Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Danielle's Peanut Butter Pie


This pie gets a big two thumbs up from me! YUM!!

Not only is it super tasty, but at an hour and a half, it's the quickest recipe I've tried yet! The recipe was really easy to follow and easily surpassed my expectations.

I only made one change to the recipe as I made it. It called for about 1.5 cups of crushed cookies, but I just smashed up my whole package which turned out to be maybe close to 2.5 cups of crushed cookies. To make up for the extra cookies, I used a whole stick of melted butter.

Also, I would recommend starting out with just a half batch of the hot fudge sauce. I made a half batch figuring I could make more hot fudge later if I needed to (it's super easy to make), but I'm certain the half batch will be plenty for the whole pie.

Oh and one more suggestion. You might want to try adding a little bit of cream to the chocolate that goes between the pie crust and the filling. Once it's chilled, that chocolate layer turns pretty solid and is really hard to cut through with a fork. I ended up shooting crumbs across the table when I broke through the chocolate layer on my first bite. I learned to be more careful after that, but it's still a little precarious trying to cut through the chocolate. So I think a softer chocolate layer is something I'll try next time, maybe something closer to the consistency of the refrigerated hot fudge.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Danielle, your pie is beautiful and thank you for all the great tips. I feel so bad that it's my week and I haven't even baked yet. I've got it on the schedule for tomorrow night to bring to an anniversary party on Saturday. I'm glad you liked the pie, I'm excited to try it since I LOVE peanut butter!!

Lisa said...

I'm tempted to lick my computer, that looks so good.

acandiedapple said...

Your pie pan is so pretty. Where did you get it?