Easy to Make Summer Pies-Versatile Crust Recipe
Crust recipe has basic ingredients and procedure in making, You can use cookies, grahams, biscotti, even crackers. If you use shortbread cookies, you should reduce the butter and sugar content by 2 tablespoons. Shortbread cookies are butter and sugar filled cookies and would be to “wet” for a crust if you don’t reduce the recipe.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 37 minutes
- Yield: 1-9" pie crust 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
1½ cups ground graham crackers*
¼ cup granulated sugar
6 tablespoons melted butter
¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
In food processor process crackers into crumbs, add melted butter and salt. Process to combine. Lightly spray 9” pie plate or deep-dish tart pan with cooking spray covering bottom and sides of dish. Bake or chill crust as recipe directs. For 10 “ pie crust add ½ cup crumbs to recipe + 2 Tablespoons sugar and 2 additional tablespoons melted butter.
* Make it Yours: Substituting graham crackers for gingersnaps, vanilla wafers, buttery crackers, or chocolate sandwich cookies. No matter the crumb the recipe is the same.
Notes
Tips:
- Chill the crust while making the pie filling if cream pies are baked.
- This recipe is for cream pies or canned fruit type pies only.
- Press crumbs on sides of tart shell first then the press the bottom crumbs.
- Use the bottom of a small measuring cup to help press the the crust in the pan.
- Best crumb results use a food processor with steel blade.
*If you use buttery shortbread cookies, you should reduce the butter and sugar content in recipe by 2 tablespoons. Shortbread cookies are butter and sugar delicious cookies. Making a crust with these cookies makes the pie sweet and buttery, but if you use too much butter/sugar the crust will not hold up well, it will be too wet to form into tart pan or pie shell.
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