Peanut Butter Pie

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This is fabulous! I've tried cheating and doing it all as Alton says. Both ways are excellent. It's best HIS way, but in a crunch, the cheating works. Reading the reviews helped especially with the crust.

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While I cheated on ingredients, store bought Chocolate Ready Pie Crust (I couldn't find the chocolate wafers also, didn't want to drive every where too, the peanut butter in a jar (ingredients was 100% peanut from Central Market HEB, no preservatives like Jiff, Peter Pan, etc, this was actually surprisingly good. Not a perfect 5/5 but it'll make my cookbook compilation of recipes. Next time I make this, I'll hunt down those chocolate wafers and peanuts.

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Very tasty. A "bear" to make because the peanut butter was hard to handle. I recommend more chocolate wafers and more butter to bind them. It does not serve well, the crumbs fall away. However, having made a "grasshopper pie" (using creme de menthe and creme de cocoa which called for freezing, I froze the peanut butter pie and it was heavenly, However the wafers need more binding to stay with the slices. Also, I added "baby" choc chips and chopped unsalted, dry roased peanuts scattered over the top.

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If you follow the directions precisely as AB has laid out, your pie will be delicious and perfect. Use your scales and read the ingredient amounts don't blame AB if you don' t do this. Yummy Yummy. Used raw roasted Virginia peanuts and had to use a little bit more peanut oil to make the homemade peanut butter but what a difference. Much more better than any store bought even organic pricey ones. Thanks Alton!!! Love it

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Eh...It's o.k. Usually love your recipes, Alton but this one was just mediocre. Sorry.

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I had no wafers of any sort, so I used graham crackers instead, I feel there was maybe too much butter for the graham crackers, wafers probably would have worked better.

I also had no spanish peanuts, nor desire to make home made peanut butter. I used a brand name store bought peanut butter, unfortunately the pie was too rich. I would suggest that if you make your peanut butter you use an organic brand, or something with less sugar content then your average brand. If you can't do this, use less powdered sugar and maybe the pie won't be as rich.

* I have no idea how the use of less powdered sugar will effect the texture of the pie so be careful!

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My son and I have made this twice now, the first time we couldn't find Chocolate Wafers so we substituted "Chocolate Teddy Grahams? and cut back a little on the sugar for the crust. We should have added a little more butter with the ?Teddy Grahams? because the crust came out too crumbly. We also substituted store bought all-natural peanut butter. We served with frozen vanilla custard at my nephews birthday, and everybody raved about it!

The second time we made it we were able to find the wafers and followed the recipe exactly, though still using store bought all-natural peanut butter. We served it at my other nephews birthday sans ice cream, and it was really good, but didn't get the raves of the first time. I think the difference was the ice cream/custard. This pie is so rich I HIGHLY recommend serving it with vanilla ice cream or custard. Thanks AB!

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I was skeptical, but this really is amazing. It was super easy to make (if a tiny bit time consuming. The worst part was waiting for it to set in the fridge. Such agony, waiting for a bite of the pie!

I can't have more than half a slice, though, because it's so incredibly sweet. Definitely a dessert to share.

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My 3 year old help me make this for a picnic and it was quick and very easy. We had lots of fun making it and eating it. It was a hit!!!

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These are so much better than anything I could have bought.