Pie #7: Little No Bake Butter Finger Pie

One thing that strikes me as interesting about this “no bake” pie is the first instruction you read is to bake the pie…what’s up with that? So when I read that this pie would be a “no bake pie” I thought there would be no baking required, well, I was wrong. The little pies needed to be baked for five minutes and cooled before the filling could be put into the pies. Why do I say pies? This particular recipe called for little individual pie crusts, the kind you buy from the store all ready to go.

When going over the instructions for the pies I noticed that the recipe called for ½ cup of smooth peanut butter. Being that I am not the biggest fan of peanut butter I was not thrilled to see there would be that much peanut butter in it. I made a decision at the beginning of this pie journey that I would follow the directions to a “t”, so although I thought that a half of cup of PB was way too much, but what do I know, so I put in the ½ a cup of PB it called for. As I read on, I realized that the recipe also calls for an entire package of cream cheese which always seems to make everything okay. I love cream cheese, don’t you?

As I was wrapping up and putting away all of the ingredients for the pies, I read ahead and noticed that the pies were supposed to be in the fridge chilling… oops. So, I made the call to put the pie crusts in the freezer so it would allow the pies to chill faster in the amount of time I had left. I have learned when the recipe calls for something to be chilled, and you do not remember to do so, just stick the ingredients in the freezer for a few minutes and there you go… CHILLED!

I crushed one Butterfinger bar in our granite mortar and pestle grinder, or “medicine crusher” as I like to call it. This made for some nice little crumbs of Butterfinger.

After mixing all of the ingredients that the recipe called for I put some in each of my pie crusts. I had to make sure they were filled to the top and top them off with crushed Butterfinger candy.

After filling each pie and letting them set for at least 3 hours, it was time for topping. I whipped up some whipping cream till it became the consistency of whip cream. The flavor of the whipped cream was okay, not too good by itself, but it tasted great on top of the individual pies.

In the end pies turned out really well. I liked the combination of peanut butter and cream cheese and the constancy of the pies reminded me of custard and they even looked like custard pies, but it was not even close to tasting like it…

I made a total of 6 individual pies. Two of them I gave to our neighbor, one Joshua and I ate, and the other three pies I took to our friends the Fisher’s house.

Hello Results: I will say it was a lot of work for a no bake pie, just sayin... I liked the balance of peanut butter and cream cheese and the crunch the Butterfinger gave the pies. I will say the whipped cream needed something added to it for more flavor, like powdered sugar or something similar. Over all, a hit! 293 pies to go!