Peanut butter cream pie keto recipe is creamy, smooth and flavorful. Peanut butter cream with chocolate ganache on delicious low carb chocolate pie crust.
Do you like cream pies? Oh, I love keto cream pies and I love peanut butter. Peanut butter is great ingredient you can use in keto baking and especially in keto desserts.
Keto peanut butter pie is delicious choice for any occasion, weekend baking, birthdays or when you just want some no guilt sweets.
Peanut butter pie goes great with a cup of coffee. I love it on a weekend's mornings. Usually I don't have breakfast but during the weekend I wake up before others and I have 2 hours until they wake up.
So, I enjoy my long coffee time with a slice of good keto cake. And there's nothing better than a slice of creamy keto pie to enjoy.
This cake is favorite to my keto kids also! They are not on keto all the time, they also eat some fruits and their food is more paleo with diary. We don't have sugar and sugary products in our house, only keto desserts. Of course, as sugar is everywhere we can't avoid sugar when we are visiting family but we try to have sugar free home definitely.
I notice how they behave strange and irritating when having some non-keto sweets during the visits of family and friends. When eating keto sweets, I don't observe that.
Tips to make keto peanut butter cream pie
Chocolate low carb crust is combination of blanched almond meal, low carb sweetener, melted butter and unsweetened cocoa with a small pinch of salt. Put that pinch of salt when you prepare something with cocoa or chocolate. Salt elevates chocolate flavor and gives special touch to chocolate desserts.
Peanut butter filling is the best if you combine unsweetened smooth peanut butter, mascarpone cheese, sweetener and vanilla extract. Rum or rum extract works good in this combination too.
Rich chocolate ganache is so easy to make. Just bring heavy whipping cream to boil, remove from the heat, pour over the dark chocolate, whisk well until combined and smooth, and voila! You have delicious, rich and creamy ganache.
To make keto chocolate ganache, use dark unsweetened chocolate with more than 80% coco and add some low carb sweetener. Great alternative is to use dark chocolate already sweetened with stevia or erythritol.
As you can see on the photos of this peanut butter keto pie, I put some chopped wolfberries or goji berries and chopped peanuts on top jut to garnish. It looks better on photos! 🙂
Try my other recipes!
For every cream pie enthusiast, my keto coconut cream pie is a must try! Of course, if you love coconut. If you are not a huge fan of coconut, but you love pies, definitely you should try my low carb blueberry pie of keto pecan pie cheesecake! You will love it! 🙂 These pies are huge hit in keto community.
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Peanut butter cream pie – keto recipe
Peanut butter cream pie keto recipe is creamy, smooth and flavorful. Peanut butter cream with chocolate ganache on delicious low carb chocolate pie crust.
Ingredients
- Ingredients for crust
- Blanched almond meal 1 cup/95 g/3.4 oz
- Unsweetened cocoa powder 1 TBS/5 g/0.17 oz
- Low carb sweetener (erythritol) 5 TBS
- Pinch of salt
- Melted butter 80 g/2.8 oz
- Ingredients for peanut butter filling
- Smooth unsweetened peanut butter ½ cup/110 g/3.9 oz
- Mascarpone cheese 1 cup/250 g/8.8 oz
- Low carb sweetener (erythritol) 5 TBS
- Heavy whipping cream 1 cup/200 ml
- Vanilla extract 1 tsp
- Ingredients for chocolate ganache
- Heavy whipping cream 1 cup/200 ml
- Dark chocolate chopped 80 g/2.8 oz
- Low carb sweetener erythritol 1 TBS (optional)
Instructions
CRUST
- Prepare deep 17 cm/7 inch cake tin or a deep pie tin layered with a parchment paper. This pie or cake is high.
- Mix together blanched almond meal, cocoa powder, low carb sweetener of your choice and pinch of salt.
- Add melted butter and mix until you get the dough.
- Press the dough in a pie tin or cake tin layered with a parchment paper.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 5 - 10 minutes on 180 C/350 F (it depends on your oven, maybe you will need few minutes more).
