All-Butter Pie Crust From My Food Processor
an easy all butter pastry dough recipe that mixes up in minutes - ready to roll out to make a pie
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups cake and pastry flour
- 1 cup unsalted butter cold & cut into small chunks
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup ice cold water
Instructions
- Place the dry ingredients into the bin and pulse.
- Next add the butter and shortening a little at a time and pulse until the mixture is coarse.
- Gradually add the water through the chute - while pulsing.
- The pastry dough will mix very quickly.
- Remove it from the bin - be careful with the blade!
- Wrap into two evenly shaped balls of pastry dough and cover with plastic wrap
- Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- You are ready to roll out your piecrust!
Notes
You can freeze the pastry dough as well. Or if you leave it in the refrigerator longer than 30 minutes - let it sit out for 30 minutes, before you start to roll it.
