All Butter Pie Crust
Servings: 1 crust
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 stick (½ cup) unsalted frozen butter, roughly chopped
- 3-4 tbsp ice water
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
- Add flour, salt and frozen chopped butter to a food processor.
- Pulse the ingredients until the butter is the size of green peas.
- Slowly drizzle in 2-4 tablespoons of ice water and pulse until the dough starts to come together.
- Shape dough into a disk, wrap in cellophane and refrigerate for one hour.
- After one hour, unwrap the dough and place it on a floured surface.
- Roll the dough out into a 12 inch diameter circle, then carefully place it into the center of your pie pan. Crimp edges.
- At this point, your pie dough is ready to be filled or blind baked. Follow your pie recipe accordingly to determine which technique you should use. This dough works great either way.