Flaky Butter Pie Dough

The easiest pie dough.

Serves
makes Enough for 2 Crusts

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Updated on March 28, 2021

This all-butter pie dough makes an incomparably flaky crust for all types of fruit, nut, and custard pies. It first appeared in our November 2013 issue with the article Miss American Pie.

Ingredients

2 ¹⁄₄ cups flour
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
12 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled
6 tbsp. ice-cold water

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Instructions

Step 1

Whisk flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Using a dough blender, two forks, or your fingers, cut butter into flour mixture, forming pea-size crumbles. Add water; work dough until smooth but with visible flecks of butter. (Alternatively, pulse ingredients in a food processor.) Divide dough in half and flatten into disks. Wrap disks in plastic wrap; chill 1 hour before using.

Whisk flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Using a dough blender, two forks, or your fingers, cut butter into flour mixture, forming pea-size crumbles. Add water; work dough until smooth but with visible flecks of butter. (Alternatively, pulse ingredients in a food processor.) Divide dough in half and flatten into disks. Wrap disks in plastic wrap; chill 1 hour before using.