Flaky Pie Crust
This Flaky Pie Crust Recipe, made from scratch with five simple ingredients, is foolproof and perfect for all your holiday baking.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- Not listed
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup ice water
Instructions
- 1
Measure all your dry ingredients in the bowl of your food processor and pulse to mix.
- 2
Cut the butter and shortening into pieces and add to the food processor. Pulse about 6-8 times until you have a crumbly mixture. (see notes)
- 3
Add the chilled water to this mixture and pulse about 4-6 times till the mixture is just blended (see notes)
- 4
Place the mixture in a clean dish towel and gently press into the shape of a disc. (see notes)
- 5
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill.
- 6
After 1 hour, remove the dough and flatten it gently on a floured work surface.
- 7
Start rolling out the dough till you have a round shape about 2 inches larger than the base of your pie pan. (see notes)
- 8
Gently transfer to your pan and remove the excess dough that is hanging. (see notes)
- 9
Crimp the edges as desired and then bake per instructions for your specific pie. (see notes)