How To Make a Perfect Amish Peanut Butter Cream Pie

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There are many variations on peanut butter pie, some with classic homemade crusts, others with store-bought. Some have chocolate in them so that it's more like a giant Reese's Cup, others are more down-to-earth. But this post will show you how to make an amazing Amish peanut butter pie.

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• 🥧 Cherished Family Amish Peanut Butter Pie Recipe
• 📋 Variations and Suggestions
• 🍫 Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
• 📋 Step By Step Instructions
• 🥧 More Amish Pie Recipes
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🥧 Cherished Family Amish Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

The hallmark of an Amish peanut butter is quality ingredients. Now one wrinkle you'll find in Amish kitchens is a lot of homemade peanut butter from home-ground peanuts. If you can get your hands on homemade peanut butter you'll have a much more authentic pie. You will, however, have to adjust sweetness and texture as you go along. This Amish peanut butter cream recipe is adapted for store-bought peanut butter. Other characteristics of Amish peanut butter pie:

• use fresh, homemade whipped cream instead of Cool Whip if you can
• use whole milk instead of skim
• feel free to make adjustments as you go along, many skilled Amish cooks are versatile and if something isn't sweet enough or is too sweet, they adjust.
• vanilla extract is your friend. This recipe dcoesn't call for any, but add a teaspoon anyway!

I've written before that Yoder's Restaurant in Sarasota, Florida and The Home Place both have SUPERB Peanut Butter Pies from the Amish tradition.

But this recipe is no slouch, I really like it. Like most peanut butter pies, it is a no-bake recipe and no eggs are needed.

This pie has a really smooth, silky texture, very creamy. I love it. I mean, I love peanut butter anyway, so you marry peanut butter with pie and how can you go wrong?

📋 Variations and Suggestions

There is no vanilla extract in this recipe, and I think it would be a nice addition. So feel free to add a teaspoon or two. When you use whole milk, make sure it is cold milk. You get a better result than if you use hot milk. And if you love peanut butter like I do, you can up the amount of peanut butter, a few more tablespoons of peanut butter here and there won't hurt anything.

🍫 Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

Adding a half cup of melted semi-sweet chocolate chips to the pudding part of the recipe is what transforms it from a PB pie to a CPB pie.    I might add a full cup if it were me.   And I might experiment with milk chocolate chips.  But, yeah, this is all pure taste bliss.

Above is what a chocolate peanut butter pie looks like. I didn't make this one, I purchased this one at The Home Place, a Mennonite bakery in Brown County, Ohio, but this is a wonderful variation on a regular peanut butter pie.

📋 Step By Step Instructions

One of the reasons this pie is so popular is that it is so easy. And you can take shortcuts like using a pre-made graham cracker crust instead of a homemade pie crust. Either will work fine. And while homemade whipped cream is always great, no reason you can't use some Cool Whip! Start by making the filling, the delicious peanut butter filling.

Once you have your ingredients in a bowl, you can use a stand mixer, an electric mixer, or an old-fashioned wooden spoon to stir the ingredients.

And after you are done mixing you'll get a delicious, creamy filling like this

How To Make Peanut Butter Crumbles

The crumbles steal the show. I love these crumbles.

1. Using an electric mixer or a wooden spoon, in a medium bowl, add powdered sugar and peanut butter.
2. Mix on medium speed or with your wooden spoon until small peanut butter crumbles start to come together.
3. If the mixture is too powdery, add a few drops of water and larger crumbles will form.
4. Add half the peanut butter crumbles to the bottom of the pie shell.

This is one great Amish peanut butter pie recipe. And if you are a peanut butter lover like I am, this will deliver peanut butter flavor for you!

And then cover those crumbles with the peanut butter filling.

Whipped Topping

1. Top with Cool Whip.
2. Sprinkle top with other half of the remaining peanut butter crumbles.
3. Chill pie in the refrigerator overnight to set before cutting.

🥧 More Amish Pie Recipes

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AMISH SUGAR CREAM PIE 

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AMISH VINEGAR PIE

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