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, 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!

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.

2-Ingredient Chocolate Ganache

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

1. 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.
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 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:

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:

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 high.
2. 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.
3. Peanut Butter: To make sure a gentle and clean filling, use the traditional, processed form of peanut butter, not pure type.
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 straightforward!

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

And right here’s each bowls mixed:

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.

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.

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:

1. Hershey’s milk chocolate bar
2. 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.

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