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No. 8 – Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
(Recipe and photos updated 1/18/2016)
Happy President’s Day!  Someday, somebody somewhere is going to change the name “President’s Day” to “National – go buy a mattress Monday.”  Or at least that’s what one would think with all the commercials and discounts.
In honor of President’s Day we’ll have a little history “did you know” lesson:
Did you know there were eight United States Presidents born in Virginia?  The big No. 1 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.  Also six Presidents’ wives were born in Virginia.  Mrs. Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, Letitia Tyler, Ellen Arthur, Edith Wilson. And last but not least, seven Presidents are buried in Virginia: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Tyler, Taft and Kennedy.   Kennedy is buried at Arlington which most people think is in Washington, D.C. but it is just across the Potomac in Virginia.
Now that the day has not been totally wasted, let’s make a rich, decadent, creamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
After spending last weekend in Asheville North Carolina, I knew I’d have to make a pie that could come close to the one I tasted at The Grove Park Inn for Sunday Brunch.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
This pie may not be as pretty as the one from The Grove Park Inn, but the taste is pretty darn close!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
This is a very rich pie, but oh-so wonderful.  If you like chocolate and peanut butter, you’ll like this!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
(Update 1/18/2016 – based on feedback and comments I tested the recipe again and reduced the amount of butter in the crust.  Thank you all for trying my recipes and for reading the blog.  I made additional notes in the recipe below.  Thanks so much!)

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No. 8 - Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

Course: Pie
Author: Tricia
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A rich, but wonderful, creamy peanut butter pie filling topped with chocolate ganache. Cut into small slices using a hot knife.

Ingredients

  • For the crust:
  • 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 12 sheets
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • For the filling:
  • 16 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • For the Ganache:
  • 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 2 ounces semisweet chocolate finely chopped good quality

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter until well blended.   Press the mixture into the sides and bottom of a nine-inch deep dish pie plate.  Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.  Cool completely.
  • Beat cream cheese and sugar in a mixing bowl.  Add the peanut butter and vanilla and mix well.  Beat in the melted butter gradually.
  • In a separate bowl, whip the cream until soft peaks form.  Gently fold the cream into the peanut butter mixture using a spatula.  Do not over beat.  Pour into the prepared, cool crust and refrigerate for several hours until set.
  • Place the chopped chocolate in a small bowl. Bring the cream to a boil in a saucepan.  Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir gently until melted and smooth.  Cool slightly and spread evenly over the pie.  Chill until served.
  • Cut with a knife that has been heated under hot water and wiped dry between each slice.

Recipe Notes

(Inspired by a recipe in Biltmore, Our Table To Yours, Chef's Selection Cookbook)
RECIPE and photos updated 1/18/2016
Recommendations: After testing this recipe a couple of times, I believe (and taste testers agree) the chocolate layer is too thick. Next time I'll test using chocolate curls or a drizzle of chocolate and update the post again! It's still a deliciously rich pie - just a pain to cut with the slab of chocolate on top.
Have a great week and thanks so much for stopping by!
Tricia

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23 Comments

  2. Angie says

    I found this recipe last year and I loved it. I blind baked a pie crust and then put a thin layer of the ganache directly on the bottom of the crust. After letting it set, I added the peanut butter filling and then topped with another thin layer of ganache. Turned out great! It was a huge hit with my family.

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    • Tricia Buice says

      Thank you so much for the comment and feedback Angie. I love your idea of the ganache on bottom – in fact this pie would be a whole lot easier to cut with just ganache on the bottom. This is a great pie for peanut butter and chocolate lovers like me 🙂 Have a happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season. Thank you so much for the great idea and for trying our recipe!

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  4. Bethany says

    hi! This pie looks so delicious! I can’t wait to make it this weekend! I have a question though… Do you think this pie would freeze well? I’m thinking about doubling the recipe and saving one for another time! Just wondering if you had ever tried that 🙂

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    • Tricia Buice says

      Hi Bethany – I have not tried freezing the pie so I am not sure. I think the chocolate will get that white edges you sometimes see with frozen chocolate. I guess if I was going to try I would leave the chocolate off for last 🙂 The crust should freeze great. Good luck- let me know how it turns out if you don’t mind! Happy holidays!

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  5. Pam Trull says

    I feel so lucky to have this recipe for my family since this is one of our favorite pie recipe. PLUS we don’t live very far away from the grove park Inn. They have wonderful food, lots of awesome buffet breakfast . Great place to take your Mom on mother’s day or your father on father on father’s day

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  12. Hungry Jenny says

    Oh my gosh, that looks DIVINE! And to think that I used to hate peanut butter – I only got back into eating it about a year ago and keep getting regular cravings for it since! And coupled with choc too? Yum, that's the best!<br /><br />Hungry Jenny x

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  13. Sarah @ The Smart Kitchen says

    I wish you could box THAT up and mail to Texas. :)<br /><br />I think they should change the name of today to "National Everyone Has Off But You, Sarah" day…although since we are using this as our snow make-up day instead of Memorial Day, I'm not complaining…I'd much rather be able to enjoy the kick-off to summer…

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