Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pie - Homemade Peanut Butter Pie from Scratch
Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pie is a from scratch pudding pie that has a decadent peanut butter flavor and smooth, creamy texture. You may never buy a boxed pudding mix again after making this easy pudding filling.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
Cooling Time3 hours hrs
Total Time3 hours hrs 20 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pie, Peanut Butter Cream Pie, Peanut Butter Pie, Peanut Butter Pie From Scratch
Servings: 8 slices
Calories: 435kcal
Author: Barbara
- 3 cups milk
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup peanut butter, creamy
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 deep dish pie crust, pre baked
- Whipped Cream or Cool Whip, optional
In a medium sized saucepan; add milk and egg yolks, beat together with whisk. Turn heat to low.
In a small bowl, mix sugar, cornstarch and salt; add to the milk mixture.
Turn up the heat to medium, and constantly stir until the mixture comes to a low boil and thickens to a pudding consistency.
Remove from heat; pour into a bowl, and cover with wax paper pressed up against the pudding so that a skin doesn't form.
Cool in the refrigerator for several hours or until the pudding is no longer warm.
NOTE: This is a good time to pre-bake your crust so it's cooled and ready to go!
Once chilled, whip the pudding with a mixer until creamy; add peanut butter and vanilla, and beat until smooth.
Pour into a deep dish pie crust that has been pre-baked according to package instructions and cooled.
If desired, top with homemade whipped cream or Cool Whip and chopped candied peanuts.
- This pie is an old fashioned peanut butter cream pie. It consists of making a homemade pudding on the stove. Once you've made homemade pudding, there's no going back to the boxed kind.
- You can omit the pie crust and eat this as peanut butter pudding from scratch.
- If your peanut butter pudding has lumps, you can press it through a sieve to make smooth.
- Whipped cream or Cool Whip is optional. Try sprinkling the top with chopped peanuts or peanut butter chips for some extra pizzazz.
- Homemade puddings tend to form a skin. During the cooling stage, take a piece of waxed paper, and press it right up to the pudding to prevent this from happening to this peanut butter pie from scratch.
- Be sure to refrigerate this peanut butter cream pie from scratch.
- Love peanut butter? Try our Scotcheroos , Salted Peanut Squares, and Sea Salted Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chunks.
- The nutritional information below is auto-calculated and can vary depending on the products used.
Calories: 435kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 82mg | Sodium: 290mg | Potassium: 258mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 246IU | Calcium: 125mg | Iron: 1mg