Butterfinger Pie | Cookies and Cups

This Butterfinger Pie is a straightforward dessert that’s loaded with Butterfinger sweet bars and silky, creamy no-bake pie filling. Deal with your self and the household to a slice of indulgent chocolate peanut butter pie!

Do you’re keen on Butterfinger sweet and no-bake desserts? Strive my No-Bake Butterfinger Caramel Bars, too!

The Final Pie for Peanut Butter Lovers

Aren’t Butterfinger bars the most effective? Ask any peanut butter lover. All these layers of peanut butter crisp swaddled in milky chocolate. It’s a dream.

Have you learnt what’s even higher than a single Butterfinger bar? An entire lot of them. Piled into this Butterfinger PIE!

My Butterfinger pie recipe is a traditional (nearly) no-bake dessert. This riff on sweet pie makes use of my Best Graham Cracker Pie Crust, crammed to the brim with a silky-smooth Butterfinger cream filling.

This peanut butter pie is wealthy and decadent, but unbelievably gentle and fluffy. It’s full of sweet bar crunch and tons of peanut butter taste. No surprise it disappears from the pie plate nearly as quick as I can serve it!

What You’ll Want

Right here you’ll discover every little thing you could make your personal Butterfinger pie! Be sure you scroll additional right down to the recipe card for the complete ingredient quantities: 

For the Graham Cracker Crust

• Graham Crackers: Use graham cracker crumbs, or crush up full graham cracker sheets to make the bottom for this easy pie crust.
• Butter: Salted or unsalted, and melted.
• Salt
• Sugar

For the Pie Filling

• Cream Cheese: Use the cream cheese that is available in blocks and never the spreadable tub variety! For a {smooth} filling (and in addition for simpler mixing), take your cream cheese out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature.
• Creamy Peanut Butter: Your favourite model of creamy peanut butter, like Jif or Skippy. Be sure you’re utilizing the creamy variety for the creamiest outcomes! See under.
• Powdered Sugar: You may additionally understand it as confectioner’s sugar. This sweetens up the pie filling whereas the positive consistency retains the feel {smooth}.
• Butterfinger Sweet: I exploit the fun-sized model, however you can additionally use full-sized Butterfingers, as you’ll be chopping them up anyway.
• Cool Whip: For the final word fluff issue! Thaw out an 8 oz. tub of Cool Whip.

For the Garnish

• Whipping Cream: Use chilly heavy whipping cream. To get the feel good, depart it chilled proper up till you utilize it. For greatest outcomes, chill the bowl you’ll use for whipping, too!
• Powdered Sugar
• (Extra) Butterfinger Sweet

What Form of Peanut Butter is Greatest?

You’ll wish to persist with the shelf-stable, creamy number of peanut butter for this recipe. I undoubtedly don’t advocate pure peanut butter for Butterfinger pie. The surplus oils in pure peanut butter can mess with the feel and trigger issues to separate. We’re after silky {smooth}, mousse-like pie filling right here, associates!

Methods to Make Butterfinger Pie

Selfmade Butterfinger pie is a 3-step surprise! It’s principally a matter of crust, pie filling, and garnish. The result’s an actual showstopper which you could have prepared with minimal prep and a little bit of chilling time:

Make the Crust: Get that oven preheated to 350°F. In the meantime, combine your graham cracker crumbs, butter, sugar, and salt collectively in a bowl. Press the crust combination right into a 9-inch pie plate, then bake till golden. You’ll have to let your crust cool utterly earlier than you assemble the pie.

Put together the Filling: Is that crust good and funky? Good! Subsequent, you’ll beat collectively the cream cheese, peanut butter, and powdered sugar. Fold in your chopped Butterfingers, adopted by the Cool Whip.

Assemble: Plop the filling into your cooled crust and unfold it evenly inside. Place the pie into the fridge to relax for not less than 2 hours.

Garnish: As soon as the pie is chilled, you possibly can serve it as is, however I choose to pile on the garnish. Prime your Butterfinger pie with further Cool Whip or whipped cream, plus much more chopped Butterfinger sweet.

Suggestions for Success

In terms of the most effective Butterfinger pie, listed below are some ideas that make this recipe a breeze:

• Use Retailer Purchased Crust: The pie crust recipe is tremendous easy. Nonetheless, should you’re in a rush, a store-bought, ready-made graham cracker crust will do exactly positive for a 100% no-bake dessert.
• Make the Crust In a Meals Processor: When you have a blender or meals processor available, making the pie crust is that a lot simpler. Merely mix the crust components within the processor and mix them along with a couple of fast pulses.
• Warmth the Knife For Slicing: To maintain the pie from sticking to the knife once you slice it, heat the knife first. Run it below sizzling water and wipe off the knife with a paper towel between slices to maintain the pie edges good and clear.

Variation Concepts

This Butterfinger pie is simply as simple to customise as it’s to make! Check out a number of of those yummy variation concepts:

• Use Selfmade Whipped Cream: Cool Whip is a fuss-free shortcut to make use of within the pie filling. After all, should you’re whipping cream from scratch for the garnish, be at liberty to make further do-it-yourself whipped cream to make use of within the filling as properly. As talked about earlier, ensure to make use of a calming steel bowl and chilly whipping cream for the most effective outcomes.
• Use Totally different Sweet: Can’t get your fingers on Butterfingers? This peanut butter pie seems simply as tasty made with one other peanut butter sweet, like Reese’s Cups. Or, attempt chopping up Snickers bars as an alternative! For those who’d choose to depart the sweet out altogether, you possibly can all the time add chopped peanuts as an alternative.
• Use a Chocolate Crust: Generally, once I’m feeling further indulgent, I’ll borrow the chocolate Oreo pie crust from my Chocolate Candy Pie recipe!
• Drizzle With Chocolate: For a fudgy twist, give your pie a drizzle of Pourable Chocolate Ganache. You may as well attempt it with Homemade Caramel Sauce!
• Sprinkle With Sea Salt: Y’all know I really like the addition of sea salt in desserts like cookies and peanut brittle. Why not sprinkle the highest of this Butterfinger pie with sea salt for a scrumptious candy and salty combo?
• Use Chunky Peanut Butter: I’m a fan of the ultra-smooth, mousse-y filling on this recipe. However should you’re after one thing with extra crunch, go proper forward and use shelf-stable chunky peanut butter as an alternative!
• Add Crushed Cookies: Take inspiration from my Nutter Butter Pie and toss in crushed peanut butter cookies! 
• Use a Sq. Pan: Make no-bake Butterfinger pie bars in an 8×8-inch sq. baking dish. I like to recommend lining the pan with foil and giving it a coating of cooking spray beforehand.

Storage Directions

Retailer your pie chilled within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Be sure you’re sealing your Butterfinger pie in an hermetic container or wrapping it tightly in plastic wrap to maintain the flavors intact.

Can I Freeze This?

For those who make your pie with Cool Whip, it may be frozen for as much as 1 month. Retailer the pie hermetic in a freezer-safe container, or wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Let it sit out for a couple of minutes once you’re able to serve it, to melt it up once more.

Notice that Butterfinger pie that’s made with traditional do-it-yourself whipped cream, nonetheless, will not freeze properly because the whipped cream might separate as soon as it’s thawed. 

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