Adding candy bars to desserts is an excellent idea. Everyone loves a good candy bar, so when people find their favorite candy bar in a dessert- that makes them pretty happy. This Butterfinger Pie is seriously the most creamy, delicious and decadent pie ever. The creamy filling is piled up a mile high. It’s a big time treat.
Fun-size Butterfinger bars are perfect for this recipe (if it’s around Halloween time, you can snag 23 of them from your kids’ trick or treat bags), or just use 15 ounces of Butterfingers. Use a kitchen scale to measure yours out. Be sure to get extra Butterfingers if you know you’re going to graze on them a bit while making this Butterfinger Pie. You’ll want ALL of the Butterfingers it calls for to go into the pie.
How to Make a Butterfinger Pie:
Start with an Oreo crust. It’s a simple mix of crushed Oreo cookies and melted butter. The mixture is pressed into a pie plate. It bakes for 8 minutes.
Next comes the fillings. There are three layers. You’re going to heat sugar, cornstarch and milk in a saucepan. Then you’re going to add the hot milk mixture very, very gradually to beaten eggs yolks to temper them (heat them up slowly) so they don’t scramble. Once the egg yolks are heated up, you can add them to the milk mixture in the pan and bring to a boil, then you’ll add peanut butter. At this point, you’ll take 1 cup of that peanut butter milk mixture and set it aside to cool.
To the peanut butter mixture still left in the pan, you’ll add chocolate chips and Butterfinger crumbs.
Once the chocolate is melted, you’ll pour this chocolate- peanut butter mixture into your cooled pie crust. Then you’ll put the chocolate filled pie into the refrigerator while you prepare the second layer.
Next comes the peanut butter layer. You’ll whip some whipping cream and then combine it with the reserved peanut butter filling. You’ll also stir in some of the Butterfinger crumbs. The peanut butter filling is then piled on top of the chocolate layer to create the second layer. And finally, you’ll create the third layer. It’s a mix of whipped cream and butterfinger crumbs. That’s spread on top of the peanut butter layer. I told you this was a decadent pie!
A few chopped Butterfingers are sprinkled on top.
Butterfinger Pie is very much a special-occasion type of pie. A small piece is plenty, and you should share it with everyone around you!
How to Make Chocolate Spiders:
If you happen to be making this pie around Halloween, it’s fun to add some chocolate spiders to the top of the pie. Follow this chocolate spider tutorial. The body is made from a piped-on cooled chocolate ganache, and the legs are made from melted chocolate “7’s” that are popped in the freezer until firm. The legs are stuck into the sides of the spider to make complete spider bodies. I’m sure that some people think chocolate spiders are a little creepy. But they’re super fun to add to desserts around Halloween. Keep them in mind! Spooky, right?!
This pie is as decadent as it looks. Go to the gym, get a long workout in, have a small piece of pie and a big glass of milk, and then go back to the gym. No kidding! It’s worth the splurge though. Grab some Butterfingers and make this pie- no baking required except the crust for a few minutes!!
Here are a few more candy dessert recipes you might enjoy:
Butterfinger Truffles Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Pie Butterfinger Brownie Cookies M&M Cookie Pie Butterfinger Brownies Butterfinger Chunk Cookies
