Peanut Butter Pie

I love this recipe because it takes absolutely NO cooking (except for the hot fudge) so it is a great recipe for a hot day!

1 chocolate cookie crust (store bought or homemade is good choose your poison)
1 Cup Peanut Butter (I used low sodium natural peanut butter)
1/2 Cup Sugar
8 Ounces Cream Cheese at room temperature (I used low fat low sodium Cream Cheese)
3 Cups Whipped Cream (if you can find the low fat use it)
1 Jar Hot Fudge (I like and use Dark Chocolate when I can Hershey's makes a great one)

In a medium bowl mix peanut butter, cream cheese and sugar.  Mixture whipped cream into peanut butter mix slowly.  The mixture will stiffen a little as the whipped cream is added and become almost a pudding like consistency (a little tougher than that).  Spoon mixture into the pie crust and heat up fudge.  Spread fudge over the top of the pie to the edges of the pie.  Place pie in the refridgerator for at least 2 hours and then enjoy.

Warning: This pie is very rich and should only be enjoyed in small slices.  If you eat a slice that is too large you may experience peanut butter overload, chocolate overdose, and you may never be able to eat another pie again.  No seriously it really is a very rich pie.

Fudge Brownies with melted Peanut Butter Cups

1/2 Cup fake Butter (you can use real butter)
1/4 Cup Unsweetened Powdered Cocoa
2 eggs
1 Cup Sugar
3/4 Cup Wheat Flour
Lastly I had some melted peanut butter cups and I chopped those up (which was messy and oh so tasty) and mixed them in lastly

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a baking dish for brownies.  Some people use different sized so that they end up with different thickness in the brownies.  I used a 9x5 pan that was 2 inches thick and ended up with brownies that were less than an inch thick.  Melt butter and in a large bowl mix butter, powdered cocoa, eggs, and sugar until well mixed.  Slowly add flour 1/4 Cup at a time.  When the flour is well mixed in the batter add the peanut butter cups.  Pour batter into the baking pan and cook for 30 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted and pulled out clean.

These were an experiment for me because I had these melted Peanut Butter cups that I had no idea what to do with.  I was going to make cookies but decided to try something new.  My advice if you make this recipe is make sure that the baking dish is well greased because some of my brownies didn't want to come out of the dish.  Lessons we learn when experimenting with food.