No-bake Peanut Butter Cream Pie

This amazingly easy-to-make no-bake Peanut Butter Cream Pie is a rich silky layer of peanut butter filling in an Oreo cookie pie shell, covered with a meringue-like whipped cream, and topped with all kinds of goodies.  A peanut butter and chocolate lovers dream come true.

This past Friday was my Dad’s 83rd Birthday, so on his day I like to treat him with a cake or some other dessert.  My father has a giant sweet tooth, one that would make the tooth fairy run screaming into the darkness.  Knowing that peanut butter and chocolate are one of his all-time favorites flavor combos, I usually try to come up with a different take using the dynamic duo for his treat.  My work schedule as of lately has me rising at three a.m. and running out the door by four, and by the time I have been getting home in the late afternoon, I am finished, baked, just stick a fork in me and call me done.  I really wanted to do something to mark his day and about mid-week the idea of a pie came to mind.  Despite my lack of time I thought that a pie was something that I could pull off, then the no-bake notion crept in, and I knew this plan was totally doable.  So Friday after work, I stopped and picked up a few items, (including a DVD with 31 episodes of Bonanza), and in about a half an hour had managed to put together a masterpiece to present as a present.

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No-bake Peanut Butter Cream Pie

Prep Time

20 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

This amazingly easy to make pie is a rich silky layer of peanut butter filling in an Oreo cookie pie shell, covered with a meringue-like whipped cream, and topped with all kinds of goodies. A peanut butter and chocolate lovers dream come true.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12

Author: Christoph

Ingredients

• 1 Oreo pie crust
• 1 container 8 ounce of whipped topping
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ½ Tablespoons meringue powder
• 1¾ cups powdered sugar divided
• 8 ounce cream cheese softened
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• ¼ cup milk
• ½ cup mini chocolate chips
• ½ cup chopped peanuts
• chocolate and peanut butter melting chips optional

Method

1. Using a hand mixer, in a medium-sized mixing bowl beat together the whipped topping, vanilla, meringue powder, and ¾ cup of powdered sugar for 3 – 5 minutes or until stiff peaks have formed.
2. Place in the refrigerator while you prepare the filling.
3. In another bowl mix together the softened cream cheese, peanut butter, milk, and 1 cup of powdered sugar until smooth and silky (add more milk a teaspoon at a time if needed for mixing).
4. Fold in one half of the whipped cream and mix until completely incorporated.
5. Pour peanut butter filling in to pie crust and smooth out using a spatula.
6. Pipe or spread the other half of the whipped topping evenly over the filling (I found piping with a star tip was easier that trying to spread the whipped cream).
7. Sprinkle the mini chocolate chips and peanuts over the top of the pie.

Cooks Notes

For an extra touch temper some chocolate and peanut butter chips in the microwave and drizzle or pipe over the entire pie. This would also be great topped with some chopped up Reese’s peanut butter cups, maybe a great use for some left over Halloween candy?