Best 8 Perfect Pie Crust For Double Crust Pie Recipes

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Creating a perfect pie crust for a double crust pie is an art form that requires precise measurements, careful technique, and a bit of patience. Whether you're a seasoned baker or just starting out, mastering the art of pie crust making will elevate your baking skills and impress your friends and family with delicious, flaky, and golden-brown pies. This guide will take you through the essential steps and provide tips for creating the perfect pie crust that will enhance the flavors of your favorite fillings.

Here are our top 8 tried and tested recipes!

DOUBLE-CRUST PIE DOUGH



Double-Crust Pie Dough image

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking

Time 1h

Yield Makes enough for 1 double-crusted 9-inch pie

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 large egg
2 tablespoons ice water, plus more if needed
1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar

Steps:

  • Place flour and salt in a food processor. Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal with some blueberry-size clumps.
  • Beat together egg, ice water, and vinegar in a small bowl. Add to flour mixture and pulse just until incorporated, about 10 times more. Squeeze a small amount of dough to make sure it holds together. If dough is too dry, add more ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time. Divide dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap, forming each into 1 disk. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes and up to 2 days.

PERFECT PIE CRUST FOR DOUBLE CRUST PIE



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This is a tried and true Pie Crust recipe from my Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. I always get rave reviews on my pies and everyone agrees that the best part is the crust! Also note the tricks for making it easy to get into the pan and to keep it from getting too brown!

Provided by Reality

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h20m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
8 -10 tablespoons water

Steps:

  • In a medium bowl, stir together flour and salt. Cut in shortening using a pastry blender or fork until shortening is in pea-sized pieces (I usually use my hand crank chopper to do this).
  • Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing with fork in between, until all of the flour mixture is moistened and can be formed into a ball. Divide mixture in half.
  • At this point, you can roll dough into a 12 inch circle on a lightly floured surface, but I prefer to tape a 12 inch square piece of waxed paper to my work surface with double sided tape, put my dough on that, then cover with another piece of waxed paper, and roll out.
  • When dough is in a circle as big as your waxed paper (ie 12 inch circle), peel off the top layer of waxed paper and discard.
  • Lift the dough and bottom layer of waxed paper up and invert onto your pie pan. Gently peel the waxed paper off.
  • Do the same with the other 1/2 of your dough to make your top crust.
  • Before placing pie in the oven, wrap a 3 inch wide strip of foil around the edge of your crust, allowing 2 inches to fold over the top of your pie. 1/2 way through your bake time, carefully pull the foil off and finish baking. Your crust will turn out perfect every time!

Nutrition Facts : Calories 278.9, Fat 17.4, SaturatedFat 4.3, Sodium 219, Carbohydrate 26.8, Fiber 0.9, Sugar 0.1, Protein 3.6

PIE CRUST FOR DOUBLE CRUST



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Provided by Food Network

Time 15m

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
4 tablespoons cold water

Steps:

  • Mix flour and salt together in a bowl. Add the shortening and mix it into the flour and salt with a fork or your fingertips until the mixture has the texture of course crumbs. Mix in the water, little at a time. Refrigerate to chill before rolling out the dough.

PERFECT PIE CRUST



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Try this recipe for Perfect Pie Crust from Food Network's Ina Garten.

Provided by Ina Garten

Categories     dessert

Yield 2 (10-inch) crusts

Number Of Ingredients 6

12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/3 cup very cold vegetable shortening
6 to 8 tablespoons (about 1/2 cup) ice water

Steps:

  • Dice the butter and return it to the refrigerator while you prepare the flour mixture. Place the flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix. Add the butter and shortening. Pulse 8 to 12 times, until the butter is the size of peas. With the machine running, pour the ice water down the feed tube and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball. Dump out on a floured board and roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  • Cut the dough in half. Roll each piece on a well-floured board into a circle, rolling from the center to the edge, turning and flouring the dough to make sure it doesn't stick to the board. Fold the dough in half, place in a pie pan, and unfold to fit the pan. Repeat with the top crust.

CLASSIC LARD TWO-CRUST PIE PASTRY



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The way a pie crust should be made.

Provided by SandraJ

Categories     Desserts     Pies     100+ Pie Crust Recipes     Pastry Crusts

Time 1h15m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
⅔ cup lard
5 tablespoons ice water, or as needed

Steps:

  • Whisk flour and salt together in a large bowl. Cut in the lard with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle in water, 1 tablespoon at a time, blending gently with a fork or pastry blender until all flour is moistened and dough almost cleans the sides of the bowl. Divide the dough in half and shape flattened rounds. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 267.8 calories, Carbohydrate 23.8 g, Cholesterol 16.2 mg, Fat 17.4 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 3.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.7 g, Sodium 291.6 mg, Sugar 0.1 g

PASTRY FOR DOUBLE PIE-CRUST



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Use this recipe from our Test Kitchen when you need pastry for a double-crust or lattice-topped pie.

