My hubby loves peanut butter. My hubby loves chocolate.
My hubby loves peanut butter and chocolate!
To make him a happy pappy, I combined two of his favorites to make a pie.
Now, I surely can’t take all the credit for this delish pie. No, it goes to my favorite blogging chef of all time….The Pioneer Woman!
I would normally never use a new recipe on guests, without trying it out on my family first, but with her recipes, I never have to worry.
I have on more than one occasion used a recipe from her site on guests for the first time, and I have not been disappointed.
She has this recipe for chocolate pie that I have been making for several years now, and every time I make it, people just rave over it.
Since my hubby loves chocolate and peanut butter, I decided to take her recipe and “tweak” it to satisfy my hubby..:)
If you’d prefer to go without the peanut butter, then by all means stick to her recipe, and you’ll find it here. It is amazing all by itself!!!
I really like to make this pie on special holidays, like Easter, Christmas and of course hubby’s birthday.
Let’s get started….
Ingredients
- 4 ounces, weight semi-sweetened Baking Chocolate ( I use "Bakers" squares)
- 1 cup Salted Butter, Softened
- 1-½ cup Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 4 whole Eggs
- 1 package Baked Pie Shell
- 1/4 peanut butter, creamy
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a micro safe bowl for about 45 secs to a minute.
- Once the chocolate is melted and cooled, drizzled it into the butter/sugar mixture and continue mixing.
- Next, add the vanilla.
- Now here's where is becomes time consuming, but worth it.
- Add 1 egg to the mixer and beat on med-high speed for 5 minutes, scrape down.
- Add another egg to the mixer, beat for 5 minutes, scrape down
- Add another egg to the mixer, beat for 5 minutes, scrape down
- Add another egg to the mixer, beat for 5 minutes, scrape down.
- At this point you should have added 4 eggs over the period of 20 minutes.
- You will notice how the eggs did an emulsion thingy.
- Pour the chocolate mix into a baked pie shell.
- Now...take the peanut butter and micro for 30 secs till melted. Drizzle the melted peanut butter over the chocolate.
- Then using a butter knife swirl it into the chocolate till it is no longer visible.
- Pop it in the fridge and let it get nice and chilled. When you're ready to serve it, whip up some heavy whipping cream or use the can stuff.
My hubby loves chocolate and peanut butter too, will have to give this a try.
Thanks so much for sharing at AMAZE ME MONDAY!
Blessings,
Cindy