Snickers Candy Bar Pie
Servings 10 pieces
Ingredients
- 1 9 oz premade graham cracker or chocolate cookie crust
- 1 14 oz can dulce de leche
- 1 8 oz block cream cheese, softened
- 1 16 oz container frozen whipped topping, thawed and divided
- 1 11 oz bag snack size Snickers bars, unwrapped and cubed
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped salted peanuts divided use
- ¼ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 2 Tbsp heavy cream
Instructions
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer, whip together the dulce de leche and cream cheese for 2 minutes until combined and smooth.
- Use a rubber spatula to fold in ½ of the thawed whipped topping, ½ of the cubed Snickers bars and 1/3 cup peanuts by hand. Pour the caramel mixture into the graham cracker pie crust and spread evenly.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 4 hours.
- Just before serving, frost the top of the pie with the remaining whipped topping. Arrange reserved cubed Snickers bar pieces on top.
- Melt Chocolate: In a microwave-safe bowl, melt together the chocolate and heavy cream. Heat in 20 second increments stopping to stir each time. Repeat until smooth. Allow to cool slightly then drizzle on top of the candy bar pieces.
- Sprinkle with reserved chopped peanuts, slice and serve.
Notes
- Caramel - The filling of this Snickers pie gets it's sweet caramel flavor from dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is a luscious thick caramel that's made as a result of caramelizing and reducing sweetened condensed milk. It's available in most grocery stores in the Hispanic foods section in a small can that looks like sweetened condensed milk. You can also find it at World Market and specialty foods stores like Williams Sonoma. You could use a thick ice cream topping, instead.
- Vanilla Pie Filling - You could adapt the filling of this pie beating one can of sweetened condensed milk and 1/2-1 cup powdered sugar with the cream cheese. Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to enhance the flavor.
- Peanut Butter - You could also replace the caramel with 1 cup of creamy peanut butter. When doing so, you'll need to add just enough heavy cream to give it a creamy texture. Beat together the peanut butter, cream cheese and 1-2 cups of powdered sugar adding heavy cream in 2-3 tablespoon increments to thin.
- Chocolate - You can use semi-sweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips for the chocolate ganache to drizzle on top. You could also drizzle the top with caramel sauce.
- Cream Cheese - You can use Neufchatel cream cheese in place of full fat cream cheese and light whipped topping to reduce calories.
- Peanuts - You can keep the filling smooth by only adding peanuts as a garnish.
- Homemade Graham Cracker Crust - Using a premade graham cracker crust is deliberate to keep the preparation for this pie simple. You can using my homemade graham cracker crust recipe to make your own.