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black bottom peanut butter pie

this year i kept the peanut butter and chocolate theme going for jason's birthday with this peanut butter pie. way back in january, when i whipped up baked's sweet and salty cake to celebrate my own birthday, i was torn between that cake and a version of this pie. knowing chocolate and peanut butter is jason's all time favorite combination and that he's not really a fan of cakes and especially sweet buttercream, i shelved the pie until july. which is probably for the best anyway, since the day i made this, it was over ninety degrees out and definitely not a day i wanted to fire up the oven to bake a multi layer cake. while we both loved the way this turned out, it didn't exactly go as planned. the chocolate layer never quite firmed up into a solid mass, staying pretty thin and oozy. which meant the chocolate oozed into the crust and softened it a bit, which i didn't mind at all. and had the chocolate layer been a thick, rich, fudgy ganache, it would have been way too rich for our blood. so even though it didn't turn out exactly how it should per the original recipe at bon apetit, i wouldn't have changed a thing.

looking for other chocolate peanut butter treats? how about chocolate peanut butter layer cake, double chocolate chip peanut butter oatmeal cookies, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, chocolate peanut butter marble cake, chocolate peanut butter chip cookies, or peanut butter swirled chocolate cupcakes.

adapted from bon appetit
makes one 9" pie

7 whole graham crackers
2 2/3 cups heavy cream
1 cup peanut butter chips
1/4 cup roughly chopped salted peanuts to garnish (optional)

2012.09.03 this is a fit & spicy life's pick for the secret recipe club!