Best 5 Flaky Strawberry Pie Recipes

OLD FASHIONED STRAWBERRY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Place one crust in a nine inch pie pan.
• Mix together sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Mix lightly through the berries. Pour filling into pastry lined pan, and dot fruit with butter or margarine. Cover with top crust, and cut slits in the top. Seal and flute the edges.
• Bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until the crust is slightly browned.

FLUFFY STRAWBERRY PIE

Steps:

• Mix strawberry-flavored gelatin mix, sugar, and boiling water together in a large bowl, stirring until gelatin and sugar have dissolved.
• Refrigerate gelatin mixture until it begins to turn thick and syrupy, about 10 minutes.
• Gently fold frozen whipped topping into the gelatin mixture until thoroughly combined.
• Fold the 2 1/2 cups of sliced strawberries into the whipped topping mixture.
• Spoon filling into the graham cracker crust and decorate edge of filling with 8 strawberry halves.
• Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.

FLAKY STRAWBERRY PIE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine 4 teaspoons milk and water; gradually add to crumb mixture, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle., Preheat oven to 450°. Roll out pastry to fit a 9-in. pie plate. Transfer pastry to pie plate. Trim pastry to 1/2 in. beyond edge of plate; flute edge of pastry. Line unpricked pastry shell with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake 8 minutes. Remove foil; bake 7 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack., In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and remaining milk until smooth. Spread over bottom of crust; arrange strawberries over the top., In a saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch, salt and water until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat; stir in gelatin until dissolved. Chill until partially set. Pour over berries. Refrigerate until set.

FLUFFY STRAWBERRY PIE

Steps:

• In medium bowl, mix flour and salt. Cut in shortening, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until particles are size of small peas. Sprinkle with cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all flour is moistened and pastry almost leaves side of bowl (1 to 2 teaspoons more water can be added if necessary).
• Gather pastry into a ball. Shape into flattened round on lightly floured surface. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate about 45 minutes or until dough is firm and cold, yet pliable. This allows the shortening to become slightly firm, which helps make the baked pastry more flaky. If refrigerated longer, let pastry soften slightly before rolling.
• Heat oven to 475°F. With floured rolling pin, roll pastry into round 2 inches larger than upside-down 9-inch glass pie plate. Fold pastry into fourths; place in pie plate. Unfold and ease into plate, pressing firmly against bottom and side. Trim overhanging edge of pastry 1 inch from rim of pie plate. Fold and roll pastry under, even with plate; flute as desired. Prick bottom and side of pastry thoroughly with fork. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown; cool on cooling rack.
• In large bowl, pour boiling water over gelatin; stir until gelatin is dissolved. Stir in lime peel and lime juice. Refrigerate about 1 hour or until very thick but not set.
• Beat gelatin mixture with electric mixer on high speed about 4 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally, until thick and fluffy; set aside. In chilled large bowl, beat whipping cream and powdered sugar on high speed until stiff. Gently stir whipped cream and crushed strawberries into gelatin mixture. Pour into crust. Refrigerate about 3 hours or until set. Garnish with whipped cream and strawberry halves. Store in refrigerator.

STRAWBERRY PIE WITH WHIPPED TOPPING

Steps:

• Roll out dough 1/8 inch thick on a lightly-floured surface; fit it into a 10 inch glass pie plate, crimping edge decoratively.
• Chill for 30 minutes.
• Prick pastry lightly with a fork, line with foil and weight with dry beans or pie weights.
• Preheat oven to 375F and bake crust for 10 minutes, remove beans and foil, sprinkle bottom with almonds, and bake 10-12 minutes more, or until almonds are golden.
• Let cool.
• Hull and slice 1 pint of the strawberries and in a saucepan, combine them with ¼ cup water and sugar.
• Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved, and simmer 3 minutes.
• In a small bowl, stir together cornstarch and ¾ cup water, add to cooked strawberries and bring to a boil.
• Simmer, stirring, for 3-5 minutes, or until thickened, and stir in lemon juice.
• Hull remaining 1 ½ pints strawberries, arrange in pie shell, and pour cooked strawberry mixture over.
• Chill pie for 3-4 hours or until set.
• In a chilled bowl, beat cream, vanilla extract and icing sugar until it holds soft peaks and serve with pie.