Hey you. Yeah, you. In the baking aisle with a premade graham cracker pie crust in your arms. Stop! Put down the pie crust. Did you know it's easy to make a homemade graham cracker crust? It's seriously the most simple pie crust around — if you have a food processor. All you have to do is pulse the crackers with butter and sugar until the mixture is fine and moist. Then you press into a pie pan, bake, and voila! Pie crust is ready for any type of filling. This recipe is quite versatile. Don't limit yourself to just graham crackers. Wafer cookies, oreos, gingersnaps: These ingredients can be used to make a quick and delicious pie crust. Now the only thing you have to worry about is what to fill it with. To check out the recipe please keep reading.

Graham Cracker Crust
From Martha Stewart
Graham Cracker Crust

Ingredients

6 1/2 ounces graham crackers (12 crackers), finely ground (1 1/2 cups)
2 1/2 ounces (5 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Pulse graham cracker crumbs, butter, sugar, and salt in a food processor until combined.
  3. Firmly press crumb mixture into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch pie dish. Bake until crust is fragrant and edges are golden, 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

Makes one 9-inch pie crust.


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