Nutter Butter Frozen Peanut Butter Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Crust
24 Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
5 tablespoons butter, melted
Filling
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip, thawed, divided

Preparation

To make crust*, crush the cookies in a zipper style plastic bag with a rolling pin, or in a food processor.
Mix cookie crumbs with butter.
Press into bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate.
Mix cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
Gently stir in 1 1/2 cups whipped topping.
Spoon into crust.
Freeze 4 hours or overnight until firm.
Let stand 1/2 hour or until pie can be cut.
Garnish with remaining whipped topping and additional cookies if desired.
Special extra: Just before serving, drizzle chocolate flavored syrup on plates.
*Ifdesired, omit Nutter Butter cookie crust and use an oreo crust instead.