No-Bake Peanut Butter Banana Pie

A slice of peanut butter banana icebox pie showing the layers of bananas and peanut butter.

No-Bake Peanut Butter Banana Pie

This no-bake peanut butter banana pie combines a layer of fresh bananas with a fluffy peanut butter filling in a buttery peanut butter cookie crust. It's an easy make-ahead dessert that's perfect for potlucks, family dinners, and eating your feelings after a particularly bad day.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American - Southern

Prep Time 10

Chilling time 8

Total Time 8 10

Servings

Calories 630kcal

Author Marye Audet-White

Ingredients

Crust

2 cups peanut butter cookie crumbs or 1 9-inch graham cracker crust
⅓ cup butter melted

Filling

1-½ cups heavy cream divided use
8 ounces cream cheese softened to room temperature
1 cup creamy peanut butter don't use natural or the kind you have to stir in the oil
½ cup light brown sugar packed
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 large bananas sliced

Instructions

Crust

Preheat oven to 350°.
Stir together crust ingredients; firmly press on bottom and up sidesof a lightly greased 9-inch pie plate.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Remove from oven to a wire rack, and cool completely.
Or use a purchased graham cracker crust

Filling

Beat softened cream cheese, peanut butter, and brown sugar with the paddle of a stand mixer on low until well mixed and no longer grainy.
Add ¼ cup whipping cream and continue to mix on low, scraping the bowl as needed, until the mixture is fluffy.
Set aside.
Beat vanilla and remaining 1 -¼ cups whipping cream at high speed until stiff peaks form.
Gently fold one-third whipped cream mixture into peanut butter mixture.
Fold in remaining whipped cream mixture.
Arrange banana slices in bottom of crust.
Spoon peanut butter mixture over bananas.
Cover and chill 8 hours.

Notes

Storage:

You can store leftovers, tightly covered, in the fridge for 2-3 days.

Tips:

- Buy regular creamy peanut butter, like the kind from Jif or Skippy. All-natural peanut butter is extra oily and often separates.

- Soften your cream cheese before blending it with the peanut butter and brown sugar. You can’t mix cold cream cheese!

- Fold whipped cream in gently or the whole thing can deflate and become runny.

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