Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups Chocolate cookie crumbs, 20 cookies

1/4 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Butter or margarine, melted

1 pkt Cream cheese, 8 oz, softened

1 cup Creamy peanut butter

1 cup Sugar

1 tablespoon Butter or margarine, softened

1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

1 cup Heavy cream, whipped

Grated chocolate or

Cookie crumbs, optional

Preparation

Combine crust ingredients; press into a 9-inch pie plate. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Cool. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, butter and vanilla until smooth. Fold in whipped cream. Gently spoon into crust. Garnish with chocolate or cookie crumbs if desired.

Refrigerate.

Yield: 8-10 servings

NOTES : Use regular pie crust, bake and while warm sprinkle shell with chocolate chips. Substituted lite cool whip for the whipped cream.

Excellent