Peanut Butter Pie!

Did you know that "Happy Birthday" has 13 letters in it?

It does.
(which is perfect for your newly donned teen)

Just like his father, Jedi loves pie instead of cake.

Peanut Butter Pie to be exact.

Peanut Butter Pie

Crust

25 Oreo cookies, crushed to a fine crumb

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup melted butter

Filling

1 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese, softened

1 cup creamy peanut butter (I use Jif  and eyeball it)

1 cup sugar

1 Tbsp butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla 

Small container of Cool Whip

(because it's easier)

Press crust ingredients into a 9 inch pie plate. Bake 375 degrees for 10 minutes

Let cool.

In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, butter and vanilla until smooth.

Fold in Cool Whip.  Spoon into crust, garnish with cookie crumbs if you want to.

Refrigerate or freeze

(we freeze it and take it out for like 15 minutes before cutting)

If you have a big family like we do, you will make 2 of these pies

and if you do that, well,  you might not measure those cookies!

Lite Strawberry Pie

My mom made this recipe up when I was a kid.

It's easy, delicious, lite and pretty!

Lite Strawberry Pie

1 graham crust (I use store bought, but you could make your own) Fresh sliced strawberries

Large container of Cool Whip

Large package of Sugar Free Strawberry Jello

Mix the jello powder into the Cool Whip, add the strawberries, put into the crust and

garnish with nicely cut strawberries on top.

Refrigerate at least 4 hours.

My mom always used frozen strawberries, but in those days, fresh strawberries were not always available like they are today. Fresh definitely taste better!

Both her and I are Type I Diabetics, so this pie is about a carb and a half per slice.

Candy Bar Pie!

This is our Christmas Pie!
 We make it every Christmas day to have for dessert!

The kids are great helpers as they love to help cut up the candy bars and nibble a little bit!

Candy Bar Pie

1 pkg Cream cheese

1 Tbsp milk

2 tubs cool whip

2 pkgs chocolate instant pudding

1 3/4 cup milk

1 pkg mini candy bars

(we usually use Snickers, but could use Milky Way or 3 Musketeers), chopped

Chocolate pie crust (we use the Oreo one)

Mix the cream cheese with 1 Tbsp milk until smooth. 

 Gently stir in 2 cups cool whip and the chopped candy bars. Set aside.

Pour 1 3/4 cups milk into another bowl and add pudding,

 beat wit wire whisk and then gently stir in 1/2 cup cool whip.

spread 1/2 the pudding mixture on the bottom of crust,

 spread cream cheese mixture over pudding mixture

 and top with remaining pudding mixture and then on the very top,

 cover the pie with cool whip.

 (place shaved chocolate on top for decoration)

Needs to refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.

It's not good to forget this last part, as it's hard to wait for it to be set!

(Hey, the cool whip has hardly any calories!)

 

Frozen Mud Pie

2 cups Oreo cookie crumbs

2 tsp sugar

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/2 gallon chocolate chip ice cream, softened

(or coffee flavor, well, or any flavor you'd like!)

Chocolate syrup

Additional Oreos for garnish (optional)

Combine cookie crumbs and sugar and stir in butter. Press into a ungreased pie plate. (go up the sides) Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Spoon 1/2 the ice cream into crust. Drizzle with chocolate syrup, in stripes across the pie. Carefully top with remaining ice cream. There is enough here for everyone to have one bite if you have little helpers, as I did. Drizzle with chocolate syrup again on top, in stripes, then take a knife and swirl with a knife. place extra cookies on top for garnish. Freeze until firm.

Remove from freezer 10-15 minutes before serving.