Frozen Chocolate-Peanut Butter Pie
- 36 chocolate wafer cookies (8 ounces), broken into pieces, or 1 3/4 cups wafer-cookie crumbs
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 6 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 1/4 cups smooth peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 ounce semisweet chocolate (preferably 55 percent cacao), finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
- Make the crust: Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a food processor, pulse wafers until finely ground.
- In a bowl, combine wafer crumbs, butter, brown sugar, and salt.
- Press mixture firmly into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch pie plate.
- Refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes.
- Bake until set, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Let cool completely on a wire rack.
- Make the filling: With an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, confectioners sugar, and salt until fluffy.
- Beat in peanut butter and vanilla.
- In a chilled bowl, beat cream until soft peaks form.
- Whisk one-third of whipped cream into peanut butter mixture, then gently fold in remaining whipped cream.
- Spoon filling into cooled crust.
- Freeze, uncovered, 4 hours (or up to 1 day, covered with plastic wrap).
- Garnish the pie: Melt chocolate in heatproof bowl set over (not in) a pan of simmering water.
- (Alternatively, you can melt it in the microwave.)
- Transfer melted chocolate to a resealable plastic bag.
- Snip tip from one corner of bag to make a very small opening.
- Holding bag about 5 inches above pie, drizzle melted chocolate over top.
- In a small saucepan over low heat (or in the microwave), melt peanut butter.
- Place in a resealable plastic bag; snip corner, and drizzle in same manner as melted chocolate.
- Let pie stand 10 minutes before slicing.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/frozen-chocolate-peanut-butter-pie-389735 (may not work)