Easy Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

Here is the pie I made for Thanksgiving. It was easy to make and everyone loved it. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:
- 1 cup peanut butter
-1 (8oz.) package of cream cheese, softened
-1 (12 oz) container (4 1/2 cups total) cool whip
-1 prepared pie crust
-1 (11.75 oz.) jar of hot fudge ice cream topping
-1/2 cup sugar

Helpful hints - which I didn't notice until halfway through the recipe, so it's worth noting first:
-Be sure to allow the cream cheese to soften before getting ready to make the pie.
-Usually cool whip is found in the frozen section of the grocery store, but put it in the fridge before making this because it needs to be soft and thawed for this recipe.

How to Make the Pie (it's very simple):

1.  Put the 1 cup peanut butter, softened cream cheese, and 1/2 cup sugar in a bowl and mix with an electric mixer on medium until well combined.

2.  Gently mix in 3 cups of cool whip and stir by hand until combined.

3.  Add the mix to the pie crust and use a spatula to smooth the top.

4.  Save 2 TBS of the hot fudge for later by putting it in a plastic baggie.  Microwave the remaining hot fudge for about 1 minute.  Stir the fudge mixture and pour on top of the peanut butter mixture.

5.  Refrigerate the pie for 2 hours until the hot fudge cools and hardens.

6.  Spread the remaining whipped topping (1 1/2 cups) on top of the fudge.

7.  The top the the pie is decorated with hot fudge and peanut butter.  I don't have a fancy decorating tool, so I put the fudge in a plastic baggie and cut a small corner of the bag to allow the fudge to be spread across the top of the pie for decoration.

8.  Take about 2 TBS of peanut butter and put in a plastic baggie with a corner cut and decorate.

This pie is very tasty, try it and let me know what you think...