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Buttery Flakey Pie Crust

This incredibly flakey all butter pie crust is practically fool proof and will become your go to for all your pie and pastry treats!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword pie, pie crust
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 2 9" Pie Crusts
Author Holly

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter *2 sticks
  • 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp ice water

Instructions

  1. Whisk together flour, sugar and salt in a bowl.

    Cold Butter Cubes ready to be cut into the flour using a dough cutter or knives

  2. Cut the butter into small cubes and dump into the flour.  Using a pastry cutter or 2 knives cut the butter into the flour until no large lumps remain or all are pea sized or smaller.  

    All Butter Pie Dough recipe with butter being cut into the flour

  3. Add 1/4 cup of iced water at a time gently stirring with a fork.  add another 1/4 cup and again gently stir until larger clumps form.  Add additional water 1 Tbsp at a time IF NEEDED just until loose flour is almost incorporated. 

    All butter pie dough lightly mixed and ready to chill

  4. Split the dough into 2 equal portions and dump onto saran wrap.  Using your hands gently scoop and pack the dough into balls and loosely seal with saran wrap.  Pack the dough down into flat discs and place into the fridge for 2 hours.

    5 ingredients to make the most buttery flakey pie dough

  5. *after chilling, Remove dough from fridge and let warm up for 5-10 minutes until just warm enough to roll out.  Dough can be blind baked using pie weights or beans or filled with your favorite pie filling and baked according to recipe.  

    All butter pie dough chilled and ready to roll out

Recipe Notes

Pie crust can be brushed with egg wash before baking and depending on the length of time in the oven, the crust should be covered with tin foil or a silicone crust cover to keep it from browning too quickly!