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Grandma Beatty’s Peanut Butter Pie

Sheila
Creamy homemade pudding with delicious crunchy peanut butter layers, topped with whipped topping and more peanut butter crumbles.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Course Dessert
Cuisine Dessert
Servings 8

Equipment

  • pie dish 9"

Ingredients
  

Pudding

  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Egg Yolks
  • 2 cups Whole Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon Butter room tempurature

Peanut Butter Crumble

  • 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Chunky Peanut Butter

Whipped Topping

  • 1 1/2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 2 teaspoons Sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Prepare pastry crust by rolling out and placing in a 9 inch pie dish, crimp edges and prick bottom with fork, bake in a 350 degree oven for 25 minutes. If you decide to use a store bought graham cracker crust, well then of course you can skip this step all together and move on to the pudding!

Pudding

  • Combine sugar, flour, and salt in a microwave safe bowl. In a separate bowl whisk together egg yolks and milk, add to the dry ingredients and whisk until smooth. Place bowl in microwave and cook pudding on high for 3 minutes, remove and whisk. Repeat this step 4-5 times until pudding is smooth and thick. Set aside.

Peanut Butter Crumbles

  • In a separate bowl combine powdered sugar and peanut butter with a fork until crumbly. Set aside.
  • Sprinkle sugar and vanilla over heavy whipping cream in a mixing bowl whip on high speed with beaters until stiff peaks form.
  • Pie Assembly: After crust and pudding have cooled to room temperature take 3/4 of the peanut butter crumble and sprinkle it over the bottom of the crust, cover with pudding top with whipping cream and sprinkle with remaining crumble for garnish. Store in refrigerate until chilled through.

Notes

Note: Because I always prefer homemade I have changed this recipe by making the pudding homemade, however Grandma Beatty always used cooked Jell-O vanilla pudding from a box, and pre-made pie shell whether it be pastry or graham cracker crust depended on what was on sale. It really is pretty darn good either way. I say go the simpler route if that is all you have time and energy for!
Keyword peanut butter, pie, pudding, whipped topping
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