Favorite Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

If you like peanut butter than I know you will enjoy this pie recipe. It is easy to make and will be enjoyed by your family. They will wipe the dessert plate clean and ask for a second slice of pie.

This recipe is from my childhood, my mother loved chocolate and would make scrumptious desserts for me and my siblings when we were kids. We all loved peanut butter and chocolate and her pie recipe combined these two ingredients and golly this pie sure was delicious.  I really enjoyed a slice a pie after playing in the leaf pile in the fall or after sleigh riding in the winter.  It was the perfect comfort food and yes one of my favorite desserts.

 I thought I would always have access to my mom's recipes but when she passed away the recipes went with her because she made everything from memory. Then the other day my brother mentioned that he made chocolate peanut butter pie for his kids and that they all loved it.

When I asked him about the recipe, he told me that it was our mothers and that he had found it in one of her old cookbooks, written in pencil on an index card. I was delighted to know that I could make my mothers pie recipe, the same pie that she made for me when I was a kid.

This pie is very heavy and chocolaty so I always make it in the fall because I think of it as comfort food. You can make it any time during the year but for me, I prefer the fall and winter season.

Here's what you will need to make this delicious pie.

1 eight-ounce package of cream cheese; softened at room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 ¼ cup smooth peanut butter

1 cup confectioner sugar

1 8 ounce container of cool whip 

1 9 inch graham cracker crust pie shell / you can buy the chocolate crust also

½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

3 tablespoons whole milk

1. In a large bowl add the cream cheese, vanilla, and peanut butter and blend together with a mixer.
2. Add the confectioner sugar and mix all ingredients before adding the cool whip topping and blend all ingredients.
3. Pour the pie filling into the graham crust pie shell. Use a spatial to smooth the top of the pie.
4. In a saucepan add 3 tablespoons of the whole milk along with the chocolate chips. Melt the chocolate chips on low heat. Stir the chocolate constantly. When completely melted remove from heat and let cool before drizzling it on the top of the peanut butter pie.
5. Put the pie in the refrigerator for two hours before serving.

Here is another no-bake pie recipe that you may like