Best Butter Pie Crust
By: Ben Myhre
Published: Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 6:12am

Ingredients




2 sticks of unsalted butter
2 1/2 cups white all purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup ice cold water (approximate)
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon sugar

Preparation

1 Cut 2 sticks of butter into 1/2 inch cubes 2 Place into freezer for 20 minutes 3 Place 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, and salt in food processor and pulse a few times to mix. 4 After butter has been in the freezer for 20 minutes, add to food processor and pulse 5-6 times. The goal is to mix the butter into the flour. The cubes of butter should be no smaller than peas. 5 Move flour mixture to large bowl 6 Add water to flour 2 tablespoons at a time. Toss with fork. We want to get to the point when you take your hand squeeze a handful of flour, it should stick together. For this one, it ended up taking 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons. 7 Once this is done, divide into two. Work each half until it sticks together somewhat well and is in a disk. We don’t want the butter to fully incorporate. If you need to add more water, you can, but do so only very sparingly. 8 Tightly wrap in plastic wrap and place in freezer for 20 minutes 9 Preheat oven to 425 10 Take dough out of freezer and unwrap 11 Get to your zen place. Roll out the dough. I suggest looking at the section above where I talk about rolling out the dough. 12 Place one pie crust on the bottom 13 Add whatever filling you need. 14 Add top crust 15 Use fingers to pinch crust together 16 Trim excess dough, but the crust will shink a bit, so leave a bit 17 Using fork, crimp the two doughs together further 18 Brush light coating of egg on dough crust 19 Sprinkle with sugar 20 Using knife, slit four holes in crust 21 Put in for 35 minutes 22 Remove tinfoil 23 Check every 5 minutes and remove when it looks done. 40-45 minutes 24 Let rest for at least 2 hours 25 SERVE

About

Seriously the Best Butter Pie Crust. It takes a bit of work, but this pie crust recipe is so delicious and worthy of the extra effort! With just a few ingredients, some care, and a little bit of time, you can make the flakiest and most delicious pie crust around. Yes, there are easier recipes out there, but there are none that taste as good as this. No matter the pie you are making that needs flour crust, this recipe has something for you!