What is the secret to a great pie crust?

Cold butter is the key to flaky crusts . Do not skip this step. You must put your butter in the freezer to get it nice and cold. Many people do not like working with frozen butter, but it makes all the difference in the world when you create your pie dough.

What's in the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup pie Blizzard?

REESE'S ® Peanut Butter Cup Pie Blizzard ® Treat This treat mixes creamy, chocolatey Reese's® Peanut Butter Cups and crunchy graham pie crust blended into our smooth, world-famous vanilla soft serve. And yes, of course, there's whipped topping — no pie is complete without it!

How do you get a crispy crust on the bottom of a pie?

Sprinkle dried breadcrumbs or crushed cornflakes, or other types of cereal, on the bottom crust before filling and baking in the oven . The layer will absorb moisture and prevent the filling from turning the crust soggy.

What is the number 2 most important thing when making pie crust?

#2— Add cold water Like the fat, the water should be ice cold. Before you start making the dough, fill a glass with ice and water. Add the ice water gradually to the dough, about one tablespoon or so at a time, and stop when the dough is just moist enough to hold together when a handful is squeezed.

What chocolate is in Reese's peanut butter cups?

The chocolate in Reese cups is a milk chocolate made from Non-fat dry milk and anhydrous milk fat (butter with its water or milk solids removed), sugar from sugar beets, chocolate liquor, lecithin, ethyl vanillin.

Does Dairy Queen use real Reeses?

Reese's ® Extreme Blizzard ® Treat Real pieces of Reese's ® Peanut Butter Cups and Reese's ® Pieces come together in a Blizzard Treat that can only be described with one word: extreme!

What is in the peanut butter pie blizzard at Dairy Queen?

🥧 🎶 The REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Pie BLIZZARD Treat makes a comeback as our BLIZZARD of the month. It has REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups and graham blended into our world-famous DQ soft serve, finished with whipped topping .

What is the most important rule in making a pie crust?

Rule #1: Keep The Fats and Liquids COLD We want the butter cold so when the cold butter hits the hot oven, the water inside the butter rises and evaporates quickly, creating a perfectly layered and flaky crust. A flaky crust starts with cold butter.

Is pie crust better with butter or Crisco?

“ My preferred fat for pie crusts will always be butter . To me, it is all about flavor, and no other fat gives flavor to a crust like butter does. Other fats, even though they have great pros, lack flavor,” De Sa Martins said. “The more flavorful the butter, the more flavor your pie crust will have,” Huntsberger added.

What not to do when making pie crust?

Below are six common mistakes when making a homemade pie crust and some helpful solutions to avoid them. The ingredients are too warm. ... The pie dough is overworked from excessive mixing or rolling. ... The pie dough isn't given enough time to relax and chill. ... The pie dough is shrinking down the sides of the pan. More items... Oct 18, 2022

No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie Recipe - Crazy for Crust (2024)

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The BEST Peanut Butte Pie Recipe is a No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie! This easy peanut butter cheesecake is full of peanut butter cups with a NUTTER BUTTER pie crust!

If you love peanut butter then THIS is the pie for you!

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I originally shared this pie on Crazy for Crust’s 6th birthday. Now we’ve passed 10 years and this is STILL a favorite recipe!

That’s pretty darn special, if you ask me. To celebrate, the occasion needed a special recipe. This pie fits that requirement: it’s a No Bake Peanut Butter Pie that’s no-bake peanut butter cheesecake filled with peanut butter cups all encased in a peanut butter cookie crust and topped with hot fudge and more peanut butter cups.

Say that 3 times fast!

This pie is really the epitome of this blog: it’s easy, it’s got a crust, and it’s damn good.

The Perfect Crust
6 Ingredient Pie Filling
No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie Recipe

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The Perfect Crust

I used my favorite peanut butter cookie crust for this recipe to make it ALL peanut butter. That’s an easy no-bake crust and I love making it instead of buying from the store, because it tastes so much better.

Feel free to use an Oreo or Graham Cracker crust instead any of the three would be fabulous. You can buy one too, if that’s easier.

But if you’re a peanut butter lover like we are, well, there’s no contest.

6 Ingredient Pie Filling

For the filling of the pie you just need 6 things:

Cream Cheese – make sure it’s softened to avoid lumps
Peanut Butter – use any kind, creamy or chunky
Sugar
Vanilla
Whipped Topping – you can use regular or light or fat free
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – lots of them!

I chop up the peanut butter cups and put them in the pie and it makes this one of the best peanut butter pie recipes!

Topping & Storing

You can leave the top plain, or you can use more whipped topping, but I love spreading hot fudge all over the pie and sprinkling it with more peanut butter cups – you can never have too many.

Store the pie in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. You can also freeze it for up to a month. This makes the best ever peanut butter pie recipe – with peanut butter cups!

Other No Bake Pies to try:

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
Twix Pie
Peanut Butter Cheesecake

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No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie

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No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Pie – this easy no bake peanut butter cheesecake is full of peanut butter cups with a NUTTER BUTTER pie crust!

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Chill Time 2 hours hours

Total Time 2 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Yield 8 servings

Serving Size 1 slice

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Ingredients

▢ 1 Nutter Butter Crust Oreo Crust, or Graham Cracker Crust
▢ 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
▢ 1/4 cup granulated sugar
▢ 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
▢ 8 ounces whipped topping or 3 cups freshly whipped cream
▢ 2 cups peanut butter cups chopped divided
▢ Hot fudge ice cream topping optional

Instructions

Beat cream cheese until smooth using a hand mixer. Mix in granulated sugar and peanut butter, then mix in vanilla, beating until smooth and no lumps remain. Fold in the whipped topping, then stir in 1 1/2 cups of the chopped peanut butter cups.
Place filling in prepared pie crust. Sprinkle with remaining chopped peanut butter cups and drizzle with hot fudge ice cream topping. Chill at least 4 hours before cutting and serving.
Pie lasts up to 3 days in the refrigerator or you can freeze it for up to one month.

Recipe Nutrition

Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Author Dorothy Kern

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This easy Peanut Butter Pie Recipe is full of peanut butter cups! It’s a no bake peanut butter cheesecake with a peanut butter crust – and it’s an epic pie recipe.

Last Updated on February 2, 2023