Wow: CHOCOLATE Peanut Butter Pie

By Kevin Williams

I thought life couldn't get any better than peanut butter pie and then along comes chocolate peanut butter pie, which is a bit like a Reese's cup in a crust.  One of the things I was most excited about doing when I visited the Home Place last week in Brown County, Ohio was buying a peanut butter pie.  This is an amazing pie, amazing recipe.  Susan Schlabach is related to the late Amanda Yoder who created the famous peanut butter pie recipe served at Yoder's Restaurant in Sarasota, Florida.  You can only get that pie two places:  Yoder's and The Home Place.   Nothing was going to stop me from getting my hands on a peanut butter pie.  Until I saw a chocolate peanut butter pie.

So, I had to go for that.  And I'm glad I did because it was as good as I expected, although, I will say that I love just pure peanut butter.  If I had to choose between the chocolate peanut butter and just the peanut butter, I'm not sure which I'd pick.  They are both incredible, it just depends on whether you are in it for the pure peanutty bliss or whether you want a little chocolate added to it.  So I'll leave that decision up to you (and if that is the toughest decision you have in your life now, I want your life!)

Adding semi-sweet chocolate chips to the hot pudding part of the recipe is what transforms it from a PB pie to a CPB pie.   The recipe says ½ cup, but you can experiment here.  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.

Look at this masterpiece: Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie!

CHOCOLATE Peanut Butter Pie

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Ingredients

  

• 3 inch pie crust baked
• 3 cups whipped cream
• Pudding
• 1 cup cold milk
• ½ cup cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 egg yolks
• 3 cups milk
• 3 teaspoon butter/margerine
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ cup chocolate chips
• Crumb Mixture
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• ½ cup crunchy peanut butter
• 2 teaspoon cocoa powder

Instructions

 

• To make pudding:
• Mix corn starch, salt, 1 cup milk, egg yolks and vanilla with a wire wisk and set aside.
• Heat 3 cups milk, butter and sugar until scalding, stirring constanty. Add cornstarch mixture to hot milk while stirring with whisk. Cook until thickened. Remove from heat before boiling. Stir in chocolate chips while the mixture is still hot.
• Place pudding in refridgerator to chill. Stir every 10 minutes.
• To make crumbs:
• Mix powdered sugar, cocoa, and peanut butter until small crumbs form (with mixer).
• Place ½ crumbs into pie shell. Spoon pudding onto crumbs. Place remaining crumbs on top of pudding, reserving a little for the topping. Top with whipped cream (homemade is best, but cool whip will work).

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