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How to make the Perfect Pie Crust + Giveaway

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It’s that time of year – time to fire up the oven, grab the rolling pin and get ready to bake the most delicious pie ever! Baking pies, in my opinion, is a bit of an art. But I think the more the practice, the easier it gets. And having the Perfect Pie Crust Recipe is a good start!  How to Make the Perfect Pie Crust | Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com

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How to Make the Perfect Pie Crust | Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com

With just a few simple ingredients, you can make your own perfect pie crust too! There are a few different methods to making a Pie Crust. Today I’m sharing how to use your Food Processor. If you don’t have a Food Processor, you can learn more from Michele Stuart in the Crisco Kitchen. Before you begin, be sure that your Crisco shortening is chilled and the water is ice cold.

How to Make the Perfect Pie Crust | Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com

For the Food Processor method – first combine the flour and salt.

How to Make the Perfect Pie Crust | Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com

Next, cut the chilled Crisco into pieces.

How to Make the Perfect Pie Crust | Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com

Add the Crisco cubes to the Food Processor and pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs with some pea-sized pieces remaining.

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Add half of the recommended amount of ice water, pulse until well combined. If too dry, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time.

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Wrap dough in plastic and form a disk. Chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes or up to 2 days.

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Perfect Pie Crust

Perfect Pie Crust

Yield: 1 pie crust
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Create the perfect pie crust with this recipe. Recipe on HoosierHomemade.com

Ingredients

SINGLE CRUST

  • 1 1/3 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 stick well-chilled Crisco® Baking Sticks All-Vegetable Shortening
  • OR 1/2 cup well-chilled Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
  • 3 to 6 tablespoons ice cold water

DOUBLE CRUST

  • 2 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 stick well-chilled Crisco® Baking Sticks All-Vegetable Shortening
  • OR 3/4 cup well-chilled Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
  • 4 to 8 tablespoons ice cold water

DEEP DISH DOUBLE CRUST

  • 2 2/3 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick well-chilled Crisco® Baking Sticks All-Vegetable Shortening
  • OR 1 cup well-chilled Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
  • 6 to 10 tablespoons ice cold water

Instructions

  1. Blend flour and salt in food processor or medium mixing bowl
  2. Cut chilled shortening into 1/2-inch cubes. Cut in chilled shortening cubes into flour mixture, using a pastry blender, in an up and down chopping motion, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs with some small pea-sized pieces remaining
  3. Sprinkle half the maximum recommended amount of ice cold water over the flour mixture. Using a fork, stir and draw flour from bottom of bowl to the top, distributing moisture evenly into flour. Press chunks down to bottom of bowl with fork. Add more water by the tablespoon, until dough is moist enough to hold together when pressed together.
  4. Shape dough into a ball for single pie crust. Divide dough in two for double crust or double deep dish crust, one ball slightly larger than the other. Flatten ball(s) into 1/2-inch thick round disk(s).
  5. Wrap dough in plastic wrap. Chill for 30 minutes or up to 2 days.
  6. Roll dough (larger ball of dough for double crust pie) from center outward with steady pressure on a lightly floured work surface (or between two sheets of wax or parchment paper) into a circle 2-inches wider than pie plate for the bottom crust. Transfer dough to pie plate by loosely rolling around rolling pin. Center the rolling pin over the pie plate, and then unroll, easing dough into pie plate.

Single Crust

  1. Trim edges of dough leaving a 3/4-inch overhang. Fold edge under. Flute dough as desired. Bake according to specific recipe directions.

Double Crust

  1. Roll larger disk for bottom crust, trimming edges of dough even with outer edge of pie plate. Fill unbaked pie crust according to recipe directions. Roll out smaller dough disk. Transfer dough carefully onto filled pie. Trim edges of dough leaving a 3/4-inch overhang. Fold top edge under bottom crust. Press edges together to seal and flute as desired. Cut slits in top crust or prick with fork to vent steam. Bake according to specific recipe directions.
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102 Comments

  1. Carmela C says:

    I’ll be making a combination of apple pies and pumpkin pies.

  2. Love your tips and tutorial. This holiday, I’m making apple pies and banana cream pies. 🙂

    amy [at] utry [dot] it

  3. Andrea D. says:

    I will be baking a cherry pie, pumpkin pie and raspberry pie.

  4. I will be baking my first pies – one apple and one pear streusel.

  5. Cassandra Eastman says:

    I’m making 2 pumpkin pies tomorrow!

  6. I will be making pumpkin pie!

  7. theresa krier says:

    pumpkin, cherry, chocolate

  8. Wanda McHenry says:

    I will be making pumpkin!

  9. Maggie Wallace says:

    Blueberry, chocolate, pumpkin and apple!

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