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.
![peanut butter banana cream pie with whipped cream, chocolate curls, and Nutter Butter cookie on top.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/peanut-butter-banana-cream-pie-3.jpg)
There’s no taste duo fairly like peanut butter + chocolate. However peanut butter + banana… deserving of an honorable point out, at the least! Now what about peanut butter + chocolate + banana? One chunk of this taste trio and also you’ll surprise 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 proper 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 attempt it on this pie.
- Whipped Cream & Chocolate Curls: The ending touches for a pie that appears nearly as good because it tastes!
![slice of peanut butter banana cream pie being removed from pie dish.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/peanut-butter-banana-cream-pie.jpg)
Begin With a 2-Ingredient Nutter Butter Cookie Crust
A Nutter Butter is an American peanut butter-flavored sandwich cookie and really the most effective cookies you should utilize for a crumb crust. When 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 way in which, when you love Nutter Butter cookies, attempt 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 staff and I examined completely different ratios of cookie crumbs to butter, and this was by far the very best to supply a thick, crisp crust. Press the combination right into a pie dish and bake for quarter-hour. Now you may flip off the oven—that’s all of the baking this pie will get!
A lot simpler than an everyday pie crust.
![Nutter Butter sandwich cookies and butter on marble counter.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/nutter-butter-cookies-and-butter.jpg)
![cookie crumbs in glass bowl and shown again pressed into pie dish.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/nutter-butter-cookie-crumbs-and-pressed-into-pie-dish.jpg)
2-Ingredient Chocolate Ganache
You additionally solely want 2 elements for the chocolate ganache layer:
- Pure Chocolate: Ensure you use actual, high quality chocolate. I usually use the 4-ounce baking bars discovered within the grocery retailer baking aisle, by Ghirardelli or Baker’s. You need to use high quality chocolate chips as an alternative, however the ganache gained’t be as clean, as chocolate chips have stabilizers in them.
- 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 ensure that it has a minimal of 36% fats content material, in any other case the ganache gained’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 might be very skinny at first, however since chocolate is strong at room temperature, the ganache will thicken because it cools.
Unfold it into your baked crust:
![chocolate ganache in bowl and shown again being spread on Nutter Butter pie crust.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ganache-in-bowl-and-spread-over-pie-crust.jpg)
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 purpose 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 clean and creamy, with the precise steadiness of peanut butter taste that works so effectively with bananas and chocolate.
You want these 5 elements:
- 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 high.
- Cream Cheese: This provides the pie its construction, however we’re not utilizing an excessive amount of right here, so the pie gained’t style like peanut butter-flavored cheesecake. Ensure that to make use of block-style full-fat cream cheese, like we use in pecan pie cheesecake, not the spreadable form within the tub.
- Peanut Butter: To make sure a gentle and clean filling, use the traditional, processed form of peanut butter, not pure type.
- Confectioners’ Sugar: Provides simply the correct amount of sweetness.
- 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 straightforward!
Pictured under, left: Whipped heavy cream. Pictured under, proper: Different filling elements.
![whipped cream in glass bowl and peanut butter cream cheese mixture in separate bowl.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/whipped-cream-and-peanut-butter-filling-in-bowls.jpg)
And right here’s each bowls mixed:
![peanut butter mixture in glass bowl with red spatula.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/creamy-peanut-butter-filling-in-glass-bowl.jpg)
Assembling This Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie
You just about have all the pieces ready by now. Layer banana slices on high of your chocolate ganache, after which unfold the peanut butter filling proper on high. I discover a small offset spatula makes spreading the thick filling straightforward.
![bananas layered on chocolate ganache and pictured again topped with peanut butter filling.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/bananas-chocolate-peanut-butter-filling.jpg)
Now the pie must take a nap within the fridge to arrange, at the least 5–6 hours or in a single day. Like coconut cream pie and blueberry cream pie, it is a great dessert to make forward.
Earlier than serving, high with whipped cream, extra bananas, and any garnishes you need, like Nutter Butter cookies or chocolate curls. I take advantage of the identical offset spatula for the whipped cream, however you might actually pipe it on high as an alternative. The whipped cream makes use of among the identical elements you already want for the opposite layers of the pie.
![spreading whipped cream on peanut butter pie with peanut butter cookie crust.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/spreading-whipped-cream-on-peanut-butter-pie.jpg)
![whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and Nutter Butter cookie on top of banana slices and peanut butter pie.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/peanut-butter-banana-cream-pie-4.jpg)
![slice of pie on plate with layers of chocolate ganache, bananas, peanut butter, and whipped cream with chocolate curls.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/peanut-butter-banana-cream-pie-2.jpg)
Let me rapidly inform you about these chocolate curls…
Learn how to Make Straightforward Chocolate Curls
I child you not, I’ve been attempting work out one of the best ways to make picture-perfect chocolate curls for years. I’ve tried all types of difficult YouTube strategies, and none of them actually labored. The perfect I might handle have been chocolate shavings. Tasty, certain… however not curly!
