Sweet eaters and readers, happy belated Valentine’s Day and welcome to Tasty Tuesday 02.2021. Today’s post is part of the Favorite Treats for Your Sweets recipe swap and blog hop. Try saying that with your mouth full!! Hope this link up with all the recipes we share will be a treat to all of you.
Whether you’re hungry or just like to eat, you’ve hit the jackpot! This gaggle of gals has gathered together to share some of our favorite recipes with YOU. And with each other, of course. Before we get started today, you can check out last year’s recipes, here. And, if you are hopping here from Deb’s blog at Deb’s World, thank you!!
Favorite Treats for Your Sweets
One of the activities on this year’s winter bucket list is trying 3 new recipes. I have tried a new cocktail, and a new main dish. So making this Reese’s pie will allow me to put that nice green check mark for mission accomplished! 
Let’s not waste another precious minute! So, grab your apron and meet me in the kitchen.
LET’S GET COOKING: Reese’s Pie
One of PC’s favorite candies is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Out of curiosity, how do you pronounce that name…Reese’s? Do you say Ree-sus or Ree-sees? I say Ree-sus Peanut Butter Cups. But hear a lot of folks pronouncing it the other way…including my Prince. When I discovered the recipe for this Reese’s pie on Pinterest, I knew it would be a big hit at our house. No matter how you pronounce its name!!
Ingredients
Here’s all you will need for this decadent dessert.
- graham cracker pie crust (I used shortbread)
- 8oz container Cool Whip (I used lite)
- 8oz package cream cheese, softened (I used 1/3 fat less fat Neufchatel)
- bag of miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – crushed (We used the snack-size, 15 because PC ate one)
Directions
- Crush Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, we cut them into bite-sized bits with a knife
- Blend the Cool Whip with the softened cream cheese
- Add most of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (save some of the candy for the topping)
- Spoon into pie crust
- Sprinkle remaining chopped peanut butter cups on top
- Refrigerate the pie in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving
Other Suggestions
You can add a 1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter into the mixture for even more peanut butter flavor if you prefer. Or maybe the same amount of Nutella? Wouldn’t that be scrumptious? But as is in the recipe, the pie has a cheesecake flavor.
I would also have used a few more peanut butter cups. We didn’t have enough to cover the top of the pie completely. Then again, it wasn’t quite as rich with fewer of the candies on the top layer.
This pie can also be made with other candies like Butterfinger, Snickers, Nestle’s Crunch. The sky’s the limit!!
YOUR TURN
Is there a special recipe you make as a favorite treat? Maybe a family dish? Something handed down from generation to generation? Or maybe something you have just discovered like I did this Reese’s pie? Would love to know all about it. Please link up your favorite treat for your sweets recipe with us. Or share some of the details of your recipe in a comment below.
Hope you will follow along the blog hop and pop over to check out Gale’s recipe at All the Little Bits. Can’t wait to check out her recipe and the recipes of all the girls participating.
Big thanks to the sweet bloggers who joined me for this recipe swap and blog hop. I love your enthusiastic, supportive hearts! And thank YOU for coming by and spending some time here with me. Please let me know if you give this Reese’s pie a try. And if you have any questions about the recipe, just holler.
Hugs and sticky kisses,
That sounds scrumptious! I have made a similar pie a few times as most anything with peanut butter and chocolate is usually a big hit in this house.
Here, too. I would eat anything with peanut butter on it!! Chocolate, too. Have Alec make this for the fam.
My son loves Reeses (we pronounce it Ree-sis!) but you can’t buy them everywhere over here. I had to google Cool Whip as we don’t have that over here at all but it seems that there may be alternatives that I could use to try it!
Yes, I think I say Ree-sis, too. I think I put rees-sus but it is more rees-sis. Definitely not rees-sees!!
Love that you had to Google Cool Whip. What do you call your alternative? You could use real whipped cream and that would
be ultra divine.
Sounds very tasty & I always appreciate a recipe share. While we can get many of the Reeses products, I don’t think I have seen the mini pieces any where.
