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Perfect Pie Crust

By Simply Recipes

Perfect Pie Crust

Prep:1h 15min

If you're intimidated by pie dough, this flaky pie crust recipe is for you. We'll demystify the dough as we walk you through every step for the perfect pie crust. Use all butter or a combo of butter and shortening. Plus, learn how to blind-bake a pie crust.

Updated at: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:08:57 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

75

High

Glycemic Load

23

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories347.2 kcal (17%)

Total Fat23.4 g (33%)

Carbs30.3 g (12%)

Sugars0.6 g (1%)

Protein4.3 g (9%)

Sodium294.6 mg (15%)

Fiber1.1 g (4%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

8 servings

2 ½ cupsall-purpose flour

plus extra for rolling

1 cupunsalted butter

very-cold, cut into 1/2 inch cubes

1 teaspoonsalt

1 teaspoonsugar

6 tablespoonswater

Instructions

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Notes

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1 disliked

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Dakotah· last year

Love this recipe.

Bobbie Turner· last year

I pre baked it for a pumpkin pie- it is a no fail recipe 🙂—- I added a little cinnamon to it. Will use this again.

I pre baked it for a pumpkin pie- it is a no fail recipe 🙂—- I added a little cinnamon to it. Will use this again.

Noelle Moritz· last year

I use this recipe for every pie that I make that needs a classic pie crust. I use the all butter option for the recipe. I personally don't like putting shortening into my pie crusts, it gives off a weird mouth feel and it doesn't taste good. The flavor that the butter gives to the pie crust is amazing. When I make apple pies 🍎 🍏 🥧 I usually add a tsp of cinnamon into the dough as well. Adds a nice hint of spice. Furthermore, for the egg wash, I just take an egg and whisk it and use that as my egg wash. I take it a step further and I put King Arthurs Sparkling Sugar on top of the egg wash before baking and it looks beautiful and gives this amazing sweet crunch.