Frozen Peanut Butter Cottage Cheese Pie
A frozen cottage cheese pie that's made with a pretzel crust and a creamy peanut butter filling made with whipped cream and cottage cheese. It's the perfect summertime dessert!
Servings: 8
Ingredients
for the crust:
- 2 cups crushed pretzels* approx. 4 cups whole pretzels
- 3 tbsp cane sugar
- 10 tbsp butter melted
for the pie:
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tbsp cane sugar
- 1/2 cup Hood cottage cheese
- 3 tbsp creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup peanuts chopped
- Optional: 2 tbsp chocolate chopped
Instructions
- Crush pretzels in a blender or food processor, then add sugar and butter and mix to combine.
- Grease a pie pan with coconut oil or nonstick spray, then use your hands or a spatula to press crust into the pie pan, then place the pan in the freezer.
- Next, whip the whipping cream until stiff peaks form, approx. 4 minutes; then, add sugar, cottage cheese and peanut butter and stir to combine. Last, stir in the peanuts by hand.
- Scoop whipped cream out and into the crust, smoothing it out with a spoon or spatula. Top the filling with extra pretzels, peanuts and chocolate, then place the pie into the freezer for at least 4 hours.
- Remove pie 10 minutes before serving so it can thaw a bit. Then, cut and serve.
- Enjoy!
Notes
*to keep this gluten free, use gluten free pretzels