Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Pie

My little sisters favorite combination is peanut butter and chocolate of any variety. I challenge myself every year to come up with a special chocolate and peanut butter cake for her birthday. This year I made Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Pie! To my surprise it was a big hit. 

Being on a diet, 25lbs and counting, I decided to modify the recipe so I could indulge. I have written the recipe as a basic ice cream pie, but I modified it with fat free, sugar free ice cream, low fat peanut butter cookies and fat free whipped topping.

Feel free to use this recipe as a guideline... switch it up create new things. Maybe add some bananas or use chocolate cookies and vanilla ice cream. How does strawberry ice cream, sugar cookie crust and almond whipped topping? Or coconut, pineapple ice cream, oatmeal cookie crust and a cinnamon whipped topping? Ok, enough drooling on to the recipe.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Pie 

Ingredients:

1 bag of peanut butter cups

1 package of peanut butter cookies

1/2 gallon container of chocolate ice cream

1 container of whipped topping

1 tbsp of melted butter

Directions:

Remove the ice cream to let soften while you make the crust. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Add 4-6 cookies, depending on the size of cookies and pie plate, to the food processor and the tablespoon of melted butter. Pulse until finely crushed. Dump the mixture into the pie plate, using your fingers or the flat bottom of a cup, I use a juice cup/finger tip method, press the crust firmly into the bottom and up the sides. Bake for 15-20 min or until the crust starts lightly browning. Remove and let cool completely before putting ice cream into it.

While the crust is cooling you should make the filling. Start by unwrapping the peanut butter cups and roughly chopping them. Set one cup aside for garnishing. Add the rest and the chocolate ice cream to a mixing bowl and combine. Add the mixture to the cooled crust and place in freezer. 

About 10 minutes before serving remove from freezer, spread whipped topping on top and sprinkle with reserved peanut butter cups. ENJOY!