Thank you, Mary-Lou. I think you can just crumble any size of the candies you can find. I would say we needed another package of the size we used to completely cover the top of the pie properly. It was heavenly, though!!
I clearly need this in my belly right now.
Ha!! Me, too!! I am ready for another slice.
That sounds amazing, I love Reese’s!
Oh, Dara, your gang would love this pie!! Put the boys to work making it!!
This sounds amazing Leslie. YUM! I love all things Peanut butter. I actually say “rees-sis” lol. I had to say it a few times to see how I say it since I guess I don’t pay attention. I enjoyed participating with everyone.
I think I probably say rees-sis, too, or rees-sus, kind of the same. I love PB too. Chunky!! Thank you for joining me.
Happy Tasty Tuesday, Leslie! My husband will LOVE this pie! If there could be only one candy in his life, it would be the humble Reese’s PB Cup. The original, not the extra huge ones… The proportion of PB to chocolate in those is not right. He’s the expert, and he says Ree-see’s. So I’ll go with that. Thank you for organizing this blog hop, and for inviting me to play along! I appreciate you!
Oh, Liz, you have to make it for him!! He will kiss the ground you walk on…if he isn’t already!! Truly, so easy. And tastier even the second day!!
Yummo!! What is not to love about this dish?!
Thank you for sharing this with us, Leslie.
Wishing you a happy (belated) Valentine’s Day!
Oh, Donna, so easy and so yummy!! And even better on day 2! And you can sub in your
favorite candy. Hope you will give it a go.
Ooh yum. I do love Reese’s. And I pronounce it Ree-see’s. LOL
-lauren
Ha!! That pronunciation must be a mid-west thing. Although, you are on the cusp of mid-west and southern.
Leslie! This sounds AMAZING!!!!! I LOVE Reese’s! I think I am going to have my daughter’s and I try making this! Thanks for sharing.
It is so easy and so yummy!! Switch out the candy of your choosing, too!! Even tastier the second day.
Ooooohhh Reese’s Cups are my weakness!
Your kiddos would love this!! Grab the ingredients next shopping trip and challenge someone to make it for you!!
Oh my goodness does that look yummy and rich! Thanks for sharing.
Decadent but totally worth it!! And better the second day.
I’m totally pinning this. This seems like something I can do!! & the Hubby would literally EAT THIS UP
Super duper easy and really yum!!
That looks decadent! We don’t get cool whip here – I’m assuming it’s canned cream? (which, incidentally, is something we don’t have over here.) I’m going to make a confession – I’ve never tried a Reese’s…and we can get them here now. I really must correct that oversight.
Ha!! Yes, please try a Reese’s immediately!!
You could use real whipped cream instead of the Cool Whip…it is just easier. I tried to find something similar
available in Australia but only the aerosol whipped topping showed up. It might work but probably would hold
together very well.
Wow, that pie looks delicious – and easy enough that I might try it. Thanks for sharing
Grace & Peace, Iris
http://www.IrisOriginalsRamblings.com
Thank you, Iris. It is so easy and so delectable.
Oh, gosh, that looks yummy! And not too hard to throw together which is a big plus!
Oh, grab your babies next visit and mix this up with them!! You will all be in pig heaven. So easy and tasty. And even better the second day.
Now there’s easy and delicious for you!!
OXOX
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
Oh, so yum, Jodie!!
This post should have come with a warning label!!! Ha! This looks way to good and way to easy to make. We’d love it over here – maybe a little too much – but YUM!!!
xo,
Kellyann
Oh, Kellyann, it was even more delectable the second day. Please try!!
I’ve made something like this years ago. I need to make that again soon.
Oh wow – this looks and sounds delicious!! (anyway that you say it!!) I will make it this weekend:) I would make it today but we are at the tail-end of today’s winter storm…which was a bit underwhelming. Mostly sleet and ice and very little snow. Just a cold mess. I do hope you are okay in your corner of Texas – my heart has been so concerned for those hurting (and cold) there! Praying you are safe and doing well!! I’m going to browse through some of these links!!:)
This looks heavenly! And super easy too! I can’t wait to try this out!
Oh, I bet your fam will love this pie!!