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 like 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 one of the best? 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 basic (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 mild 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 part that you must make your personal Butterfinger pie! Remember to 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 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 type! 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. Be sure to’re utilizing the creamy type for the creamiest outcomes! See beneath.
• Powdered Sugar: You might also understand it as confectioner’s sugar. This sweetens up the pie filling whereas the nice consistency retains the feel {smooth}.
• Butterfinger Sweet: I exploit the fun-sized model, however you might 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 finest outcomes, chill the bowl you’ll use for whipping, too!
• Powdered Sugar
• (Extra) Butterfinger Sweet

What Type of Peanut Butter is Greatest?

You’ll need to follow the shelf-stable, creamy number of peanut butter for this recipe. I undoubtedly don’t suggest 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!

How one can 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 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 must let your crust cool fully 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 favor to pile on the garnish. Prime your Butterfinger pie with further Cool Whip or whipped cream, plus much more chopped Butterfinger sweet.

Ideas for Success

In relation to one of the best Butterfinger pie, listed here are some ideas that make this recipe a breeze:

• Use Retailer Purchased Crust: The pie crust recipe is tremendous easy. Nonetheless, for those who’re in a rush, a store-bought, ready-made graham cracker crust will just do nice 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 elements within the processor and mix them along with just a few 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 underneath 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 straightforward 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, for those who’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 nicely. As talked about earlier, ensure to make use of a calming steel bowl and chilly whipping cream for one of the best 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 a substitute! If you happen to’d favor to depart the sweet out altogether, you may all the time add chopped peanuts as a substitute.
• Use a Chocolate Crust: Typically, 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 can even attempt 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 for those who’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. Be sure to’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?

If you happen to 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.

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

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