Then lately, staff member Trina despatched a photograph of the French silk pie she made for a current 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 will have a pencil and paper useful to jot down all of it down? OK, right here’s what you want:
- Hershey’s milk chocolate bar
- Vegetable peeler
…That’s it. LOL.
Merely take a standard-size basic Hershey bar and run your peeler down the aspect of it. These little issues are fragile, so apply them to your desserts rigorously! Take pleasure in.
![slice of peanut butter and banana cream pie with forkful taken out on white plate.](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/banana-peanut-butter-cream-pie.jpg)
Description
This peanut butter banana cream pie begins with a Nutter Butter cookie crumb crust, then 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 earlier than serving.
Nutter Butter Crust
Chocolate Ganache Layer
Bananas & Peanut Butter Filling
Whipped Cream
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C).
- Make the crust: In a meals processor or blender, pulse the entire cookies (cookie AND filling) right into a superb crumb. Stir the cookie crumbs and melted butter collectively, after which pour the combination into an ungreased 9-inch pie dish. With medium strain utilizing your hand, pat the crumbs down into the underside and up the perimeters to make a compact crust. Don’t pack down with heavy drive as a result of that makes the crust too arduous. Merely pat down till the combination is not crumby/crumbly. Bake for quarter-hour. Permit to chill as you put together the remainder.
- Make the chocolate ganache: Place finely chopped chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl. Warmth the cream in a small saucepan over medium warmth till it begins to softly simmer. (Don’t let it come to a fast boil—that’s too sizzling!) Pour over chocolate, then let it sit for two–3 minutes to softly soften the chocolate. With a metallic spoon or small rubber spatula, very slowly stir till chocolate has utterly melted and combination is clean. The finer you chopped the chocolate, the faster it can soften with the cream. If it’s not melting, don’t microwave it. If wanted, see Troubleshooting Chocolate Ganache. As soon as ganache combination is clean, set it apart whilst you make the peanut butter filling.
- Make the filling: Utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the heavy cream on medium-high velocity till stiff peaks kind, about 3–5 minutes. Spoon the whipped cream right into a bowl and put aside. Utilizing the identical mixing bowl (no must rinse clear!), beat the cream cheese, peanut butter, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla extract collectively on medium-high velocity till mixed. Combination might be thick. Fold within the whipped cream till clean. Be mild, you don’t wish to deflate that whipped cream.
- Assemble the pie: Unfold chocolate ganache over the cooled crust. Slice 2 bananas and place the slices in a single layer over the ganache. (The opposite bananas are for topping the pie.) Unfold peanut butter filling evenly on high—the banana slices could transfer round a bit of bit, because the filling is heavy, however take your time and unfold it on in addition to you may.
- Cowl the pie and chill within the fridge for five–6 hours and as much as 1 day.
- Make the whipped cream: Utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the heavy cream, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla on medium-high velocity till stiff peaks kind, about 4–5 minutes.
- Slice 2 remaining bananas and prepare on high of chilled pie. High with whipped cream. See make forward directions under if you wish to enhance with whipped cream prematurely. If making chocolate curls, run a vegetable peeler down the lengthy aspect of a Hershey’s milk chocolate bar. Fastidiously place on high of whipped cream, if desired. Garnish with Nutter Butter cookie, if desired.
- Slice and serve chilly. Retailer leftover pie coated within the fridge for as much as 5 days.
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: This peanut butter banana cream pie might be made as much as 1 day prematurely, up via step 6. Retailer coated within the fridge till able to serve. Earlier than serving, proceed with step 7. You may add whipped cream on high of the pie a number of hours earlier than serving and refrigerate till able to serve, however don’t garnish with bananas on high that far prematurely as a result of they may start to leak moisture and switch brown.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Meals Processor for crust | Pie Dish | Electrical Mixer (Stand Mixer or Handheld) | Small Offset Spatula | Vegetable Peeler for chocolate curls
- Chocolate for Ganache: Actual, high quality chocolate is good for ganache to set correctly. I take advantage of the 4-ounce baking bars discovered within the grocery retailer baking aisle, resembling Ghirardelli or Baker’s manufacturers. When you can’t discover these, you should utilize high-quality semi-sweet chocolate chips as an alternative. See Learn how to Make Chocolate Ganache for extra ideas.
- Peanut Butter: Creamy peanut butter is good for this recipe. I like to recommend utilizing processed peanut butter, resembling Jif or Skippy, slightly than pure peanut butter.
- Alternate Crust Choices: When you can’t discover Nutter Butter cookies, you can also make a graham cracker crust or Oreo crust—with peanut butter-filled Oreos if you’ll find them!
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