"there's no wrong way to eat a Reese's..."

I've always wanted someone to comment on how I eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup just so I could say to them that there's not wrong way to eat a Reese's. But unfortunately it hasn't happened yet but I haven't give up hope! So why the talk of peanut butter cups? Because I'm making a peanut butter cup pie of course! You would think it would be easy to find a pie recipe actually made out of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups but it's harder than one might assume. Luckily, I found this one...

http://cookeatshare.com/recipes/reese-s-peanut-butter-cup-pie-and-giveaway-413239

I wish I could tell you how it tastes but I'm literally still in the process of making it. The problem with no bake pies is how much time you spend waiting around. Right now I'm waiting for the stupid chocolate peanut butter part to chill. I think I only have an hour left and then I can finish it. Let's talk pie making:

What you need:

• 12 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (I actually used 14 though)
• 1 8 oz package cream cheese - room temperature (which mine was still cold because I didn't have time to waste waiting for it to warm to "room temperature")
• 1 ready made graham cracker pie crust (feel free to make your own but I say "f that")
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2 TBS powdered sugar
• 2 TBS Dream Whip

For starters, it's always good to have a little help in the kitchen: Dexter is my helper :)

The first part of the recipe might be the hardest: unwrapping the peanut butter cups and NOT eating them. Melt the peanut butter cups in a double boiler (which I improvised and just used two pots that kind of fit together!) on medium heat (but I did high!) until they're melted enough to be able to whip.

Let the peanut butter cups cool a little bit and then add the cream cheese and blend until they're smoooooooth (which I found mine wasn't so smooth when I started pouring it into the crust which is clearly the next step).

 Slop the chocolately/peanut buttery deliciousness into the pie crust and off to the refrigerator it goes for a whopping 2 HOURS. (I told you there's a lot of hurry up and wait!)

Now because I don't like to wait, I moved on to the next step which is the making of the whipped topping. Mix the heavy cream, powdered sugar, and Dream Whip in a glass bowl. And by mix I mean, whip it, whip it good! Whip it until the topping forms moutainous peaks (keep in mind my picture below is not as "peaky" as it should be but I got sick of holding the hand mixer!

Once the whipped topping peaked to what I considered "good enough" I covered it and put it in the fridge to chill while the rest of the pie continued to chill. While the pie "pieces" chilled I also decided to chill with something a little bit healthier than the impending pie...

After the pie has been chillin for two hours, pour the whipped topping on top of the chocolate peanut butter cream cheese goo in the pie crust and then garnish with something to make it pretty. I used cut up Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (because really you can never have too many peanut butter cups!)

Before I post the final creation, here are the two important lessons I learned while making this pie:

#1 if someone looks in your garbage right after you make this pie chances are they might think that you just broke up with your boyfriend...

 #2 when they say "whip until stiff peaks form" you should listen to them...

And there it is: Pie #3 The Reese's Peanut Butter Pie - it's just one more way to eat a Reese's (I know, corny).

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around" - Edgar Watson Howe

They say there's no better way to a man's heart than through his stomach. There might be some truth to this especially when the man loves pie! And it's kind of crazy when you find yourself perusing the internet to find yummy, scrumptious and different pies to make to appease your man's sweet tooth. Well, this is something that I've been doing. And honestly, I think finding the perfect pie to make is actually more difficult than making the pie itself!

So today I found myself perusing the internet for a pie to make for my honey. I happen to find it on a blog with step by step directions and pictures. I made my way to the store in the freezing cold to pick up the much needed supplies that I could not find in my house (mostly because I only go shopping when I need something!). When I began melting the peanut butter cups (that's right, peanut butter cups) I got the bright idea to be like everybody else and blog about the recipes I make. Bam! Enter my new blog "the world through my pies..." Luckily, I'm not very far behind in my pie making but for the sake of blogging about all the pies I make for my man the first two will be included here with links to the recipes and what I thought of them. And here we go...

Pie #1
The first pie I ever made for my darling dear pie lover was a banana cream pie from scratch. (mostly from scratch! I did cheat with the pie crust but who doesn't???)

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/banana-cream-pie-i/Detail.aspx

I quickly learned that making pudding from scratch takes FOREVER! I'm slightly convinced that I'm still making it right now and I made this pie MONTHS AGO! But I also learned that homemade pudding from scratch is faaaaaaaar better tasting than pie from a box. That means I give this pie high marks even though I'm not a banana fan. My only gripe: for some reason my decorative bananas that were oh so carefully placed on top as decoration, ended up looking like mushrooms by the time I delivered the pie. Luckily, they tasted like bananas still!

Pie #2
I think it's safe to say that this is the BEST PIE EVER and I say this after only making one other pie. I would seriously eat this pie all day. I can't even describe the deliciousness but here's the recipe:

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/recipes/double-cherry-pie-538571/

I can honestly say that I made this entire pie from scratch! And I would DEFINITELY make it again. Actually I almost made it tonight but I opted for something else which you will read about later. This pie didn't last very long (not that the last one did either but so far this is record timing). All I can say about this pie: MAKE IT! and when you make it, please send me some :)

Now that I got the two initial pies out of the way, let's start the real thing... with pictures :)

(oh! and for the record, I don't think my man would be a hero when it comes to pie but I'm absolutely positively okay with that because that's less pie in the world for me to eat!)