Tuesday, October 27, 2009

YWPWT: Hidden Candy Pie

Welcome to my second pie for You Want Pie With That?! This month's theme was Masquerade Pie and Halloween was totally my inspiration here.

This pie looks all nice and sweet and innocent with that lovely whipped cream topping. It looks like any regular cream pie.

But then you cut into it and -yowzers!- there's candy in this pie!

I wanted to come up with a super easy and fun pie to go with Halloween and the tasty treats of my youth - so this pie features M&Ms and half of a Hershey bar. Plus the layer of peanut butter filling (it sandwiches the candy) tastes just like a Reese's cup.


This pie could not be any easier to throw together - in fact I feel a little funny even calling this a recipe. But it's so yummy that no one will care how little effort you put into it!

Hidden Candy Pie
By Me

1 Pie Crust, cooked and cooled (I've yet to find a pie crust I love. Use your favorite or even a store bought - I won't tell).

3 Cups Whipped Cream (I used frozen Cool Whip - thawed of course)
3/4 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Small Bag of M&Ms
1 Regular Size Hershey Bar

Combine 2 cups of whipped cream and peanut butter until well mixed, spread half of this into the bottom of the baked and cooled pie shell.
Chop up 1/2 to 3/4 of the bag of M&Ms (however much sounds good to you) and place on top of the peanut butter cream. Chop half of the Hershey bar and layer on top of the M&Ms. Cover the candy with the rest of the peanut butter cream.
Top with a layer of plain whipped cream, 1 cup would work but Doug loves whipped cream so I made a really thick layer of it.
Chill for 30 minutes and serve.

7 comments:

That Girl said...

I'm usually not so into cream pies - but I have this AMAZING friend who makes the most fabulous candy-cream pies...as in they taste just like candy bars! Similar to this concept.

Alpineberry Mary said...

A perfect pie for Halloween!

TeaLady said...

This cake is evil and must be destroyed. Or devoured, either one. YUMMY!

suz said...

Even though this pie would most certainly kill me it's so joyful and looks so good it'd be hard to resist!

Jacque said...

Ooh, I'll bet that was a big hit. Looks delish!

Jacque said...

I'm back and I wanted to let you know... it looks like every has been too busy to vote for a winner, LOL. You can vote for your favorites at http://pieswiththat.blogspot.com/2009/11/october-roundup-november-theme.html .

Chats the Comfy Cook said...

This is such a cute pie. I have to make two of these for my class. No, make that four.

Great idea.