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Favorite Pie Crust Recipes

Modified: Jan 2, 2025 · Published: Nov 13, 2014 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

Favorite Pie Crust Recipes -- Because I Could Never Pick Just One

A friend asked me to name my favorite pie crust recipes, so here's a list of my current top picks. For the most part, they are reliable and easy to work with. Whether you use a butter & shortening combo, all butter or all shortening is up to you. I usually use all-butter crusts for single crust pies and definitely for galettes and tarts. For fruit pies I go for butter & shortening combos.

Butter & Shortening Combo Crust

Coconut Cream Pie

Baked Flaky Pie Crust: This has become my favorite flaky pie crust recipe. It's made with mostly butter and a little shortening, and it is is very flaky. The recipe can be used for any pie and includes directions on how to blind bake if needed.

Favorite Pie Crust

Buttermilk Pie Crust: Buttermilk Pie Crust is another good one, but I tend to forget about it! The butter and buttermilk both add flavor and the shortening keeps it flaky.  It's moderately easy to work with.

Unbaked pastry crust for a 9-inch pie

Basic Unbaked Crust: Lately I've just been referring back to this chart and making this crust. It's mostly butter but has 2 tablespoons of shortening. Use the amounts of water as a guide, but add more if you need it.

All Butter Pie Crusts

Butter Crust

123 Butter Crust: A 1-2-3 butter crust. A 1-2-3 crust means it has approximately 2 ounces of liquid (1x2 part) 4 ounces of fat (2x2) and 6 ounces of flour (3x2). The key to making a good butter crust is not overworking it, letting the dough rest before using, and letting the dough rest again after you've lined the pan with it. Using a good brand of butter such as Plugra or Kerrygold Irish Butter seems to help. And of course, use very cold ingredients. Some people even freeze the blade of their food processor.

European All Butter Crust for Fruit Pies: For an all-butter crust, the crust used for Prize Winning Apple Pie is amazing. Unfortunately, it only works well in pie crusts that are not blind-baked. If you try to pre-bake it, the butter will pool up.

All Shortening Crusts

Ruth's Grandma's Pie Crust from Allrecipes.com is a winner. The egg makes the dough easy to work with and it tastes great when made with a combination of butter flavor and regular flavor shortening. Second place in the all-shortening category would be the basic Crisco pie crust on the Crisco website, but Ruth's Grandma's is a little easier to roll and makes plenty of dough.

 

More Homemade Pie Crusts Recipes Archive

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  • Unbaked pie shell with graham cracker flavored dough
    Rolled Graham Cracker Crust
  • Basic Pie Dough Recipe for 1 or 2 Crust Pie
  • Pie pastry recipe adapted from The Silver Palate Cookbook
    Baked Pie Crust -- Light and Flaky

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  1. Cheryl says

    November 16, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    Also saw a tip to let it rest 5 min after you roll it out and before placing it in the pie plate. Rest, rest, rest, to relax your dough and prevent shrinking when blind baking.

  2. Stephanie says

    November 15, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    Perfect! Thank you.

  3. Sue says

    November 15, 2014 at 11:31 am

    Nice review of pie crusts!

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