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 30m

Yield Pastry for 1 double-crusted or lattice-topped pie (9 or 10 inches).

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
6 to 7 tablespoons cold water

Steps:

  • In a bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in shortening until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Divide dough in half so one ball is slightly larger than the other., Roll out the larger ball to fit a 9-in. or 10-in. pie plate. Transfer pastry to pie plate. Trim pastry with even with edge of plate. Pour desired filling into crust. , Roll out second ball; cut slits in pastry. Position over filling. Trim pastry to 1 in. beyond edge of pie plate. Fold top crust over bottom crust. Flute edges. Bake according to recipe directions.

Nutrition Facts :

SIMPLE DOUBLE PIE CRUST



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Make and share this Simple Double Pie Crust recipe from Food.com.

Provided by PalatablePastime

Categories     Dessert

Time 20m

Yield 1 "9 inch double crust"

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup vegetable shortening
1/4 cup water

Steps:

  • Sift flour before measuring; spoon lightly into measuring cup and level without shaking or packing down.
  • Combine flour and salt.
  • With a pastry blender or two knives, cut in vegetable shortening until uniform; mixture should be fairly coarse.
  • Sprinkle with water, a tablespoon at a time; toss with a fork.
  • Work dough into a firm ball with your hands; divide dough into two parts and press into flat circles with smooth edges.
  • On a lightly floured surface, roll bottom crust to a circle about 1 1/2" larger than inverted pie plate.
  • Gently ease dough into pie plate; trim edge even with plate and add filling.
  • Moisten rim of bottom crust with water.
  • Roll top crust the same way and lift onto filled pie; trim 1/2" beyond the edge of pie plate.
  • Fold top edge under bottom crust and flute with fingers or fork.
  • Prick or slit top crust to allow for escape of steam; bake according to time and temperature recommended for filling used.

PERFECT PIE CRUST



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The perfect pie crust is tender, light, flaky, and golden and lends itself to all of the Thanksgiving favorites.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes     Pie & Tarts Recipes

Yield Makes two 8- to 10-inch crusts

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled, plus more for pie plate
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out dough
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water

Steps:

  • Cut each stick of butter into 8 pieces, and refrigerate until needed. Place the flour, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl, and mix to combine.
  • Add the chilled butter. Using a pastry blender, incorporate the butter into the flour mixture; the mixture should resemble coarse meal with small pieces of butter, the size of small peas, remaining visible.
  • Drizzle 2 tablespoons ice water over the flour-butter mixture, and blend. Repeat with an additional 2 tablespoons water. At this point, you may have to add more water: When a handful of dough squeezed together just holds its shape, you've added enough; if the dough crumbles, continue incorporating water, 1 tablespoon at a time, checking the consistency after each additional tablespoon.
  • Turn the dough out onto a clean work surface. Divide into two equal pieces, and place on two separate sheets of plastic wrap. Flatten, and form two disks. Wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
  • Lightly dust a clean, dry work surface with flour. Place the chilled dough in the center of the work surface, and dust the dough as well as the rolling pin with flour. Position the rolling pin on the center of the disk, and begin rolling the dough away from you. Give the disk a quarter turn, and roll again. Continue turning and rolling until you have an even 1/8-inch thickness. Turning the dough as you roll will prevent it from sticking to the work surface. A dry pastry brush is handy to remove any excess flour during and after the rolling process.
  • Lightly butter the pie plate. To minimize stretching when moving the dough, roll it around the pin, lift up, and unroll over the buttered pie plate. Using your fingers, gently pat the dough into place. Trim any excess dough with a paring knife or kitchen shears, leaving a 1-inch overhang; then fold dough under to reinforce the edge.

Tips:

  • Use cold butter: Cold butter is easier to work with and will help prevent the crust from becoming tough.
  • Work quickly: Don't overwork the dough, as this will make it tough. Work the dough just until it comes together.
  • Chill the dough: Chilling the dough before rolling it out will help prevent it from shrinking in the oven.
  • Use a light touch: When rolling out the dough, use a light touch to avoid tearing it.
  • Bake the crust until it is golden brown: This will ensure that the crust is cooked through and crispy.

Conclusion:

With a little practice, you'll be able to make a perfect pie crust every time. Just remember to use cold butter, work quickly, chill the dough, use a light touch, and bake the crust until it is golden brown. With these tips, you'll be able to make delicious pies that your family and friends will love.

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