No Bake Peanut Butter Pie With Oreo Crust

No bake Peanut Butter Pie with Oreo Crust is smooth and creamy, crunchy and sweet all at once! I love everything about this no bake pie; it is a very easy recipe with an amazing creamy texture, deep peanut butter, and Oreo flavors. What's more, it is so quick to make.

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• 🌟 Why This Is The Best Recipe
• 📝 Ingredient Notes
• 👩🏼‍🍳 How To Make This Recipe
• 📖 Flavor Variations & Substitutions
• ❄️ Storage & Freezing
• ✨ Expert Tips
• 🥣 Equipment notes
• ❓Recipe FAQ
• 🍮 Other No-bake Dessert Recipes
• No bake Peanut Butter Pie with Oreo crust

🌟 Why This Is The Best Recipe

1. It's so easy - Following my popular No-bake Oreo cheesecake recipe, I created another crazy delicious and super simple no bake dessert with Oreos. No oven, no hassle!
2. No complex ingredients - You will need only 5 basic ingredients you probably already have in your pantry and no special equipment or techniques.
3. It's not too sweet - This no-bake peanut butter pie with Oreo crust is super light and tastes amazing with just the right amount of sweetness! 

📝 Ingredient Notes

For the Oreo pie crust

1. Butter: Use unsalted butter to remain in control of the quantity of salt. I use 82% fat-content butter in all my recipes. The butter needs to be melted in the microwave.
2. Oreo cookies: Oreos are an institution that makes the best cookie crust for pies and cheesecakes. If you like Oreos, why not try this delicious Oreo milkshake without ice cream from Jenna?
3. Salt: This is an essential ingredient in most dessert recipes. It balances sweetness and enhances other ingredients.

🛒 You’ll find detailed measurements for all Ingredients in the printable version of the Recipe Card at the bottom of this post

For the Peanut butter filling

1. Heavy cream: Also known as whipping cream, it has a fat content between 36% and 40% (I use 36% fat heavy cream). Make sure it is very cold so that it whips properly. You can learn more about common baking ingredients in my baking guides section.
2. Powdered sugar: I only use a small amount of powdered sugar (icing sugar) in this Peanut butter filling. The Oreo cookie crust is sweet, so you do not need to use much extra sugar in this easy recipe.
3. Cream cheese: I always use a full-fat Philadelphia tub when I use cream cheese in my recipes. I find it easy to cream and very pleasant in taste. But you can use any high-quality cream cheese that you prefer; just do not use low-fat or reduced-fat products.
4. Peanut butter: Make sure you use good quality, unsweetened peanut butter, which is made of 100% peanut. Since this will be a smooth filling with mousse-like consistency, the peanut butter should be smooth peanut butter, and not crunchy peanut butter. If you like peanut butter desserts, why not try these delicious double peanut butter cookies, too, from Sheery?
5. Oreos: We decorate the no bake peanut butter pie with Oreo crust and cream with a frosting made from more cream cheese and heavy cream, plus crushed Oreo cookies.

🛒 You’ll find detailed measurements for all Ingredients in the printable version of the Recipe Card at the bottom of this post

👩🏼‍🍳 How To Make This Recipe

How to make Oreo Pie crust

Check out my in-depth guide to making Oreo pie crust for all my pro tips before you begin.

1. Melt butter in the microwave (or on the stovetop) and let it cool down slightly while preparing the Oreo cookie crumbs.
2. Blitz or blend Oreos into crumbs using a food processor or by placing the cookies into a plastic ziplock bag and hitting them with a rolling pin.
3. Mix the Oreo crumbs into the warm butter with a pinch of salt until it all comes together.
4. Press the Oreo crust mixture into a pie tin to form the pie crust. Once the crust is evenly distributed, place it into the freezer to set it whilst preparing the creamy peanut butter filling.

💡 Top Tip: Find some equipment in your kitchen, like a bent spoon, to really press the crust into the pan. I spend around 10-15 minutes just focusing on the crust, making sure that it is really neat and even.

