Pie Dough

I admit that making my own pie dough from scratch use to scare me to no end. Truth be told, many pastry type doughs still do scare me. However, this recipe changed my mind and hopefully yours on homemade pie dough. It is really so easy and makes a great base for any pie.

You only need 4 simple ingredients plus water:

1 1/4 cup flour
8 tbsp cold unsalted butter (1 stick)
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3 tbsp very cold water

 

- Combine flour, sugar, salt in a stand mixer, food processor, or mixing bowl.
- Cut stick of butter into 1 tbsp pieces
- Add butter to bowl of dry ingredients.

 

- If your using food processer, pulsate the butter into the flour mixture until it looks crumbly, if using a stand mixer turn on low until mixture is crumbly, if doing it by hand use a pastry cutter to mix butter and flour mixture until crumbly. You dont want to over mix it, you should see roughly pea-size clumps of butter throughout

 

- Add 3 tbsp of water and gently mix until dough can form a ball. Be careful not to overmix. You still want to see the pieces of butter within the dough, thats what makes it flaky.

 

-Put the ball of dough into a piece of saran wrap, flatten into more of a disk shape, wrap it up and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes. You can also freeze these if you are not using in the next few days.

-When ready to use, take dough out and let it thaw for a few minutes. Roll out onto a floured surface. Make sure you roll it out enough to cover the pie pan. Fill and bake according to whichever pie recipe you use.

-This recipe makes one pie dough. If using a pie recipe that requires a crust on top such as an apple pie, double the recipe! Delicious apple pie recipe coming soon.

Pie Dough recipe from Williams Sonoma