- Leave crust to cool for at least 15 minutes before pouring the peanut butter cream.
PEANUT BUTTER CREAM
- Mix together peanut butter, heavy whipping cream, sweetener, mascarpone cheese and vanilla extract until nice and smooth cream combined.
- Mixture should be smooth and creamy.
- You can whisk it or mix with electric mixer. Don't over mix it.
- When nice and smooth cream combined pour it on a chocolate crust.
CHOCOLATE GANACHE
- In a sauce pan bring heavy whipping cream to boil. When starts boiling remove from the heat.
- Add chopped chocolate and whisk until chocolate completely melted and nicely combined with cream.
- Pour prepared ganache over the peanut butter cream.
- Leave cake to cool for few hours. The best is over night.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Use deep cake tin 17 cm/7 inch or deep pie tin.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1 sliceAmount Per Serving: Calories: 259Total Fat: 31gNet Carbohydrates: 4.8gProtein: 6.8g
This is for your information only, calculate your own macros with ingredients you use.
Debby says
Do you chill the cake for a certain amount of time before adding ganache?
Family On Keto says
Hi Debby, you can do it, but you don't have to, just pour it gently.
Silvia says
Hi there …is the blanched almond MEAL same as blanched almond FLOUR? What brand are you using? Thanks much!
Family On Keto says
Hi Silvia, yes, almost the same! I use local brand, so any almond flour will work for this recipe.
Stephanie says
Making this today for my birthday treat tomorrow, can’t wait! Is the size of the pan you used 7 inches deep, or 7 inches in diameter? I have a deep 9-inch (diameter) springform pan I’d like to use so maybe I should increase the amounts of the ingredients a bit?
Family On Keto says
Hi Stephanie, it's diameter! Happy birthday!
Kim says
Hi. Do use granular sweetener in the peanut layer or confectionary? Concerned it might taste grainy. Thanks.
Family On Keto says
Hi, You may use powdered sweetener definitely!
Kari Anne says
Hands-down the best keto dessert I have ever made. I added a little more chocolate to the ganache so I set up a little bit better. The first time I made it the pie, the ganache was more like a pudding, so I agree that a little extra chocolate makes it set up a little bit better. Even our non-keto friends raved about how delicious this pie is. I have been keto for six years and I’ve tried many many many recipes, again, hands-down this is the very best dessert I have ever made on a ketogenic diet. Thank you so much for creating a keeper for our family.
Family On Keto says
Dear Kari Anne, thank you so much for this wonderful comment! I'm so happy to hear this!
sarah says
can you freeze this?
Family On Keto says
Hi Sarah, yes, you can even freeze this pie!
Rachel says
Which peanut butter do you use?
Family On Keto says
Hi Rachel, I buy smooth unsweetened peanut butter in a local store. I am in Europe. Just look for unsweetened withouth added sugar or oil.
TC Craven says
This is absolutely amazing and thank you for sharing. I shall definitely be making again. May I just check the amount of butter in the crust (80g) as my base was very runny and took 30 mins to bake. Many thanks. TC
Family On Keto says
Hi, well, next time you can reduce the amount. It depends on almond meal and cocoa also. If one of these contain more fat you may reduce the amount of butter. It depends a lot of type of almonds, brand, etc. Thank you for your comment! I am happy to hear that you love it! 🙂
Stephanie says
I too was worried about the ganache setting up and ended up tossing another 20g of chocolate into it - but it turned out amazing. I didn’t have enough mascarpone so I subbed half cream cheese and it’s not even noticeable. This is one of the best keto desserts I’ve made and we’ve been keto for almost 4 years now!
Family On Keto says
Hi Stephanie, thank you so much for commenting! I'm so glad you love it! 🙂
Nick says
This was utterly awesome! I can honestly say I was skeptical as the ganache was extremely runny, but other than that, it was VERY VERY good. One of the best low carb desserts I’ve made yet.
Family On Keto says
Thank you for commenting! I am so glad to hear this! 🙂