Flaky Cream Cheese Pie Crust

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By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Rose Levy Beranbaum says this crust holds its signifier amended than immoderate different pastry dough. Keeping the elements arsenic chill arsenic imaginable helps marque a cleanable pastry crust. Wear food-safe latex gloves, and/or grip the dough arsenic small arsenic possible. You tin support a vessel of crystal h2o adjacent the enactment aboveground to dip your hands into; that volition assistance support them cool.

This look substitutes acold dense pick for the h2o utilized successful Beranbaum's archetypal Perfect Flaky and Tender Cream Cheese Pie Crust recipe, arsenic printed successful her "The Pie and Pastry Bible" (Scribner, 1998).

From cookbook writer and baking teacher Rose Levy Beranbaum.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-10 (makes capable for a 9-inch two-crust pie)

1 1/2 sticks (170 grams/6 ounces) acold unsalted butter
2 cups positive 3 tablespoons (285 grams) pastry flour
1/4 spoon good salt
1/4 spoon baking powder, preferably Rumford oregon different non-sodium-based brand
4 1/2 ounces (128 grams) acold pick cheese, chopped into 3 to 4 pieces
3 tablespoons acold dense cream
1 tablespoonful pome cider vinegar

Nutritional Facts

Per azygous crust

Calories
1344
Fat
90 g
Saturated Fat
54 g
Carbohydrates
117 g
Sodium
545 mg
Cholesterol
250 mg
Protein
17 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer and baking teacher Rose Levy Beranbaum.

Tested by Rose Levy Beranbaum.

Published March 12, 2026