How do you use premade pie crust?

Just unroll the dough, press it into a pie pan, add your favorite fillings and bake. Pillsbury makes flaky, homestyle pie crust as easy as…well, pie. Each package contains two ready made pie crusts with the homemade Pillsbury goodness you’ve come to know and love.

Can you blind bake a Pillsbury pie crust?

For the instructions below, we’ve used a prepared, refrigerated Pillsbury pie crust from the grocery store, but this blind baking method will also work for a pie crust made from scratch. Place your pie crust round in the center of a deep-dish pie plate, crimping the edges.

What do you do with a frozen pie crust?

Here’s my advice if you have a severely cracked frozen pie crust: Ignore it: If you’re baking a custard pie (like pumpkin pie or lemon meringue pie), it can act like a glue to hold the crust together. Gently reattach the broken piece of crust to the main crust. And bake the pie without doing anything special.

How do you make pie crusts tender?

Yes, but simply adding water to your bowl of flour and fat encourages you to add too much. The dough won’t come together, so what do you do? Add another couple of tablespoons of water. In my ongoing experience, if you add enough water for the dough to be lovely and silky and pliable – you’ve added too much.

Can you put premade pie crust in oven?

Use premade graham cracker pie crust for every pie you want to tackle. It is easier than any other pie crust and tastes good with any flavor pie – sweet and savory. Finally, it can be baked but does not need to be baked.

What can I do with a ruined pie crust?

10 Ways to Use Leftover Pie Dough

1. Bite-size quiches.
2. Flaky cinnamon rolls.
3. Mini empanadas.
4. Nutty cookies.
5. Wee pains aux chocolats.
6. Sundae toppings.
7. Homemade cheese crackers.
8. Exotic pigs in blankets.

Why is my pie crust cracking when I roll it out?

Your dough is too crumbly. If your pie dough breaks and crumbles when you try to roll it out, it’s probably too dry. This is a relatively easy fix. Just sprinkle some cold water over the dough with your fingers and work it in—gently! —until the dough comes together.

Is butter or Crisco better for pie crust?

The pros: Shortening has a higher melting point than lard or butter, so it’s easy to incorporate into pie dough and roll out. It’s also helpful when making any kind of decorative pie crust, because doughs made with shortening hold their shape the best during baking.

Why do you add vinegar to pie crust?

One ingredient that you can add to a pie crust that is a little more unusual is vinegar. Vinegar helps tenderize pie dough because it slightly inhibits gluten development, leading to a crust that is flakier and easier to work with.