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Butterfinger Pie tastes just like the famous candy bar with a creamy peanut butter filling and crushed butterfingers mixed in! This is a quick and easy pie recipe that you can make with a pastry pie crust or a no-bake cookie crust.
The Best Butterfinger Pie Recipe
Who are my Butterfinger fans? Butterfinger pie is so easy to make and has the best filling made with peanut butter and cream cheese for a rich, cool and creamy dessert. I get a lot of inspiration from candy and look for any excuse to turn my favorites into pies, like peanut butter candy pie and candy bar pie, this Butterfinger pie recipe with cream cheese takes the candy bar’s flavors and turns it into a dessert everyone will love:
- It’s a 6 ingredient pie – so easy and not fussy at all!
- Make it with a pastry crust OR a no bake cookie crust
- Make it up to a day ahead of time!
6 Ingredients Needed
- Crust: Use my All-butter pie crust for the classic crust, or use a regfrigerated crust or you can use an Oreo pie crust.
- Cream Cheese: Softened cream cheese is the base of the filling.
- Peanut butter: Creamy peanut butter or crunchy no-stir peanut butter can be used
- Cool Whip: This adds the fluffiness. Whipped Topping is easy to use and makes it totally no-fail. You can substitute 3 cups homemade whipped cream for the Cool Whip if you prefer! Just beat cold heavy whipping cream until stiff peaks form.
- Chopped Butterfinger candy bars or use Butterfinger Bits sold in the baking aisle.
Pie Crust Options
If you want a no bake pie use one of these crusts:
How to Make Butterfinger Pie
- Either blind bake your pie crust or make your cookie crust.
- Chop the Butterfinger candy bars into small pieces.
- Beat the cream cheese until it’s smooth. Add the peanut butter and mix again before adding the sugar and vanilla.
- Stir in the container Cool Whip and crushed Butterfinger candy. Spoon the peanut butter filling into your prepared crust. Cover the pie and refrigerate for at least four hours. Top the pie with more Cool Whip before slicing and serving.
Variations
- Use crunchy or creamy peanut butter or a flavored peanut butter – as long as it’s shelf stable it’ll work.
- Use any kind of Cool Whip
- You can replace the Butterfingers with any candy bar, or use Butterfinger Bits if you can find them to make the pie even easier to make.
How to Serve
Serve pie by itself or topped with whipped cream or more cool whip and a sprinkle of chopped candy bars.
Expert Tips
- Feel free to use homemade whipped cream for the filling and the topping instead of Cool Whip if that’s what you prefer. Just be aware that Cool Whip tends to hold up better because it has stabilizers. If you use whipped cream and have leftovers, the whipped cream might break down after a few days.
- Sprinkling some finely chopped Butterfingers over the top before you serve it would be an excellent idea!
- The pie needs at least two hours to chill in the fridge, but you can let it sit overnight. Any leftovers will keep well for a few days.
- Love frozen pie? You should try my frozen Butterfinger ice cream pie, too!
How to Store and Freeze
Store this pie in the refrigerator for up to 4 days, if made as directed with cool whip. If you swap heavy whipping cream it will only last 2-3 days. Butterfinger Pie can be frozen if made with cool whip – wrap it well with plastic wrap.
Butterfinger Pie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Pie Crust blind baked (see note)
- 8 ounces (226g) cream cheese softened
- ½ cup (133g) peanut butter
- ¼ cup (50g) sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (8 ounce/226g) container Cool Whip (or about 3 cups freshly whipped cream)
- 1 ½ cups (182g) chopped Butterfingers candy bars
Instructions
- Beat cream cheese with a hand mixer until smooth, then mix in peanut butter until smooth. Add sugar and vanilla and mix until combined, then stir in Cool Whip. Stir in chopped Butterfingers.
- Place mixture in pie. Cover and chill for at least 2 hours before slicing and serving. Serve with extra whipped topping or whipped cream. Store in refrigerator.
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Recipe Notes
- Learn how to blind bake your pie crust here.
- To make a NO BAKE PIE: use a graham cracker, Oreo, or peanut butter cookie crust instead of the pastry crust.
- Feel free to use homemade whipped cream for the filling and the topping instead of Cool Whip if that’s what you prefer. Just be aware that Cool Whip tends to hold up better because it has stabilizers. If you use whipped cream and have leftovers, the whipped cream might break down after a few days.
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- Sprinkling some finely chopped Butterfingers over the top before you serve it would be an excellent idea!
Recipe Nutrition
This EASY Butterfinger Pie recipe is full of peanut butter and Butterfinger candy bars. With a no bake filling this simple pie is delicious with a pastry pie crust or substitute a graham cracker crust or oreo crust! This really is the BEST pie recipe!
This pie looks amazing! I am going to try using a graham cracker crust. 🙂
I would make this if Butterfinger hadn’t changed their recipe. I can’t be the only one who doesn’t like the new one.
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