No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie

Peanut butter pie is a no bake pie that has a graham cracker crust, decadent peanut butter filling, and drizzled with semi-sweet chocolate and crushed nuts.

If you love peanut butter, this cream cheese peanut butter cream pie is a must make. good for holiday entertaining, as a potluck dessert, birthday treat, or even a gift to a loved one.

An easy peanut butter recipe that will melt in your mouth. One bite will win you over. Pb pie is a must make for your confection desires.

Why This Recipe Is A Must…

• No-bake pie – 6 ingredients
• 5 minutes to whip up and pour in the shell to chill.
• Simple ingredients.
• No-bake dessert
• Affordable to make.
• Kid-approved.
• Addictive!

• Heavy Cream
• Peanut Butter
• Cream Cheese
• Powdered Sugar
• Vanilla
• Graham Cracker Crust
• Mini Chocolate Chips (optional)
• Chopped Nuts (optional)

How to Make

Step 1: We used a prepared crust, if you don’t have one you can make your own graham cracker crust.

Step 2: In a stand mixer cream your softened cream cheese. Once it is whipped up you will want to add in the heavy cream.

Step 3: Then slowly stir in the powdered sugar, don’t do too much at a time or it will splatter out. Add in your vanilla extract. Blend until creamy.

Step 4: Pour the peanut butter cream cheese mixture into the prepared graham cracker crust. Smooth and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

Step 5: Right before serving we melted cup mini chocolate chips in the microwave.

Drizzled over the top and added crushed nuts and mini chocolate chips. This is optional for decorating.

Keeping leftovers

This peanut butter dessert needs to be stored in the refrigerator or it will spoil. Once you have it whipped up, cover well and store for up to a week in the fridge.

If you want you can even freeze the pie, and just allow it to thaw in the fridge overnight before slicing and serving.

This easy peanut butter pie is great for a potluck dessert, holiday entertaining, weeknight no bake dessert, and more.

A peanut butter cream cheese pie that is fluffy, and mighty in flavor.

Expert Tips

• We used half creamy peanut butter and half crunchy. We liked the mix of nuts in the pie. You can do all one style of peanut butter if you want.
• Get creative with the pie toppings. Whipped cream, a drizzle of peanut butter that has been melted, or serves plain.
• You can make this a day or two in advance. A great make-ahead dessert.
• Swap the graham cracker crust with an Oreo or cookie crust. It gives a nice peanut butter chocolate pie flavor.
• If you want to serve this in a traditional pie crust go ahead and make and bake the pie crust. Allow the crust to fully cool before you pour the peanut butter filling in.

Practical notes

How do you make peanut butter pie from scratch?

Making peanut butter pie from scratch is easy. add heavy cream to mixer and whip on high for 2 minutes. Then stir in peanut butter, cream cheese, and slowly add in powdered sugar and vanilla. Pour into graham cracker crust and refrigerate.

How long does peanut butter pie last?

You can expect your peanut butter pie to last 3-5 days when stored in the refrigerator at the proper temperature. Depending on toppings the shelf life could vary a bit.

What is the best peanut butter to use for peanut butter pie?

You can use creamy or crunchy peanut butter to make the peanut butter pie. We like to do 1/2 cup creamy and 1/2 cup crunchy for added texture.

How long does it take peanut butter pie to set up?

This pie will take around 4 hours in the refrigerator overnight. If you want to speed up the setting up you can put the pie in the freezer for an hour.

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• Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls – A No Bake Holiday Recipe
• Instant Pot Peanut Butter Cheesecake With Nutter Butter Cookies
• No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Lasagna Recipe
• Double Peanut Butter Cupcakes
• Peanut Butter Blossoms

Ingredients

Makes 1 pie

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup peanut butter, I used 1/2 crunchy peanut butter and 1/2 creamy
• 8 ounces softened cream cheese
• [1/2 teaspoon vanilla ]
• 1 1/4 cup powdered sguar
• 1 graham cracker crust or cookie crust

Topping Optional

• 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
• 1/4 Ice cream chopped nuts

Equipment

• 9 inch round baking dish
• 9 inch pie carrier

Method

1. In a stand mixer or with a hand mixer cream your heavy cream and cream cheese for 2 minutes at high speed.
2. Add in the vanilla extract and gently mix in the powdered sugar.
3. Next, pour in your peanut butter and cream cheese and mix until creamy.
4. Once well mixed pour the peanut butter mixture into your prepared graham cracker crust. Cover and refrigerate for 4-6 hours or freeze for 1 hour to set up the no-bake pie.
5. When you are ready to serve you can decorate the pie if you want.
6. We melted 1/4 cup of the chocolate chips in the microwave and drizzled them over the pie. Then sprinkled on mini chocolate chips and chopped ice cream topping nuts.

Kitchen notes

You can use all plain peanut butter or all crunchy. We just liked the mix of the two. Decorate the pie with a layer of whipped cream, nuts, and chocolate like we did, melt peanut butter for a drizzle, etc. This PB pie will store for up to five days in the fridge. Or freeze the leftover pie for up to three months. You can make your own pie crust if you want, or buy Oreo crust as well. If you use a classic pie crust just fully bake and allow the crust to cool before pouring in pie mixture.