How to make peanut butter pie

1. In a bowl, whip the cream cheese and powdered sugar together using an Electric hand mixer. Only whip until light and fluffy, and do not overbeat.
2. Fold the peanut butter into the whipped cream cheese and sugar mixture using a Rubber spatula.
3. Whip the very cold heavy cream in a separate bowl until soft peaks form.
4. Very gently (to avoid knocking out the air), fold the whipped cream into the peanut butter cream cheese mixture.
5. Pour the creamy peanut butter pie filling into the prepared Oreo cookie crust. Smooth off the top using an Offset spatula. Place it into the fridge for a minimum of 4 hours for it to set.
6. Decorate your easy no bake peanut butter Oreo pie. Whip heavy cream and cream cheese until it reaches a pipeable consistency. Fold in more crushed Oreo crumbs and place the whipped topping into a piping bag fitted with a French star nozzle tip. Pipe decorations onto the pie surface and add more Oreos for garnish.
7. Chill the pie in the fridge again for the decoration to set before serving.

💡 Top Tip: Use a spoon and fork to decorate the pie rather than piping if you prefer! Fresh strawberries also taste delicious placed on top.

📖 Flavor Variations & Substitutions

Once you've mastered this easy no bake peanut butter pie with Oreo crust recipe, you can adapt it to suit you. Add a pinch of vanilla extract, or use different nut butter, like pistachio butter or cashew butter, for the no bake pie filling. Or you could swap out the cookie crust and make an easy Graham Cracker crust. You could even use Lotus Biscoff cookies.

When I am feeling super decadent, I turn this dessert into a peanut butter pie with Oreo crust and chocolate ganache frosting. Chocolate works so well with the peanut butter flavor, and a chocolate peanut butter pie is always popular!

If you are baking around a dietary restriction, check out my substitution guides. Or you may have simply run out of some key ingredients!

If you love making desserts without having to turn on the oven, check out these other easy no bake desserts.

❄️ Storage & Freezing

Store no bake peanut butter pie with Oreo crust and cream cheese in an airtight container in the fridge. Consume within 2-3 days.

You can make the easy no-bake pie crust ahead of time and store it until needed. It freezes well, too. Simply double-wrap it in plastic wrap and aluminum foil to prevent freezer burn.

I do not recommend freezing no bake pie once filled, as the creamy peanut butter mousse filling can go grainy when defrosted.

✨ Expert Tips

1. Always weigh your ingredients for this Oreo peanut butter pie recipe by the gram using a digital scale. Baking is about precision, and measuring by volume is not precise enough. 
2. Make sure the heavy cream is very cold before whipping, or it will not thicken properly. I like to move it from the fridge into the freezer for 10 minutes just before whipping.
3. If the Oreo butter mixture is too runny to work with when pressing it into the tin, place it into the fridge for a few minutes to firm up. Do not be tempted to add more Oreos or more butter; the recipe is correct. It just needs to cool down a bit more.
4. Do not overwhip the cream cheese mixture, or it can go runny. Be careful when folding in the peanut butter to keep the fluffy texture.
5. Do not overbeat the heavy cream, as it can go stiff. Stop when you see soft peaks forming in the cream.
6. The pie filling needs a minimum of 4 hours in the fridge to set properly, so don't skip or shorten this step. 

🥣 Equipment notes

Weigh all of your ingredients using a Digital scale for precision. I do not recommend using the cup system for baking; it is not precise enough, and cup measurements differ depending on which country you are in.

Combine ingredients using an Electric hand mixer and Rubber spatula and smooth off the top of your peanut butter pie filling with an Offset spatula

I use a 20 cm / 8 inch loose base pie tin for this easy peanut butter pie with Oreo crust recipe. The pie serves 8 people.

Pipe decorations onto your peanut butter Oreo pie using a piping bag fitted with a French star nozzle tip. Or, simply use a spoon!

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