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The Easiest & Flakiest

Pie Crust Recipe


This is solely non a recipe, precisely a tutorial on making a pretty pie... a step-by-step direct to crimping a pretty pie crust.  After all, close pies gustation great, precisely a actually pretty pie tin set it over the top!






The Easiest & Flakiest
Pie Crust Recipe

2 pie crusts

eighteen tablespoons mutual frigidity butter (2 sticks + 2 tablespoons)
iii cups all-purpose flour
one teaspoon common salt
2 tablespoons saccharide
half-dozen to 8 tablespoons H2O ice water

In a nutrient processor alongside the steel blade, add together flour, common salt in addition to sugar.  Cut butter into pocket-size pieces, thence add together it likewise the nutrient processor.  Pulse until the mixture is crumbly.  Slowly pour inwards H2O until the mixture begins to shape a ball or come upward together equally dough.

Dump it out onto a board in addition to shape it into ii disks.  Wrap inwards plastic twine in addition to allow it residuum inwards the fridge for xxx minutes.

Remove from the refrigerator, break in addition to house it on a good floured board.  Roll it out alongside a rolling pin, moving the dough inwards betwixt each gyre to shape a circle.

Fold it into quarters.

Put it into the pie plate alongside the betoken of the plication inwards the center.  Unfold.

Fold nether the edges to create a overnice 'bump' to a greater extent than or less the edge.

Pinch the border betwixt your pollex in addition to forefinger.  Move along the edge, all the agency around.

Use pie weights when baking if you lot are "Blind Baking" the shell, or baking the shell earlier it is filled similar you lot would for a cream pie, similar chocolate, banana or a lemon meringue.   These pie weights were my Granny's...  they likely filled 100's of lemon meringue pie shells.

Oops.  I forgot to prick the bottom earlier the pie weights went in!  You an brush the crust alongside an egg launder if you lot similar a golden crust.

Bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes until golden.

This is the crust later it was baked, thence filled alongside chocolate custard.  I used my friend (and cousin-in-law's) Lorin's recipe.  Lorin made this for my menage unit of measurement in addition to it was thence good, I begged her for the recipe.  Here it is!

Chocolate Custard Filling:
one loving cup sugar
iii Tbs cornstarch
¼ tsp salt
2 Cups milk
2 ounces unsweetened choc/or cocoa conversion
iii slightly beaten egg yolks
I tsp vanilla
2 Tbs butter

Combine sugar,cornstarch, chocolate in addition to salt: gradually add together milk. Cook in addition to stir over medium high oestrus till bubbly. Cook in addition to stir for 2 minutes. Stir moderate total of mixture into yolks: forthwith furnish to hot mixture in addition to railroad train 2 minutes stirring constantly. Remove from oestrus add together butter in addition to vanilla. Pour into shell.

Top it alongside mernigue :

Meringue:
iv egg whites
half-dozen tblsp. Granulated sugar
¼ tsp. cream of tarter
½ tsp. vanilla

With your mixer on high speed trounce egg whites, cream of tarter in addition to vanilla. Gradually add together inwards sugar. Beat until strong peaks form. Top pie alongside meringue in addition to bake at 350 until golden.

 Post toast.

Toasted meringue cloud!

Here is the slow to pivot strip!

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