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? Attempt my No-Bake Butterfinger Caramel Bars, too!

The Final Pie for Peanut Butter Lovers

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

Are you aware 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 crammed with 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 part you might want to make your individual Butterfinger pie! Remember to scroll additional right down to the recipe card for the total 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 straightforward 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 form! For a {smooth} filling (and likewise 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. Ensure you’re utilizing the creamy form for the creamiest outcomes! See beneath.
• Powdered Sugar: You may additionally realize it as confectioner’s sugar. This sweetens up the pie filling whereas the high quality consistency retains the feel {smooth}.
• Butterfinger Sweet: I take advantage of the fun-sized model, however you would additionally use full-sized Butterfingers, as you’ll be chopping them up anyway.
• Cool Whip: For the last 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 excellent, 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 keep on with the shelf-stable, creamy number of peanut butter for this recipe. I positively 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, pals!

The way to Make Butterfinger Pie

Do-it-yourself Butterfinger pie is a 3-step surprise! It’s principally a matter of crust, pie filling, and garnish. The result’s an actual showstopper that you may 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 sit back for a minimum of 2 hours.

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

Suggestions for Success

In terms of one of the best Butterfinger pie, listed here are some suggestions that make this recipe a breeze:

• Use Retailer Purchased Crust: The pie crust recipe is tremendous easy. Nonetheless, if you happen to’re in a rush, a store-bought, ready-made graham cracker crust will just do high quality for a 100% no-bake dessert.
• Make the Crust In a Meals Processor: When you’ve got 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 number of fast pulses.
• Warmth the Knife For Slicing: To maintain the pie from sticking to the knife while you slice it, heat the knife first. Run it below scorching 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 Do-it-yourself Whipped Cream: Cool Whip is a fuss-free shortcut to make use of within the pie filling. In fact, if you happen to’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 effectively. As talked about earlier, ensure that to make use of a relaxing steel bowl and chilly whipping cream for one of the best outcomes.
• Use Completely 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, strive chopping up Snickers bars as a substitute! Should you’d choose to go away the sweet out altogether, you may all the time add chopped peanuts as a substitute.
• 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 strive it with Homemade Caramel Sauce!
• Sprinkle With Sea Salt: Y’all know I 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 if you happen to’re after one thing with extra crunch, go proper forward and use shelf-stable chunky peanut butter as a substitute!
• 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. Ensure 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?

Should you 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 while 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 effectively because the whipped cream might separate as soon as it’s thawed. 

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