Peanut Buttercup Pie

Total Time: 34 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 5 tablespoons of melted butter
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 4 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons salted peanuts, chopped (reserve 1 teaspoon for plate decoration)
• 1 teaspoon salted peanuts, chopped (reserve 1 teaspoon for plate decoration)
• whipped cream
• purchased chocolate sauce, place in a squeeze bottle
• chocolate powder such as ghirardelli chocolate sweet ground chocolate and cocoa
• confectioners sugar

Recipe

• 1 pie shell: preheat oven to 350ã‚â°f
• 2 using a fork, stir together the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter and sugar.
• 3 with the back of a spoon, press the mixture into a 9" pie pan. bake for about 8-9 minutes. set aside to cool.
• 4 filling: place peanut butter, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. using an electric mixer, beat until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the bowl if necessary. set aside.
• 5 in a separate chilled bowl, whip heavy cream until almost stiff. fold a few spoonfuls of whipped cream into peanut butter mixture, then fold in remaining whipped cream, mixing well. place in the prepared pie shell, making sure to smooth top of pie.
• 6 refrigerate for several hours.
• 7 chocolate ganache topping :.
• 8 chop semisweet chocolate into small pieces.
• 9 place whipping cream in saucepan and bring to a boil.
• 10 remove the saucepan from heat and add chocolate. set aside for a few minutes. stir until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth.
• 11 let cool a few more minutes before pouring over the cooled prepared pie.
• 12 spread chocolate ganache over top of the pie leaving about a 1 inch border of peanut butter filling showing through.
• 13 sprinkle ganache with 2 tablespoons of chopped peanuts. refrigerate overnight.
• 14 to serve: decorate the plate with a few swirling lines of chocolate sauce. top with a slice of pie. garnish the top of the pie with whipped cream and dust with chocolate powder and confectioners sugar. sprinkle the plate with the 1 teaspoon of reserved peanuts.
• 15 store any remaining pie in the refrigerator.