Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pie

Post date: Mar 15, 2016 8:31:11 PM

Ingredients

Crust:

• 1 (7.9 oz.) container Udi's Gluten-free Soft & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
• 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
• 1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted

Filling:

• 6 oz. cream cheese or Neufchâtel, room temperature
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips or mini M&M's

Instructions

Crust:

1. Spray pie plate with non-stick spray. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. Using a food processor or food chopper, pulse the chocolate chip cookies until mixture is course crumbs with some larger chunks. (see photo in blog post).
3. Transfer cookie crumbs to a medium size bowl. Add brown sugar and whisk.
4. Pour melted butter over cookie mixture and whisk until well blended.
5. Transfer cookie mixture into greased pie plate. Use a spatula or your fingers to press the cookie crumbs firmly across bottom of the pie plate.
6. Bake in preheated oven at 375° for 9 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and set aside to cool while you make the filling.

Filling and assembly:

1. In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat the cream cheese, peanut butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract on medium speed until combined. Mixture look like a peanut butter cookie dough.
2. In a separate bowl, use an electric mixer to whip the heavy whipping cream until soft peaks form.
3. Scoop 1 heaping cup of the whipped cream and add to the peanut butter mixture. Beat on low speed until mixed thoroughly.
4. Scoop remaining whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture and use a spatula to gently fold the whipped cream until mixed in.
5. Gently stir in the mini chocolate chips.
6. Scoop the filling into the cooled crust. Place in refrigerator for 4 hours or overnight.
7. This is very rich so you'll want to slice this thinly -not like the slice in the photo!
8. Keep leftovers refrigerated.

Notes

This recipe assumes the use of a peanut butter that has salt in it. If using a natural peanut butter without salt, add a pinch of salt in Step 1 of making the filling.