Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie

Peanut butter banana cream pie is a deliciously indulgent dessert, and a peanut butter lover’s dream. You’re utilizing Nutter Butter cookies for the crumb crust, and piling on layers of wealthy chocolate ganache, candy banana slices, creamy peanut butter mousse, and fluffy whipped cream. You can also make this dessert forward of time, and add the toppings near or simply earlier than serving.

There’s no taste duo fairly like peanut butter + chocolate. However peanut butter + banana… deserving of an honorable point out, not less than! Now what about peanut butter + chocolate + banana? One chunk of this taste trio and also you’ll marvel why you ever stopped at 2 flavors to start with! 😉

So Many Layers to Love

• Nutter Butter Crust: Crispy, peanutty (that’s a phrase, proper?), and buttery, this cookie crumb crust is the right base for a peanut butter banana cream pie.
• Chocolate Ganache: A wealthy and soft-set chocolate layer, made out of simply 2 elements.
• Banana Slices: Layered in and on the pie, identical to we do for banana cream pie.
• Peanut Butter Cream Filling: With its mousse-like texture, this peanut butter pie filling is a reader—and private—favourite. Can’t wait so that you can strive it on this pie.
• Whipped Cream & Chocolate Curls: The ending touches for a pie that appears nearly as good because it tastes!

Begin With a 2-Ingredient Nutter Butter Cookie Crust

A Nutter Butter is an American peanut butter-flavored sandwich cookie and really among the best cookies you need to use for a crumb crust. In case you can’t discover Nutter Butters, you can also make an everyday graham cracker crust, Oreo crust, or peanut butter Oreo crust, like on this peanut butter pie. (By the best way, in case you love Nutter Butter cookies, strive my do-it-yourself peanut butter cookie sandwiches!)

Use a meals processor to grind 20 Nutter Butter cookies into crumbs, then stir in 4 Tablespoons of melted butter. My group and I examined totally different ratios of cookie crumbs to butter, and this was by far one of the best to supply a thick, crisp crust. Press the combination right into a pie dish and bake for quarter-hour. Now you possibly can flip off the oven—that’s all of the baking this pie will get!

A lot simpler than an everyday pie crust.

2-Ingredient Chocolate Ganache

You additionally solely want 2 elements for the chocolate ganache layer:

1. Pure Chocolate: Be sure you use actual, high quality chocolate. I sometimes use the 4-ounce baking bars discovered within the grocery retailer baking aisle, by Ghirardelli or Baker’s. You should utilize high quality chocolate chips as a substitute, however the ganache received’t be as easy, as chocolate chips have stabilizers in them.
2. Heavy Cream: This can be referred to as by one other title the place you might be, like heavy whipping cream or double cream. Simply be sure it has a minimal of 36% fats content material, in any other case the ganache received’t arrange fairly as effectively.

Warmth the cream on the stovetop, pour over finely chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl, let sit for a couple of minutes, after which slowly stir till the chocolate has all melted. The ganache will probably be very skinny at first, however since chocolate is stable at room temperature, the ganache will thicken because it cools.

Unfold it into your baked crust:

Make Your Peanut Butter Cream Filling

As a result of banana cream pie is made with a do-it-yourself vanilla pudding, I first tried making a peanut butter model. It turned out… very unappetizing, to say the least. There’s apparently a motive you don’t see many recipes for peanut butter pudding pies. I can’t determine one out!

So let’s go along with what we all know is probably the most scrumptious peanut butter pie filling—it’s easy and creamy, with the best steadiness of peanut butter taste that works so effectively with bananas and chocolate.

You want these 5 elements:

1. Heavy Cream: We’ll whip this by itself first, and fold it in final. How handy you additionally want this ingredient for the ganache AND the whipped cream on prime.
2. Cream Cheese: This offers the pie its construction, however we’re not utilizing an excessive amount of right here, so the pie received’t style like peanut butter flavored cheesecake. Make sure that to make use of block-style full-fat cream cheese, like we use in pecan pie cheesecake, not the spreadable variety within the tub.
3. Peanut Butter: To make sure a tender and easy filling, use the standard, processed form of peanut butter, not pure model.
4. Confectioners’ Sugar: Provides simply the correct amount of sweetness.
5. Vanilla Extract: Enhances the general taste.

By whipping the cream after which folding it into the remainder of the filling combination, it makes for an nearly mousse-like texture. Attempt to maintain again on simply consuming this with a spoon… it’s not simple!

Pictured beneath, left: Whipped heavy cream. Pictured beneath, proper: Different filling elements.

And right here’s each bowls mixed:

Assembling This Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie

You just about have all the things ready by now. Layer banana slices on prime of your chocolate ganache, after which unfold the peanut butter filling proper on prime. I discover a small offset spatula makes spreading the thick filling simple.

Now the pie must take a nap within the fridge to arrange, not less than 5-6 hours or in a single day. Like coconut cream pie and blueberry cream pie, this can be a great dessert to make forward.

Earlier than serving, prime with whipped cream, extra bananas, and any garnishes you need, like Nutter Butter cookies or chocolate curls. I exploit the identical offset spatula for the whipped cream, however you would actually pipe it on prime as a substitute. The whipped cream makes use of among the similar elements you already want for the opposite layers of the pie.

Let me rapidly inform you about these chocolate curls…

The best way to Make Straightforward Chocolate Curls

I child you not, I’ve been attempting determine the easiest way to make picture-perfect chocolate curls for years. I’ve tried every kind of sophisticated YouTube strategies, and none of them actually labored. One of the best I might handle have been chocolate shavings. Tasty, certain… however not curly!

Then just lately, group member Trina despatched a photograph of the French silk pie she made for a latest spherical of recipe testing, and my very first thought was: How did you make these excellent chocolate curls?

Are you prepared for the trick to beautiful chocolate spirals? Do you’ve gotten a pencil and paper useful to jot down all of it down? OK, right here’s what you want:

1. Hershey’s milk chocolate bar
2. Vegetable peeler

…That’s it. LOL.

Merely take a standard-size traditional Hershey bar and run your peeler down the facet of it. These little issues are fragile, so apply them to your desserts fastidiously! Get pleasure from.

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