How To Make Blind Baked Pie Crust
This pie crust recipe teaches you how to easily bake it, to yield a buttery, flaky, and rich crust that goes perfectly with your favorite pie recipes!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1*frozen pie crust,(see Recipes Notes for Recipe)
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Make sure to start with a frozen crust, not defrosted. The crust should been in the freezer for at least 30 minutes, preferably an hour.
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Use heavy duty aluminum foil, pressing the foil against the sides and bottom of the crust, allowing the foil to extend by a couple of inches on two opposing sides.
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Fill the crust to the top with pie weights.
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Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 to 50 minutes, if making a crust for a pie that you will cook further, like a quiche. Bake for 60 to 75 minutes, if making a crust for a pie that will need no further baking.
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Remove the pie shell from the oven. Using the excess foil on 2 sides of the pie shell, lift out the pie weights from the pie shell.
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Fill with pie filling, serve, and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Check out this All Butter Pie Crust Recipe to try out with this technique!
Nutrition
- Calories: 145.58kcal
- Fat: 8.33g
- Saturated Fat: 3.14g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.34g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.08g
- Carbohydrates: 16.72g
- Fiber: 0.59g
- Protein: 0.97g
- Sodium: 133.80mg
- Calcium: 3.27mg
- Potassium: 23.88mg
- Iron: 0.33mg
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