Peanut Butter Pie with Pretzel Crust

If you’re like me, you love peanut butter. Not only do I love peanut butter but I love desserts that have peanut butter in the ingredients. If you want to make a dessert that will certainly raise your blood sugar, than keep reading.

This dessert has many personal touches. You can change almost any ingredient or combination of ingredients to fit your tastes.

Starting with the crust, you can choose to make it out of pretzels or gram crackers or you can do what I did and make it out of both. I added some chocolate sprinkles (jimmies) for all those chocolate lovers.

For the filling, you can choose store bought Cool Wip instead of mixing the heavy cream. You can even add chocolate syrup in the mixing if you choose. The possibilities are endless.

To make the crust:
5 cups total pretzels and gram crackers combined (after crushed)
2 tablespoons sugar
¾ cup chocolate sprinkles (jimmies)
1-1 ½ (2-3 sticks) cups of melted butter

Directions:
Mix pretzels and/or gram crackers in a food processor until crushed. (you can also put them in a plastic bag and crush them if you would rather not use a food processor)
In a large bowl add 5 cups of your crushed pretzels/gram crackers.
Mix in butter a half cup (1 stick) at a time until mixture stays together when squeezed.
If too dry add more butter a little at a time.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Line a 10 inch springform pan with the crust pressing all the way up the sides.
Bake on middle rack for 10-15 minutes until the crust darkens a bit. Longer for thicker crusts. (Tip: place a baking sheet on the bottom rack under the pan to catch any dripping butter)
Let cool.

To make the filling:
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1-8oz package of cream cheese (softened)
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup confectionary sugar
14 oz sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Whisk heavy cream for about 10-15 minutes until it forms stiff peaks. Then set aside.
2. Blend cream cheese and peanut butter until well combined.
3. Add confectionary sugar slowly to the mixture.
4. Add sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract to the mixture and combine.
5. Mix in whipped cream that you set aside earlier. Be sure to scrape down the sides occasionally.
6. When your crust has cooled completely, pour filling into crust.
7. Top with Reese’s Pieces then freeze for 3-4 hours before serving. Keep in the springform pan until frozen.

I hope you enjoyed this and be sure to let me know what ingredients you decided to use to make yours.

As always you can see how I made mine here:

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