Anna's No Fail Pie Crust

Like most good marriages, my dad and step-mom have their own domains.

When it comes to cooking, my dad's domain is breakfast and grilling.  Anna's domain is everything else.  

As I write, my dad is outside at the grill, my step-mom is checking on her apple pie, and I am drooling as the most divinely mouth-watering scents waft through the entire house.

So, in honor of Thanksgiving and apple pie and all things good and delicious, I thought tonight I would share with you Anna's no fail pie crust recipe.

All you need is a food processor, one and a half cups of flour, one stick of butter, and half a package of Philadelphia cream cheese.  Put it all together in the food processor, and pulse it until it forms a dough.  (Don't over-mix!)  Then put it in a plastic bag and put it in the fridge for an hour or so.  Then roll it out.  And there you go!  Perfect dough!   Enough for one two-crust pie, or two one-crust pies.

So simple.  So easy.  So good.  

Now, Bobby Flay would say the butter has to be ice cold.  Anna believes room-temperature butter and cream cheese are better.

I say, the proof is in the pudding.  And the pudding in this case is Anna's pie crust. Which rocks.  

So, ice cold butter or not... you're gonna love it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Goodness knows, I've got a lot to be thankful for this year.  

I hope all of you do, too. 

Comments

[samatwitch]

Happy Thanksgiving from this Canadian (who celebrated Thanksgiving last month) ;)

[Shannon]

I just broke down and used ready made pie crust for my apple pie because I couldn't face the thought of trying to make my own dough. This sounds so simple - next time I'm going to try Anna's recipe, instead.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Cath]

I would love to try this but I have no idea what size of Philadelphia you mean - here they come in about 5 different sizes - help please!

Happy Thanksgiving!

[actuary]

A standard-size package of Philadelphia cream cheese is 8 oz. I would guess the recipe uses that size, so half of that is 4 oz. Sarah?

[sarahfain]

Yes! I checked with Anna, and thats exactly right! Thanks!

[Gypsy]

The same question with a 'stick' of butter- for those us on the other side of the world, please?

[bibi]

oh, yum! so your appetite's back, you say?

[actuary]

In the U.S., butter comes in a 1 lb. package with four sticks to a pound. So a stick of butter is 1/4 pound of butter.

Often each stick is individually wrapped in some kind of wax paper, so a stick of butter is self-contained and needs no further measuring, cutting, breaking, etc.

[Rebecca]

Thank goodness I had read this post when I attempted to buy a premade crust on Thanksgiving day (silly me). I remembered this simple recipe, it was easy, and it turned out great! Thanks so much for sharing!