What keeps you from making pie? For me, it was the dread of dealing with cold butter … grating it, cleaning the grater, cutting the butter in, and the mystery of just how much ice cold water to sprinkle in.

I’ve had great success swapping whipping cream for butter in my whipping cream biscuits recipe – in fact, I’ll never use butter to make biscuits again. So I started thinking, what if I could do the same for a pie crust?

After many attempts and fine tuning, I’m very pleased with this recipe. It is much easier and faster to make than a butter crust, and costs about $1 a crust. And no cheese grater to deal with. Enjoy!

Whipping Cream Pie Crust

Recipe by Ana White Course: All Recipes, Breakfast Ideas, Desserts and Baked Goods, Pies, Crumbles, Buckles

2

crusts

Prep time

10

minutes

Quick and easy pie crust recipe using whipping cream instead of butter. Makes a total of two crusts, either one top and one bottom, or two bottoms.

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Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cups 1-1/2 heavy whipping cream

• 1 tsp 1 vinegar

• 1 tsp 1 salt

• 1 tsp 1 sugar

• 1-1/2 cups 1-1/2 flour (all purpose) + flour for dusting

Directions

• MAKE DOUGH: Mix whipping cream with vinegar, salt and sugar. Add in flour. Do not over mix.
• ROLL PIE CRUST: Heavily flour work surface and rolling pin. Roll half the dough out into a large circle, a couple inches larger than the pie pan.
• TRANSFER TO PIE PAN: Roll dough up (like rolling a cinnamon roll) and then unroll over the pie pan. Press in place and trim excess. If no top crusts, finish edges.
• TOP CRUST: Heavily flour the surface and rolling pin and roll out remaining dough. Transfer the dough to the to of the pie and finish edges.

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Notes

• VINEGAR? The vinegar helps the dough stay tender, and you can’t taste it. You don’t have to use vinegar though, the crust will just be a little tougher.
• Don’t overwork the dough. It will be sticky as mixed, so heavily flouring the surface and the rolling pin will add extra flour to make it manageable
• Costco sells whipping cream by the half gallon! I keep whipping cream on hand now and use it in all sorts of creative ways. Thank you Costco!

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