Best Butter Pie Crust

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

Cut 2 sticks of butter into 1/2 inch cubes

Place into freezer for 20 minutes

Place 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, and salt in food processor and pulse a few times to mix.

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.

Move flour mixture to large bowl

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.

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.

Tightly wrap in plastic wrap and place in freezer for 20 minutes

Preheat oven to 425

Take dough out of freezer and unwrap

Get to your zen place. Roll out the dough. I suggest looking at the section above where I talk about rolling out the dough.

Place one pie crust on the bottom

Add whatever filling you need.

Add top crust

Use fingers to pinch crust together

Trim excess dough, but the crust will shink a bit, so leave a bit

Using fork, crimp the two doughs together further

Brush light coating of egg on dough crust

Sprinkle with sugar

Using knife, slit four holes in crust

Put in for 35 minutes

Remove tinfoil

Check every 5 minutes and remove when it looks done. 40-45 minutes

Let rest for at least 2 hours

SERVE

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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!