Instructions
Simply The Best Peanut Butter Pie with Pretzel Crust…
A pie with pretzels, peanut butter, cream cheese and chocolate – a combination of crunchy and creamy, sweet and salty…. it sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?
Ingredients
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- 3 cups of ground pretzels, (about 6-7 cups whole pretzels, you can ground these until they are crumbs or leave them a bit thicker for more of a toffee bark texture) , plus more for decoration about 1/4 cup
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/4 cup peanut butter, crunchy (I used crunchy for texture)
- 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 oz Cool Whip (you can use lite)
- Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups for decoration
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine the crust ingredients with a fork until evenly moistened.
- Lightly coat the bottom and sides of an 9-inch springform pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Pour the crumbs into the pan and, using the bottom of a measuring cup or the smooth bottom of a glass, press the crumbs down into the base and all the way up the sides.
- Bake for about 10 minutes, and then sprinkle chocolate chips over the bottom of the crust.
- Bake for an additional 5 minutes before removing from oven.
- Once removed, using a spatula, spread the melted chocolate chips to evenly coat the bottom and side of the pretzel crust with a thin layer of chocolate.
- Allow chocolate to completely cool in refrigerator before filling.
- Beat cream cheese and peanut butter together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in vanilla and powdered sugar until well combined, scraping down sides of the mixing bowl as necessary.
- Then gently fold in 2 cups or half of the cool whip tube.
- This should result in a light and fluffy texture.
- Pour the peanut butter filling evenly in the deep dish.
- Spread the remaining cool whip over peanut butter filling.
- Crush some reese’s peanut butter cups and place together with ground pretzels around the outside of the pie in a circle.
- Place some whole and sliced peanut butter cups in the middle to form a pile.
- Keep refrigerated or frozen.
Thank You So Much…
Ingredients
- 3 cups of ground pretzels, (about 6-7 cups whole pretzels, you can ground these until they are crumbs or leave them a bit thicker for more of a toffee bark texture) , plus more for decoration about 1/4 cup
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/4 cup peanut butter, crunchy (I used crunchy for texture)
- 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 oz Cool Whip (you can use lite)
- Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Cups for decoration