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Perfect Pie Crust – Apple Pie

November 28, 2011 by mydanishkitchen

Perfect Pie Crust

The Holiday season is upon us and with so many foods to be baked and cooked it is really tempting to use a store-bought pie crust instead of making your own. However, this pie crust is both delicious and quick and easy to make…so why use a store-bought? This Perfect Pie Crust comes out light and flaky and it contains more butter than vegetable shortening (which I like) plus it can easily be made a day ahead saving you precious time on your busy day 🙂

Ingredients:

12 tablespoons very cold unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks)

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon sugar (plus more for sprinkling)

1/3 cup very cold vegetable shortening

6-8 tablespoons ice water (about 1/2 cup)

1 egg, beaten for egg wash

Directions:

Measure out ahead of time the vegetable shortening and place in refrigerator to allow to get very cold.

Dice the butter and place back in refrigerator until ready to use. Place flour, salt and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade and pulse a few times to mix. Add the cold butter and shortening. Pulse until the butter is the size of peas (8-12 pulses). With the machine running, add the ice water through the feed tube. Continue to pulse until the dough begins to form a ball. Divide dough into two equal parts and form each dough ball into a slightly flattened disk. Wrap each dough disk tightly in plastic wrap and store in a large zip-loc bag. Place dough in refrigerator until ready to use. Can easily be stored in refrigerator overnight.

When ready to make your pie, make sure your work surface is well-floured. Place first disk on floured surface and roll out into a circle, making sure to frequently move and flip the dough, adding more flour as needed to ensure dough does not stick to work surface. Gently roll dough onto rolling-pin and lift to pie dish letting the dough extend over the edges. When fitting the dough into the baking dish, do not stretch dough as it will shrink a little during baking. Fill with pie filling and brush the edge of dough with egg wash so top dough will adhere. Roll out second dough disk and place on top of filled pie. Trim the edges to about 1/2 inch over the rim. Crimp the two layers of dough together using your fingers or a fork. Brush the entire top crust with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. Cut four or five small slits in dough to allow venting. Place on a baking sheet and bake pie at 400 degrees. The baking instructions I had said to bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours or until the crust is browned. However, oven temperatures may vary and my pie was done in just 45 minutes so I would recommend to watch the pie like a hawk while baking or if your oven tend to run a little on the hot side, perhaps lower the temperature.

Perfect Pie Crust

Source: Barefoot Contessa Family Style

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Posted in Autumn, Dessert, Pastry, Pie, Thanksgiving | Tagged apple, apple pie, baking, crust, dough, Pie | 8 Comments

8 Responses

  1. on December 2, 2011 at 19:58 torviewtoronto

    pie looks wonderful bookmarking


  2. on December 2, 2011 at 17:28 spcookiequeen

    How funny Gitte, I just did a pie post. Hoping you had a wonderful holiday, beautiful pie.
    -Gina-


  3. on December 2, 2011 at 10:11 Michelle

    This certainly is perfect!


  4. on December 2, 2011 at 10:10 Kelly

    What a gorgeous pie crust, this looks amazing!! Feel free to stop by my blog and check out the $50 Williams-Sonoma gift card giveaway going on right now! xoxo


  5. on December 2, 2011 at 08:48 Tina@flourtrader

    This is an awesome looking pie. There is so many different ways to do pie crust, but I agree that the combo of shortening and butter is the best. Your pie certainly reflects that in the picture-delicious.


  6. on November 29, 2011 at 20:44 Lindsay {Life and Kitchen}

    I love that you use both butter and shortening. I never know which is better, so both is a great combo!


  7. on November 29, 2011 at 07:34 Liz

    One word: BEAUTIFUL!!!


    • on November 29, 2011 at 20:27 mydanishkitchen

      Thank you Liz 🙂



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