Peanut Butter Pie

I love chocolate and peanut butter. I like pie. Therefore, I should like a peanut butter pie. So should you.

Vintage Peanut Butter Pie
from Tasty Kitchen

1 whole prebaked pie crust
8 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup creamy peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup whipping cream
8 oz semi-sweet chocolate
4 Tbsp hot brewed coffee
2 Tbsp heavy cream

1. Prepare the prebaked pie crust.
   
2. Combine the cream cheese, sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla. Beat until smooth and fully incorporated. Whip the whipping cream and fold it into the peanut butter mixture. By adding 1/4 of the whipping cream to begin with, the ingredients will be easier to combine Take care not to deflate the whipping cream. Pour the filling into the cooled pie crust, smooth the top and chill in the fridge for about an hour.
3. Break up the semi-sweet chocolate and pour in the hot coffee. Let the coffee melt the chocolate before adding the heavy cream. Stir until smooth and pour evenly over the entire pie. Chill the pie for an additional 3 hours. Serve cold.

The peanut butter layer in the pie crust. I used a regular pie crust so that I could practice making pie crust. This would be just as good with a chocolate graham cracker or Oreo crust.
The chocolate layer. It's so pretty and smells delicious!
The final product: decadent and wonderful. As you can see from the picture, it doesn't cut into nice, pretty slices, but it tastes so good that it doesn't matter. I say that even after going to all the effort of making the pie crust too. This pie is really, really good. The peanut butter layer is smooth and delicious (although with peanut butter and cream cheese, how could it not be?) and the top layer adds just enough chocolate to finish it off.