Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie (No Bake!)

Proof that pies don’t need heat to be spectacular.

I challenged myself to create a pie—a decadent pie—highlighting the multi-talented Vitamix® blender (in fact, I’d argue that it is way more than just a blender). This recipe uses the Vitamix for each of the four mixtures that ultimately come together into one singularly fabulous pie. The Vitamix does a bang up job of crushing chocolate wafer cookies for the crust; it pulverizes whole roasted peanuts into creamy homemade peanut butter; it mashes bananas like a banana mashing champ; AND it whips cream in literally 5.7 seconds. (Impressed? You should be. And don’t fret if you don’t have one, because I’m GIVING ONE AWAY right here. For real. Don’t miss it!)

As much as I would have liked to throw everything in the blender all at once and call it the 5.7 second pie (believe me, I tried), each mixture really needs to be prepared individually and then folded together in a specific order. But luckily, the Vitamix only needs to be washed once during the process, between the other steps a quick rinse will suffice. Because that may be my least favorite part of ANY nifty gadget: the cleaning.

We’ve had our Vitamix for over 5 years (and it’s still going strong). It was a wedding gift, and is easily one of the most used appliances in our kitchen. But one thing I had never ventured to make with it was homemade peanut butter.

Can I say what a revelation homemade peanut butter is? Because, hello, honey-roasted OMG. Seriously, honey roasted peanut butter SHOULD be a thing. WHY isn’t it a thing? I seriously can’t believe it isn’t.

But who cares, because I now know how easy it is to make it myself. The Vitamix turns peanuts into liquid gold in under 2 minutes.

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