Okay, really now. When you look at the title of this dessert, how can you go wrong? It's peanut butter, and it's ice cream, and it's PIE. What's not to love? Well I am delighted to inform you that the Peanut Butter-Ice Cream Pie (p468) is a little round chunk of luscious peanut buttery ice creamy love.
Despite its simplicity, I did end up with a few changes. One by design, the other two by necessity. The recipe calls for "vegan chocolate cookie crumbs," but when I went to purchase these I realized I didn't exactly know what that was. Graham cracker crumbs, even vegan ones, are widely available, but I've never seen chocolate cookie crumbs. Can't exactly say I've ever sought them out, but this time I did, and there were none. I considered getting some plain chocolate cookies (such as Cat Cookies from Trader Joe's) and processing them into crumbs, but I wasn't at TJ's and couldn't find a comparable substitute. Then I came across a Wholly Wholesome Chocolate Pie Crust and decided to go with that. The other changes came about because the store was out of plain vanilla ice cream, so I went with one pint of Turtle Mountain/Purely Decadent's Dulce de Leche and one pint of their coconut milk vanilla bean. This worked out fine and did not impart a coconut flavor that I could detect. But even if it had, that wouldn't have been a bad thing.
I cannot adequately explain how easy this is to put together. No one could mess it up! And imagine how impressed your friends and family will be when you serve them ICE CREAM PIE. You've baked nothing, you've mixed a few things, and you have an impressive decadent dessert that your guests will think took far more time and effort. So take a few minutes to make it, serve, enjoy your accolades, and figure out whether a spoon or fork works best.
--The Divine Miss V
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YUM! You're right! You can't go wrong when you start with ingredients like peanut butter, chocolate pie crust and Purely Decadent coconut milk ice cream?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds amazing; I love all the components -- I wish I had a million stomachs, no fair.
ReplyDeleteFor the crust--perhaps Oreos or Newman-Os (minus the filling) would work? I don't have this cookbook yet, but I'm hoping some wonderful, lovely, hungry person is getting it for me for Christmas. Until then I'm reading this blog and thinking about how fat I'm going to get when I can make ridiculously delicious peanut butter ice cream pies.
ReplyDeleteOoh, Newman-Os, scrape the filling, retain, and use it to frost something else later.
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