The Best Ever All-Butter PieCrust Quick and Easy

When baking pies, piecrust is the most important part of the pie. Making your own piecrust is no easy task for many people.

Following this recipe will teach you how to make the perfect all-butter piecrust your family and friends will rave about.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooling Dough Time: Minimum 2 hours

PieCrust Recipe

This recipe only requires 7 ingredients to create the best ever all-butter piecrust.

PieCrust Ingredients

• 1 cup of unsalted butter ( 2 sticks), cut into ½ inch cubes
• 2 Tbsp. of cider vinegar
• 2 ½ Cups flour making sure you use unbleached and that it is all-purpose
• 1 tsp. salt, kosher
• 1 tsp. of sugar
• Cold water
• Ice Cubes

Directions for Making the Perfect All-Butter Piecrust

Step One:

Place a few ice cubes and the cider vinegar in a one-cup liquid measuring cup. Fill the cup to the one cup mark using cold water.

Step Two:

Whisk together the unbleached flour, kosher salt, and sugar in a large bowl.

Step Three:

Add the cubed butter to the flour, sugar and salt mixture and toss to coat the butter.

Step Four:

Blend the butter into the mixture using your hands or a blender designed for blending pastry mix until the butter cubes become the size of peas and the mixture looks like oatmeal ensuring all the butter is blended in.

Step Five:

Remove the ice cubes from the measuring cup. Slowly drizzle ½ cup of the water-cider vinegar mix over the butter-flour mixture.

Step Six:

Using a fork, blend the mixture together until you can no longer see any liquid.

Step Seven:

Knead the mixture using your hands and form into a large ball ensuring to utilize all the dry pieces at the bottom of the bowl. If the mixture is too dry add some of the remaining water-cider vinegar a little at a time until the dough is the right consistency.

Step Eight:

If you think the dough requires more kneading, move it onto a lightly floured surface and continue to do so.

Step Nine:

Evenly separate the dough into two parts and form each into a 2-inch thick round. Wrap each of the portions in some type of plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours. Refrigerating overnight would be optimum.

Now that your all-butter piecrust is completed, you can roll out each portion on a lightly floured surface to fit a 9-inch pie pan. Add your favorite filling and bake accordingly.

Nutricial Facts Per Serving

• 173 Calories
• 11g total fat
• 15g carbohydrates
• 30 mg cholesterol
• 161 mg sodium
• 2 g protein

This amazing recipe is the result of the inspiration of author and pie-baker extraordinaire “Lisa Ludwinski”.

Note:

Using a European style high butterfat butter produces enhanced flavor and texture of all the ingredients.

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