With just 5 ingredients and no baking required, this smooth peanut butter pie recipe is so easy to make!
5 ingredient peanut butter pie
This secretly healthy peanut butter pie is so easy to make.
Just five vegan ingredients, with NO cream cheese, NO Cool Whip, and NO heavy cream. One taste of the whipped peanut butter filling, and you’ll never believe it could possibly be so healthy!
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You Might Have A Peanut Butter Obsession If…
There are currently at least four open jars of peanut butter in your fridge or pantry.
You believe peanut butter goes well with everything and get excited about any recipe you find that includes it as an ingredient.
You fail to understand how a person could eat just one spoonful of peanut butter and then close the jar. (Seriously, HOW is that possible???)
You know where you stand in the creamy or crunchy debate and believe passionately in your position. (Crunchy peanut butter for life.)
You’re currently eating peanut butter while reading this post.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Covered Katie?
No, I’m not changing the name of the blog.
Although maybe I should…
To be honest, I probably eat even more peanut butter than chocolate!
I’ve started buying it in bulk to get a case discount, and yet all twelve jars somehow always seem to disappear in record speed. Still trying to work out how that happens.
It’s my birthday today, and I’ve decided to have two birthday cakes/desserts this year, because two cakes are better than one, right?
The first cake will be for whenever I get around to throwing a party, and it’ll probably be some variation of Vegan Chocolate Cake.
And the second birthday dessert? This peanut butter pie!
It’s an updated version of a no-bake peanut butter pie recipe that I posted way back in 2012. This one makes a deeper pie, has less oil, and the recipe also includes the optional pie crust I used.
If you’d prefer to make it crustless or serve as peanut butter mousse in glasses or ramekins, that is perfectly fine too!
To make the peanut butter pie, you simply add the five ingredients to a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
The recipe is sweetened naturally with banana (there’s also a banana-free version for those who’d prefer it), and if you’re used to treats with a “healthy dessert” taste, you might not even want to add any additional sweetener at all.
If you’re serving to others, I’d definitely recommend including the sweetener – at just 1/4 cup for the entire recipe, it’s over a FULL CUP less sugar than traditional no bake peanut butter pie recipes… and that’s before you’ve even included all the sugar from the Cool Whip!
Peanut Butter Pie
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup peanut butter or allergy friendly sub
- 4 1/2 overripe bananas (here's a banana-free version)
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup coconut oil
- sweetener of choice such as a pinch stevia or 1/4 cup powdered sugar (if you have no sweet tooth, you can omit)
Instructions
- Feel free to use your favorite crust. I simply combined the following in a food processor until fine crumbles formed, then pressed into a parchment-lined 9-inch springform: 1 1/2 cup cashews or raw nuts of choice, 1 cup raisins, 1/8 tsp salt, 3 tbsp cocoa powder.For the peanut butter pie, blend all pie ingredients until completely smooth. Pour filling over the crust, and refrigerate 3-4 hours or until firm enough to easily slice. Store leftovers in the fridge or freezer so the pie stays firm. Note: you can sub coconut butter for the coconut oil, but any other substitutions are at your own risk, because coconut oil hardens when chilled so other oils or nut butters would not work the same way to firm up the pie. But please feel free to experiment if you wish, and report back if you do!View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Healthy Peanut Butter Ideas
Almond Milk Ice Cream (Includes a peanut butter flavor)
Happy Birthday! You mentioned Cool Whip in the discussion, but I did not see it in the actual recipe.
Happy Birthday Katie! I love how you didn’t recommend the average cake recipe and instead delivered a decadently delicious-looking peanut butter pie! I used to eat peanut butter by the spoon, spreading it all over my face. The latter’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I would have done it anyways. This pie looks to die for. I am currently trying to ween off of nut butter since it’s getting more expensive for me, but when I did have them, I could totally relate to the peanut butter addiction criteria!
I love this recipe. Oh and Happy belated birthday.
Anyone try it with almond butter? We have peanut allergies in our family. Thanks!
Delicious with almond butter 🙂
Oh. My. God. Delicious !!!!! Definitely making again
Love the photo!
Jenna, Thanks for the real world photo…well done!
SO delicious!! Topped it with melted chocolate (melted chocolate chips with a tiny bit of coconut oil). My husband loves peanut butter cups and said this tasted like a GIANT peanut butter cup (pie!) He actually requested it for his birthday in December!
PS he loves peanut butter and he loves bananas, but he dislikes peanut butter with bananas together at the same time. He completely dislikes PB & banana combo. So he was shocked to find out this pie had four bananas in it! He said all he could taste was peanut butter (and chocolate). He was amazed! I used a couple pinches of pure uncut stevia to sweeten the filling and blended the filling mixture in my Vitamix. I also made it in a 7-inch springform pan so it would be thicker. Thanks for this winning recipe, Katie!
So delicious!
Oh my god this was sooooo yummy!!!! It tasted like peanut butter cups!!!! I added some ground flax seed and made a crust by processing some dates, walnuts, and coco powder!!!!
Thanks Jason. I used sanitarium peanut butter which is 100% peanuts, Aldi organic coconut oil, Queens vanilla essence, pure maple syrup to sweeten and bananas. Could it be that I used to high a speed on my processor perhaps?
Thanks,
Amanda
Can you put that all back in the food processor and whip it up until it’s evenly mixed?
It may have come out that way because you used syrup rather than sugar.
This is gorgeous! I just need the skills to make it ??♀️?
Why does the color of top of filling look different from the filling itself?
Just the way the pie sets!