Chilled peanut butter cream filling in a chocolate cookie crust, topped with chopped peanut butter cups.
Shortcut: use a store-bought chocolate cookie crust and skip baking. Freeze the peanut butter cups 10 minutes before chopping.
Keeps 4 days covered in the fridge and freezes well. Add the topping just before serving so the candy stays crunchy.
Ingredients
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- 1 ½ cup chocolate cookie crumbs
- 5 tbsp unsalted butter
- 8 oz cream cheese
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup chopped peanut butter cups for the filling
- ¼ cup chopped peanut butter cups for the topping
Ingredients
Scale
Measurement units
- 1 ½ cup chocolate cookie crumbs
- 5 tbsp unsalted butter
- 8 oz cream cheese
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup chopped peanut butter cups for the filling
- ¼ cup chopped peanut butter cups for the topping
Instructions
Make the crust
Heat the oven to 350°F.
Chop the peanut butter cups into small pieces.
Stir chocolate cookie crumbs (1 ½ cup) with unsalted butter (5 tbsp) until evenly moistened.
Press into the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie plate.
Equipment: 9-inch pie plate
Bake and cool the crust
Bake the crust about 8 minutes, until set and fragrant.
Cool completely on a rack, about 30 minutes.
Make the filling
Beat cream cheese (8 oz), creamy peanut butter (¾ cup) and powdered sugar (1 cup) until smooth.
In a separate cold bowl, whip heavy cream (1 cup) with vanilla extract (1 tsp) to stiff peaks.
Fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter mixture in two additions.
Fold in chopped peanut butter cups for the filling (¾ cup) and spread into the cooled crust.
Chill
Chill at least 4 hours, until the filling is set.
Top and serve
Just before serving, scatter chopped peanut butter cups for the topping (¼ cup) on top.
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Cook notes
- • Shortcut: use a store-bought chocolate cookie crust and skip baking.
- • Freeze the peanut butter cups 10 minutes before chopping.
- • Add the topping just before serving so the candy stays crunchy.
- • Keeps 4 days covered in the fridge and freezes well.
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