Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:02am

Ingredients




1 1/4 cups Chocolate cookie crumbs, 20 cookies
1/4 cup Sugar
1/4 cup Butter or margarine, melted
1 pkt Cream cheese, 8 oz, softened
1 cup Creamy peanut butter
1 cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Heavy cream, whipped
Grated chocolate or
Cookie crumbs, optional

Preparation

1 Combine crust ingredients; press into a 9-inch pie plate. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Cool. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, butter and vanilla until smooth. Fold in whipped cream. Gently spoon into crust. Garnish with chocolate or cookie crumbs if desired. 2 Refrigerate. 3 Yield: 8-10 servings 4 NOTES : Use regular pie crust, bake and while warm sprinkle shell with chocolate chips. Substituted lite cool whip for the whipped cream. 5 Excellent