It was love at first taste. The peanut butter and chocolate danced across our tastebuds and mingled with the strong coffee to produce a near state of euphoria. I'm not going to say that this pie was the reason we kept returning each Fall, but it did definitely factor into our decisions. Then one year the unthinkable happened. There was a change, and as we got out of the car after an 1100km drive, tastebuds on high alert, we discovered that the menu had changed, there was no more Peanut Butter Pie. Imagine our disappointment as we exited the car, stiff and sore after a 12 hr drive only to discover it was gone. I think in retrospect that we may have had an obsession with this pie. We lamented our loss to all who would listen. It was a dark time.
It the course of these lamentations, we learned from someone that there was a "pretty good" Peanut Butter Pie to be had in Bridgewater, NS. We had to try this new one immediately. We left the shop we were in and headed to the River Pub. We had never been inside this establishment before and were pleasantly surprised to see that you could have a great view of the river while enjoying your chosen food or drink. We ordered the pie and when it came we were overjoyed to discover how good it was. It was a very good Peanut Butter Pie, and it was so much closer that we could enjoy it more often, which we did. Times were looking up for us in the pie department.
A few years later we were in Mahone Bay, only a few kilometers from Bridgewater and enjoying the Scarecrow Festival. After walking the town and seeing all the scarecrows, we decided to stop for a bite to eat. We looked around and saw a cafe/deli covered with pumpkins. The walls, the roof, everywhere there was a space, there was a pumpkin. So in we went. As we were walking by the display cases, THERE IT WAS, a Toblerone Peanut Butter Pie. JO-Ann's Deli was our new favourite place.
We had to try it. It looked so good and the name conjured up all the tastes that a dessert should have. We were not disappointed. We had found our new favourite Peanut Butter Pie. We really loved this one. We found ourselves looking to see if there were any festivals planned so we would have an excuse to go and have a piece of pie, it was that good. We talked about it to our friends and family. We wanted it to be popular so that it would survive. And all was right with the world.
As the years passed we got a bit more into cooking and making our favourites at home. We decided that it was time to see if we could recreate this pie at home. We searched cookbooks and the internet and finally found a recipe that looked on paper as though it was a contender. Here is the recipe that we used Tobleroene Peanut Butter Pie.
We made up the pie and as we waited for it to set, we kept our fingers crossed that it would turn out OK. We again were not disappointed. It was great, it was something awesome that we could have at home or take with us wherever we went, not just at one town. We were delighted.
We now had a recipe that we could make as we wanted and we could pack a piece of the pie in our picnic lunches when we were on the road. We discovered that we could freeze the pie and it was as good if not better served that way. We felt complete. Our new love now lived with us and we no longer had to travel to visit, we could enjoy whenever we wanted.
We hope you enjoy the pie and thank the original poster for putting the recipe up or all of us to find. In the interest of disclosure, none of the above mentioned establishments in any way sponsored our post, nor do they even know that we have mentioned them.
