Peanut Butter Pie With Chocolate Ganache
- Crust
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, melted
- Filling
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- 1 cup smooth peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons soft butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup icing sugar (no lumps)
- Topping
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate (usually imported)
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- Garnish
- 6 miniature peanut butter cups, halved
- Preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
- Make crust first.
- In a small bowl, combine crumbs and melted butter and then pat into a 9" pie plate.
- Bake until firm and solid; 8 minutes.
- Let cool.
- Now make filling.
- In medium-sized bowl, whip cream.
- Place in fridge until you need it.
- Now, in a large bowl, beat softened cream cheese until fluffy.
- Next, beat in peanut butter, then butter and vanilla.
- Beat in icing sugar until nice and fluffy.
- Retrieve whipping cream from fridge.
- Fold about one-quarter of the cream into mixture to lighten it up, then fold in remainder of cream.
- Use a light hand-- but you don't want any streaks of cream to show either.
- Fill baked crust with peanut butter mixture.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until it firms up, about 3 hours.
- To make chocolate ganache topping, finely chop chocolate bar (you can substitute 6 squares of semisweet bakers chocolate) and place in a small bowl.
- In a small pot, heat cream just until bubbles form.
- Pour over chocolate and stir until chocolate melts.
- Let cool, then spread over pie.
- Take the 12 miniature-peanut-butter-cup halves and arrange them evenly around the edge of the pie.
- I tilt them so the inside shows.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving; I always make this a day ahead.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/peanut-butter-pie-with-chocolate-ganache-12946 (may not work)