Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie: What Dreams Are Made Of

Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie: What Dreams Are Made Of, To challenge the whole-wheat aliment and graham absurd of my youth, I mix in some graham abrade forth with the accepted all-purpose. The consistent band is brittle and agilely nutty, and the absolute abject for a buttery peanut adulate custard, with a band of bright clabber on top. Tradesies encouraged.

Makes one 9-inch pie

For the crust:

¾ cup advantageous flour

½ cup graham flour

Pinch salt

8 tablespoons actual algid unsalted butter, cubed

Ice water, as needed

Egg wash, as needed

For the filling:

1 cup algid abundant cream

½ cup confectioners’ sugar

1 ¼ cups bland peanut butter

8 ounces chrism cheese, at allowance temperature

½ cup sugar

2 teaspoons boilerplate extract

½ cup good-quality jelly

Preheat the oven to 425° F. Prepare a 9-inch pie plate.

In a ample bowl, barrel the advantageous abrade and graham abrade to combine. Add the cubed adulate into the abrade to covering anniversary piece. Use your easily to bank the adulate amid the award of your easily or application your fingers. Abide until the pieces of adulate are about the admeasurement of walnut halves.

Make a able-bodied in the centermost of the abrade mixture, and add ice water. I alpha with 3 tablespoons for a single-crust pie, and again abide abacus 1 tablespoon at a time until the chef comes together. Wrap the chef and arctic it well, at atomic 30 minutes.

On a agilely floured surface, cycle out the chef to ¼- to 1/8-inch thick. Cycle the chef assimilate the rolling pin and acclaim alteration to the pie plate, amplification the chef off the pin and into the plate. Press durably to accomplish abiding the band alcove all the way to the basal of the plate, but don’t blow any holes in the dough. Trim the chef to accept a ½-inch overhang all the way around, and arctic it for 15 to 30 minutes.

Tuck the balance chef beneath at the edges, alive all the way about and acute agilely to advice the chef “seal” to the alien bend of the pie plate.

Crimp the edges as desired. Freeze the band for 15 minutes.

Place a section of block over the pie band and ample with pie weights. Broil until the band is agilely aureate brown, 15 to 17 minutes. Remove the block and pie weights, and besom the abject of the chef with egg wash. Return to the oven and broil until absolutely baked, 5 to 10 account more. Cool completely.

In the basin of an electric mixer, whip the chrism to bendable peaks. Add the confectioners’ amoroso and whip to average peaks. Set aside.

In the basin of an electric mixer, chrism the peanut butter, chrism cheese, and granulated amoroso until ablaze and fluffy, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the boilerplate and mix to combine.

Fold the aerated chrism into the peanut adulate base. Pour the bushing into the cooled crust. Bland into an even layer. Refrigerate the pie until the bushing is absolutely firm, 30 minutes.

Spread the clabber in an even band on the top of the pie. Keep algid until accessible to serve.

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