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Monday, May 11, 2020

The Best Easy Peanut Butter Pie

And when I say easy, I really do mean easy.

Like, cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, and Cool Whip kind of easy.

If this combination makes you raise your eyebrows, you’re not wrong. But I wouldn’t lie to you: somehow this gang of ingredients comes together to make a layer of fluffy peanut buttery filling that is pillowy, light, and incredibly rich all at the same time.

It is DANGEROUSLY GOOD.

Now listen up, kids. This is not really a recipe for normal times. Cream cheese, Cool Whip, Oreos… I understand that these are not foods that most of us try to eat on the regular.

But that is exactly what makes this is a 100% perfect recipe for quarantine times. This is a weird version of real life where you just do what you need to do, such as making an easy, totally luscious peanut butter pie just because it’s Tuesday. Or is it Tuesday?

Things are hard, but unfancy peanut butter pie is not. It is comforting and steady and joy-bringing. It will see us through.

The true sign of an unfancy recipe: when it gets shared via text like this.

Let’s walk it out.

First: the crust. Buy one or make one. I like both Oreo crusts and graham cracker crusts, but I like Oreo crusts slightly more.

Mix your filling. Pour it in.

Spread the filling. Chill.

Now slice into that peanut butter pie beauty, put your feet up, and give yourself a MOMENT.

If you are looking for a more fancy but equally as delicious pie, I think you’ll like the mocha peanut butter pie from the archives. But for the rest of us: long live the simple joys!

The Best Easy Peanut Butter Pie

Author: Lindsay
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Yield: 10 slices

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Description

The BEST Easy Peanut Butter Pie! A simple cookie crust under a layer of fluffy peanut buttery filling that is pillowy, light, and incredibly rich all at the same time.

Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
8 ounces whipped topping like Cool Whip
8 ounces cream cheese

Oreo Crust

1 14-ounce package Oreos
5 tablespoons butter, melted

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Instructions

Pulse Oreos in a food processor until crushed into fine crumbs. Add melted butter and stir to combine. Press into a 10-inch pie plate. Freeze while you mix the filling.
Mix all filling ingredients together. Pour into the crust and smooth over the top. Freeze for 3-4 hours until solid.
Slice and serve. Be changed forever.