My straightforward, creamy, no-bake peanut butter pie recipe made with none gelatin or cool whip! It has a easy, creamy peanut butter filling and a crisp Oreo cookie crust. Recipe features a how-to video!
No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie
One in all my favourite no-bake desserts, this peanut butter pie recipe is chocolate peanut butter perfection! It has a creamy (but appropriately fluffy), and silky easy peanut butter filling over a crunchy Oreo cookie crust. What units my recipe aside from the remainder is that the filling is made out of scratch (no gelatin, Cool Whip, and so on.) and there’s completely no baking required (not even for the crust!).
You will love this one!
The right way 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 in case you’re on the lookout for one, right here’s my peanut butter cheesecake!).
- Use do-it-yourself whipped cream as a substitute of Cool Whip. It not solely provides the pie a richer (and fewer synthetic!) taste and easy, fluffy inside, but it surely’s additionally extremely easy to make. That is important for a pillowy, creamy texture!
- Make your personal crust! Not solely is a pre-made crust too small to carry the entire filling we’re making immediately, however you simply don’t get that very same buttery cookie crumb you get from do-it-yourself. It’s additionally simply so, so straightforward to make to make your personal Oreo crust–we’re speaking actually two substances! 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 relax it, so you possibly can customise your outcomes. I discuss extra about this within the FAQ part beneath.
Elements
Lower than 10 substances on this peanut butter pie recipe! Let’s go over a couple of earlier than we get began.
- Peanut butter. I exploit creamy peanut butter, however crunchy would work in case you don’t thoughts the feel. I’ve not experimented with pure peanut butter (the type the place the oil separates into the highest), however in case you attempt it with that sort I’d like to know the way it works for you.
- Cream cheese. This not solely provides depth of taste, but it surely additionally helps to provide it a steady, 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 normally have you ever take away the cream if you’re making an Oreo crust for a springform pan (like my Oreo cheesecake), but it surely’s not crucial 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 need to use unsalted butter if that’s all you will have readily available.
SAM’S TIP: In case you don’t like or can’t eat chocolate, you can also make my equally easy graham cracker crust as a substitute (or substitute the Oreo cookies for Golden Oreos or Biscoff cookies).
Bear in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the publish!
The right way to Make Peanut Butter Pie
Make the Crust
- Pulse the Oreos in your meals processor till they’re positive 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 ought to be fluffy and thick when you find yourself completed. In case you haven’t whipped cream earlier than or have questions on any facet of the method, try my information on methods to make whipped cream.
- Fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter combination till easy and mixed.
- Unfold the filling into the crust, then cowl and place in both the fridge or freezer (extra on this beneath). Embellish 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 throughout the scorching summer season months. Due to this, I like to recommend preserving it chilled everytime you aren’t slicing it (irrespective of the place you in the end retailer it).
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
You are able to do both! Refrigerating requires at the least 4-6 hours of chilling, and the pie units up with a consistency that’s softer, much like my chocolate pie. Most recipes name for refrigeration quite than freezing.
Freezing requires at the 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 images on this publish had 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 is going to preserve within the fridge for about 5 days or within the freezer for a couple of month.
This pie is ideal with out any toppings. Nevertheless, after making and chilling the pie, I wish to pipe an ornamental border (I exploit a 2A tip) of do-it-yourself whipped cream across the edge after which sprinkle that with crushed Reese’s Items. It provides a pleasant additional pop of coloration, however once more, completely non-compulsory.
Alternatively you possibly can drizzle your slice with do-it-yourself caramel sauce, chocolate ganache, or chocolate sauce (one among my favourite additions)…yum!
In case you love peanut butter and chocolate, attempt 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 (non-compulsory)
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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 positive 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 bought in tubs), 1 ½ cups (375 g) creamy peanut butter
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Step by step 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 progressively growing to excessive, till stiff peaks are achieved (combination ought to be thick, fluffy, and resemble Cool Whip, see picture in publish 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 substances are well-combined and easy (do not over-mix).
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Unfold peanut butter filling evenly into ready pie crust and refrigerate coated for 4-6 hours (ideally in a single day), or freeze¹, coated, for at the least 2 hours earlier than serving. Put together whipped cream shortly earlier than serving (if utilizing).
Selfmade Whipped Cream Topping (non-compulsory)
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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. Step by step enhance velocity to excessive and beat till stiff peaks type.
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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 comparable 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 luxuriate in! Since this pie is a no-bake one, preserve 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 gives you a creamier, softer consistency (much like my chocolate pie), whereas freezing it gives you 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 finest.
Storing
Retailer well-covered. Pie will preserve within the fridge for about 5 days or will preserve 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 data relies on third-party calculations and ought to be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will differ based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
This recipe was initially revealed 08/10/2017, I’ve up to date it to incorporate newer photos and extra suggestions.