About a month ago, I was having dinner with my family. I was talking to my wonderful sister-in-law, Jennifer. We were talking about a healthy option to order for dinner at the restaurant. We talked about exercising. We talked about using MyFitnessPal app to keep on track. (Which it’s been a huge FAIL for me on that one.)
So, after talking about dieting…..we talked about candy bars!
It’s completely logical.
The candy bar conversation eventually came around to Butterfinger. I shared with her that when I’m finished eating a Butterfinger, I clamp my teeth closed tightly for about 10 seconds. I told her that I get a weird kick out of the Butterfinger flaky center sticking to my teeth and I like un-sticking my clenched teeth. (I’m a dentist’s dream.)
I expected my sister-in-law to give me a “You’re crazy!” look. But instead, she leaned in and said, I DO THAT TOO!!
It’s fate that we’re related.
Frozen Butterfinger Pie
Recipe from Cooking Light March ’99
Ingredients:
40 chocolate graham cracker (10 full sheets of graham crackers)
1 & 1/2 tbl butter, melted
1 large egg white
4 cups fat-fee vanilla frozen yogurt
3 tbl light corn syrup
3 tbl reduced fat creamy peanut butter
1 tbl skim milk
1 Butterfinger, chopped (or you can use several fun-sized Butterfinger)
Calories per serving: 230
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9 inch pie plate with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
Place graham crackers into your food processor. Pulse graham crackers until crumbly. Add your melted butter and egg white into the food processor. Pulse until moist. Press your graham cracker crumb mixture into your pie plate. Bake for 8 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Then place the pie plate in the freezer for 15 minutes.
While your crust is in the freezer, remove the fat-free frozen yogurt from the freezer. Let it stand at room temperature for 15 minutes to soften. Spoon half of the frozen yogurt onto your graham crust and spread.
In a small bowl, combine the corn syrup, peanut butter, and skim milk. Whisk until smooth. Put half of the peanut butter mixture on top of the frozen yogurt. Lightly use your whisk to swirl it around.
Sprinkle half of the chopped Butterfinger on top of the peanut butter mixture.
Repeat the layers with the 2nd half of your frozen yogurt, peanut butter mixture, and chopped Butterfinger.
Cover your ice cream pie with plastic wrap. Freeze for 3 hours to firm up before serving.
Does anyone else do the Butterfinger eating/teeth clenching?????
Ummmm…this looks TOTALLY delicious!
It IS totally delicious, Sarah! 🙂 BTW, that picture of your pug on your blog CRACKS ME UP!!!!!!!
Oh my! I could go for a big slice of that pie right now! It looks really really good!
I do that too! Hahaha this pie looks amazing! Perfect for these hot nights.
Oh Lindsey!! We need to form a sticky Butterfinger teeth club! 😉
Yum! Butterfingers are awesome, especially frozen, love this Julie!
Thanks Cassie!!
Love frozen pie. Yours looks great!
Cooking Light has the best recipes. This look delicious! I don’t tend to eat butterfingers plain but I always order a butterfinger blizzard at DQ.
What a pie! Yum!
“Yum” was the first word that came to mind when I saw this recipe & I see I wasn’t the only one!
Oh yummy and relatively light. I love the egg white to hold the crust together instead of massive amt of butter. Great recipe.
This pie is amazing! I am so in the teeth clenching camp with Butterfinger as well!
Erin…I knew you’d be on my team. 🙂
YUM!!!!!!! This looks SO HONKIN GOOD – and it’s from Cooking Light?! Good golly.
230 calories, Seriously!!!!
That’s what Cooking Light says!! I’m sure MINE was more since I went heavier with the crumbled Butterfinger. 🙂
Julie, Julie, JULIE! 😀 This looks amazing! And so versatile… you could use a number of different candies! I love it!
Yum! This looks like a lot more fun to talk about than dieting:-)
Yumm!!! Isn’t it funny how women get together and immediately start talking about food? It’s quite the “hot topic” between me and a few female co-workers. Too funny!
Julie! That is a great post. And revealing your clenched teeth approach to savoring butterfingers tells me how much you appreciate it! This pie is beautiful! : )
Butterfinger? Pie? Oh I might need a slice of that.
Okay, not only does this look DELICIOUS, but every time i see a peanut butter flavored pie, it’s made with cream cheese and i HATE cream cheese. I am so thrilled to see one without it! I’ll be giving this a try for sure.
The pie looks amazing. I love butterfingers I will have to try this.
That pie looks delicious!! I love anything with pb and chocolate! 😀
Sounds fantastic.