Peanut butter pie

Peanut butter pie

 

The crust.

-1 cup graham cookie crumb

-1/4 cup sugar

-1/4 cup melted butter

Mix together and press the crust in 9-inch pie plate.

Refrigirate about 30 minutes.

The peanut butter mousse.

In a food processor

-1/4 cup cream cheese

-2/3 cup sifted confectionners` sugar

-3/4 cup peanut butter

-1/3 cup milk

-1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix together until you obtain a nice and smooth mixture.

Whip 1 cup of whipping cream with a wire whisk or a hand-held electric mixer

until stiff peaks form.

Fold the cream into the peanut butter mixture to make a smooth mousse.

Spoon the mousse in the graham shell and smooth the top with a spatula.

Sprinkle the top with 2 tablespoon of chopped peanuts.

The chocolate sauce for decoration.

-8 tablespoons unsalted butter

-4 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate.

Personnally,I used the chocolate chips.

Warm the butter and the chocolate until it is melted.

Drizzle it free-form from a teaspoon.

Chill the finished pie for at leats 4 hours

before serving or freeze it.

Thaw overnigth in the refrigirator.

For the peanut butter lovers,this mousse makes a wonderful dessert as is.

Just decorated with whipped cream and crushed peanuts.

And why not,drizzle some chocolate sauce over it.

Bon Appétit