Love ice cream? Try this Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream Pie! It’s like a grown up version of your favorite childhood sandwich, for dessert!
Hi Friends!
Today we’re taking a break from Sunday Food Prep because it’s Recipe Redux day. The theme for this month was pie:
Pie Love
Tucked in a crust, nothing says love from the oven like pie. Whether it’s a twist on the all-American apple pie or a traditional recipe from your home country, give a healthy makeover to your favorite savory or sweet pie recipe.
So here’s the deal. I’m not usually a huge pie person. I should say, I’m not a huge pie filling person. I love pie crust. I rarely love the inside of a pie. It’s almost always too sweet and I dunno….I just don’t dig it.
I am, however, a huge ice cream person. As I was thinking about this month’s challenge, my train of thought went something like this:
Pie crust = win.
Pie filling = lose.
Ice cream = win.
Pie crust + ice cream = double win.
And that’s how the idea for this pie was born. When I was deciding on a flavor for the pie, I looked in the fridge and saw a batch of this chia jam along with approximately 5 different jars of nut butter and voila!
I wanted something simple for the crust so I veered away from traditional pie crust. I also didn’t want the filling to be overly sweet – so went with 1/2 ice cream, 1/2 plain yogurt and then added some sweetness back in with the chia jam. You’re welcome to use all ice cream if you want to!
Sound like this pie is up your alley? Here’s how you make it:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream Pie
Love ice cream? Try this Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream Pie! It's like a grown up version of your favorite childhood sandwich, for dessert!
Ingredients
- 2 cups granola
- 3/4 cup peanut butter + extra to drizzle
- 2 cups vanilla ice cream
- 1.5 cups plain full fat yogurt (Greek or regular)
- 1 batch chia jam
Instructions
- Make chia jam according to directions.
- Mix granola and peanut butter and press into a pie tin.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes.
- Let the jam and pie crust cool and take ice cream out of freezer to soften.
- Combine ice cream and yogurt in a bowl and mix until well combined.
- Pour half ice cream mixture into pie tin.
- Swirl in half chia jam.
- Top with remaining ice cream mixture.
- Swirl in remaining jam.
- Freeze until solid, cut and drizzle with peanut butter before serving
Isn’t it pretty?! If you’re using a chunkier granola or one with more clusters and nuts you might want to place it in a ziploc bag and smash it up before mixing with the peanut butter, or throw it in the food processor and pulse it a few times to grind it up. Here’s the recipe for the chia jam. It makes about 1 cup and only takes about 10 minutes. Use your favorite fruit or fruit combo to make it!
To cool the jam and pie crust faster, stick them in the freezer for 20 minutes. Feel free to use your fav nut butter! (Or this Maple Cinnamon Sunflower Seed Butter)
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
Check out all the other delicious pie recipes in this month’s link up below:
We will LOVE this…I love that it is indulgent yet pretty healthy and the PB&J combo brings back that fun nostalgia feel of childhood too!
Love the use of peanut butter and granola to make the crust for the pie. Yum!
Haha, this is so fun! I love the granola crust Lindsay!
PB&J is a great combo! I posted a smoothie recipe for it last week. I love the addition of your chia jam here.
um ya, now i’m the one that is coming to your house to invade your fridge for this! PLEASE!!! YUM!
you can’t go wrong with PB and Jelly! Love this idea 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
holy cow amazing!! i’m a huge pb&j fan of all sorts!!
I love ice cream too. Great pie! I’ll admit I do like pie but only if it has a scoop of ice cream on it..lol.
So I crazily have Marionberry Pie ice cream from Tillamook… would that be too much berry in one PB&J pie? I am going to try and find out!
My husband would love this!! It looks delicious!
What a fun recipe!! I feel like this would be a great birthday cake alternative 🙂
Oh my goodness. AHHH this looks so delicious!
so creative. Pinned to my hate board.
you da best
OMG. This is like the perfect summer dessert. And so easy!!! I can’t wait to make it!
let me know what you think!
Yep. My favorite sandwich turned into ice cream which is my favorite dessert. This is a winner!
yay! win all around!
Okay, twist my arm — I’ll have a slice!
i’ll share 🙂
Lindsay, this PB&J pie looks amazing!! What a perfect summer treat!
What a fun dessert recipe this is. It really does take me back to the days of PB&J sandwiches.
Now this is a pie I can get down with! I am a huge ice cream cake lover, but to put into pie form is glorious. I am loving your crust recipe!! Pinning.
it’s a crust winner for sure!
I love ice cream and peanut butter and jelly! Pinning this for later for sure!
thanks so much!
Clever, creative, and so fun! Great recipe!!
Wait, you don’t like pie filling?! I LOVE pie filling! But it’s okay, I’ll forgive you because yes, ice cream and pie together are definitely a double win. Especially if it’s PB and J, which is one of my fave combinations ever!
haha…we need to eat pie together. filling for you, crust for me!
Hi I’m Sarah Grace, and I have an ice cream addiction. Thank you for feeding it :p
xo,
anytime girl
This looks delicious, Lindsay! I looooove the combination of PB&J, I’m always sneaking some of my kids’ sandwiches. This pie will be a bit hit with the family for sure!
i hope it is!!
Is that a granola peanut butter crust I see? Talk about wonderful!
you know it girl!
I love the idea of using granola as a pie crust! You so clever 😉