Let me begin by saying, The King would LOVE this peanut butter pie! Elvis Pie, certainly. I used my favourite crisp peanut-butter cookie recipe for the crust. This peanut butter pie is SO scrumptious, your pals will NEVER imagine that YOU made it.
If, like me, you’re keen on a crumb crust, you could want to use 2 cups crumbs and 5 slices of bacon for a bigger proportion of crust to filling. I ready the bacon as said within the recipe and it took a great 20 minutes. I additionally put 2 paper towels on a plate, added 5 slices bacon, and lined it with one other paper towel, then cooked the bacon on excessive at 2-minute intervals till the slices had been VERY crisp, about 6 minutes whole. For sure, the bacon from the microwave was cooked, cooled, and run by the meals processor with the cookies earlier than the oven bacon was even beginning to get crisp. I used a pair tablespoons bacon fats and 1 tablespoon melted butter for the crust and it turned out properly.
The following step, making the filling, wants your full consideration. It isn’t troublesome, however you actually don’t wish to stroll away, so learn the recipe forward and have all the things you want shut at hand, since you’ll wish to hold the whisk shifting. The custard filling will all of a sudden thicken sufficient to go away apparent trails from the whisk simply earlier than it’s prepared for the eggs. After you mood and add the eggs, you actually need to maintain the whisk shifting. I had small bubbles breaking on the floor at about 2 1/2 minutes and eliminated the pan from the flame and added the vanilla. Then, I put the pan within the ice tub and stirred it each couple of minutes with a rubber spatula, incorporating the custard from the perimeters and preserving it properly blended, till it cooled which, surprisingly took lower than 10 minutes.
Constructing the pie was very simple. I reduce the bananas into circles and lined the underside of the crust with them, then I sliced a banana lengthwise and ran it across the whole aspect of the crust. Subsequent, I made one other layer of banana slices adopted by the ultimate layer of custard. In all, I used 3 medium giant bananas. For the whipped cream topping, I used a whisk attachment with the KitchenAid stand mixer on medium-high for about 4 minutes, slathered it on the pie, and topped it off with peanuts that I had chopped within the meals processor.
