Easy Homemade Pie Crust
This recipe for Easy Homemade Pie Crust requires only 4 simple ingredients (and that includes water). Making a flaky, buttery pie crust from scratch is incredibly easy to do at home!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter cold cubed
- 1/2 cup ice cold water (1/2 cup to 3/4 cups of water. Start with 1/2 cup and add as needed)
Instructions
- To make the pie crust, add flour and salt in food processor. Add the cold butter and pulse it until it resembles coarse meal. [If you are not using a food processor, use a pastry cutter or two butter knives to cut the butter into the dry ingredients until you have small pea-sized crumbs.]
- Add 1/2 cup of ice cold water and pulse a few times. The dough should be beginning to clump together. If it is not, slowly add more water and pulse until it begins to clump together into a dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and divide the dough in half. Form each half into a ball. Flatten down into disks. Cover the disks with plastic food wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400F or desired temperature. [Tip: Instructions for baking will vary depending on the recipe you are using this pie crust for. Be sure to follow the instructions for the recipe you are following as this can affect the temperature and baking instructions. I have included general instructions in the blog post above as a general guide.]
- Using a floured rolling pin, roll the first disk out to be slightly larger than your pie dish. Carefully transfer onto pie plate and trim any excess dough.
- If you are using two pie crusts, roll out the second pie crust using the same method as the first. If you do not need to use the second pie crust, see above for instructions on freezing pie dough.
- Assemble and bake your pie according to the recipe you are using.
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