulse the Oreos in your meals processor till they’re high-quality crumbs. There is no such thing as a must take away the cream first; simply toss the cookies as-is into the meals processor.
- Add the melted butter and pulse once more to mix.
- Press the combination into your pie pan utilizing the underside of a glass, measuring cup, or spoon. Place the crust in your freezer when you make your filling.
Assemble
- Beat the cream cheese and peanut butter till mixed, then stir within the powdered sugar and vanilla. Set this apart.
- Whip the cream and remaining powdered sugar to stiff peaks in a separate bowl. The cream must be fluffy and thick when you find yourself performed. When you haven’t whipped cream earlier than or have questions on any side of the method, try my information on tips on how to make whipped cream.
- Fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter combination till clean and mixed.
- Unfold the filling into the crust, then cowl and place in both the fridge or freezer (extra on this under). Enhance with a whipped cream border and crushed sweet items earlier than serving, if desired.
SAM’S TIP: This pie softens pretty rapidly at room temperature, particularly in the course of the sizzling summer season months. Due to this, I like to recommend conserving it chilled everytime you aren’t slicing it (regardless of the place you in the end retailer it).
Incessantly Requested Questions
You are able to do both! Refrigerating requires at the very least 4-6 hours of chilling, and the pie units up with a consistency that’s softer, just like my chocolate pie. Most recipes name for refrigeration moderately than freezing.
Freezing requires at the very least 2 hours of chilling. Frozen pie finally ends up much more agency and has a consistency that’s nearer to New York cheesecake or chocolate icebox pie. The photographs on this submit have been of a frozen pie.
No matter whether or not you retain your pie within the fridge or freezer, cowl it effectively with plastic wrap. It’ll hold within the fridge for about 5 days or within the freezer for a few month.
This pie is ideal with out any toppings. Nonetheless, after making and chilling the pie, I wish to pipe an ornamental border (I take advantage of a 2A tip) of home made whipped cream across the edge after which sprinkle that with crushed Reese’s Items. It provides a pleasant further pop of shade, however once more, completely optionally available.
Alternatively you would drizzle your slice with home made caramel sauce, chocolate ganache, or chocolate sauce (one among my favourite additions)…yum!
When you love peanut butter and chocolate, strive my buckeye brownies subsequent!
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Peanut Butter Pie
Servings: 12 slices
Energy: 694kcal
Elements
Peanut Butter Pie Filling
For Whipped Cream Topping (optionally available)
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Directions
Oreo Crust
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Put together your pie crust first by inserting Oreo cookies in a meals processor and pulsing till nothing however high-quality crumbs stay
24 Oreo sandwich cookies
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Add melted butter and pulse till well-combined.
5 Tablespoons (70 g) butter, melted (salted or unsalted)
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Pour cookie crumb/butter combination into the underside of a 9 ½” pie pan. Use the again of a spoon or the clear flat backside of a measuring cup to evenly, firmly press crumbs into the underside and sides of pie pan.
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Place in freezer when you assemble your filling.
Pie Filling
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In a big bowl, mix softened cream cheese and peanut butter. Use an electrical mixer to stir till well-combined.
12 oz (340 g) cream cheese (brick-style, not the “spreadable” variety offered in tubs), 1 ½ cups (375 g) creamy peanut butter
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Regularly add 1 cup (125g) of powdered sugar, stirring till fully mixed.
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Stir in vanilla extract.
1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract
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Pour 1 ½ cups heavy cream in a separate, medium-sized, clear bowl. Add remaining 1 ¼ cup (155g) of powdered sugar, and use an electrical mixer to beat, beginning on low-speed and steadily rising to excessive, till stiff peaks are achieved (combination must be thick, fluffy, and resemble Cool Whip, see picture in submit or video for a visible).
1 ½ cups (355 ml) heavy cream
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Add whipped cream into peanut butter combination and stir gently, however in addition to you possibly can utilizing a spatula. Swap to your electrical mixer on low and use that to briefly stir till the elements are well-combined and clean (do not over-mix).
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Unfold peanut butter filling evenly into ready pie crust and refrigerate lined for 4-6 hours (ideally in a single day), or freeze¹, lined, for at the very least 2 hours earlier than serving. Put together whipped cream shortly earlier than serving (if utilizing).
Do-it-yourself Whipped Cream Topping (optionally available)
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Earlier than serving the pie, mix heavy cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract in a clear medium-sized bowl.
¾ cup (175 ml) heavy cream, ¼ cup (30 g) powdered sugar, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
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Use an electrical mixer to stir on low-speed. Regularly improve pace to excessive and beat till stiff peaks kind.
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Unfold whipped topping over the middle of the pie, or to be extra ornamental you possibly can switch to a piping bag fitted with a 2D Wilton piping tip or related and pipe an ornamental ring across the fringe of the pie.
2 Tablespoons crushed Reese’s Items for adorning
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Slice, serve, and revel in! Since this pie is a no-bake one, hold it within the fridge or freezer when not having fun with as a result of it loses its firmness rapidly at room temperature.
Notes
¹Refrigerator vs Freezer
Refrigerating this pie provides you with a creamier, softer consistency (just like my chocolate pie), whereas freezing it provides you with a firmer, simpler to slice one with a consistency that jogs my memory extra of cheesecake. I usually refrigerate as I just like the consistency greatest.
Storing
Retailer well-covered. Pie will hold within the fridge for about 5 days or will hold frozen for one month.
Diet
Serving: 1slice | Energy: 694kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 12g | Fats: 52g | Saturated Fats: 24g | Ldl cholesterol: 105mg | Sodium: 368mg | Potassium: 333mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 1182IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 77mg | Iron: 3mg
Dietary info relies on third-party calculations and must be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will differ primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
This recipe was initially printed 08/10/2017, I’ve up to date it to incorporate newer footage and extra suggestions.
