Easy Pie Crust Recipe
This homemade pie crust recipe yields a flaky and tender crust with rich buttery flavor. This recipe uses only butter (no shortening) so it is all natural. This recipe makes 2 pie disks, and you can use this pie dough for just about any recipe that needs a pie crust.
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cupsall-purpose flour
- ½ tbspgranulated sugar
- ½ tspsea salt
- ½ lbcold unsalted butter ((2 sticks) diced into 1/4" pieces)
- 7 tbspice water ((7 to 8 tbsp))
Directions
- 1
Place flour, sugar and salt into the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. You can also use a pastry blender* to make the dough.
- 2
Add cold diced butter and pulse the mixture until coarse crumbs form with some pea-sized pieces then stop mixing. Mixture should remain dry and powdery.
- 3
Add 7 Tbsp ice water and pulse just until moist clumps or small balls form. Press a piece of dough between your finger tips and if the dough sticks together, you have added enough water. If not, add more water a teaspoon full at a time. Be careful not to add too much water or overmix as this can make the dough sticky and difficult to roll out.
- 4
Transfer dough to a clean work surface, and gather dough together into a ball (it should not be smooth and DO NOT knead the dough). Divide dough in half and flatten to form 2 disks. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour before using in recipes that call for pie crust.