Cinnamon Free All-Butter Pie Crust
A truly great pie starts with the crust, and this all-butter version delivers that perfectly flaky, golden, melt-in-your-mouth base that makes every filling shine. With just five simple pantry ingredients — flour, salt, sugar, butter, and ice water — there's absolutely nothing hidden in here to worry about, making it a clean and trustworthy foundation for both sweet and savory pies. Store-bought crusts can be a minefield of unexpected spices and flavorings, so mixing your own from scratch puts you fully in control of what goes into your dish. The key to that irresistible flakiness is keeping the butter cold and working quickly, leaving those small pea-sized pieces intact so they steam and puff in the oven. Chilling the dough before rolling gives the gluten time to relax, which means it rolls out smoothly and holds its shape beautifully in the dish. Whether you're filling it with fruit, custard, or a savory quiche mixture, this crust is a reliable, crowd-pleasing base you'll come back to again and again.
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8 servings
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes and chilled
- 3–4 tbsp ice water
Instructions
- 1
Whisk together the flour, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl until combined.
- 2
Add the chilled butter cubes to the flour mixture and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with some pea-sized butter pieces still visible throughout.
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