Showing posts with label peanut butter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peanut butter. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Sweet and salty chocolate peanut butter pie




Serves 6-8

For the crust:

125g digestive biscuits, finely ground
5 tablespoons caster sugar
85g salted butter, melted

For the filling:

1 cup chunky peanut butter (I use a good quality one with no other ingredients except for a bit of salt)
85g Philadelphia cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 tablespoons icing sugar *
* Add as much as you like to your own taste. As I used a good quality peanut butter, I had to use about 2-3 tablespoons to sweeten - if you're using brands like Skippy, you may not need that much as it's pretty sweet already

For the topping:

230g (8 ounces) good quality semisweet chocolate, chopped or broken into pieces
1 cup/300ml heavy cream
1/4 cup salted roasted peanuts, roughly chopped

For the crust:

1) Preheat the oven to 190C.

2) In a food processor, blitz the biscuit, sugar and butter. (You can crush the biscuits by hand too)

3) Press it out onto a greased 9 inch tart pan with removable base, and bake for 7 minutes. Leave to cool. (You can also leave it in the fridge or freezer to chill, but I prefer to bake).

For the filling:

4) Mix all the ingredients for the filling. I used the food processor but you can do it by hand too. Spread it on the cooled crust. Mine was a bit doughy so it was easy to press out with my fingers.

For the topping:

5) Heat the heavy cream in a saucepan till it's simmering, and pour it over the chocolate. ( I sweetened my chocolate with a bit of icing sugar but if yours is sweet enough then there's no need) Mix till it's combined.

6) Pour the chocolate over the filling and sprinkle the chopped peanuts on the top.

7) Chill in the fridge, uncovered for at least 3 hours. Then remove the rim and base of the tart pan carefully with a palette knife.

8) Serve chilled.



Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Chocolate peanut butter pie


For the base:
300g Digestive biscuits
100g melted butter (I used salted)

300g silken tofu
About 1/2 - 3/4 cup chunky peanut butter (depending on how much peanut butter you like! You can use smooth if you want too.)
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon soy sauce
pinch of salt
Chopped nuts to garnish ( I used pistachios)

1. Crush the biscuits till they resemble breadcrumbs and mix with the melted butter.

2. Press it into a pie tin (mine was about 9.5 inches), and also along the sides.

3. Chuck it in the freezer and forget about it for a while.

4. In a food processor, blitz the tofu till it's smooth. Then add the honey, cocoa powder, extra virgin olive oil, soy and salt. Give it another whiz.

5. By the time you finish this, your crust will have hardened a little. Smear your peanut butter carefully all along the bottom and sides.

6. Add the chocolate mixture and sprinkle the nuts.

7. Put it in the fridge to set for a few hours.