My New, Favorite Oil Pie Crust Recipe

When Chuck begins harvesting honey for her cup pies- I became intrigued. I have never used honey in a pie crust recipe before and started thinking how it would best work. (go here to read about my Pushing Daisies recaps and recipes - from the point of view of a pie-a-holic)


I knew that it would be difficult to find the right consistency with a shortening recipe, so I opted to use the oil based recipe.

If you are unfamiliar with the delicious simplicity of the oil based pie crust, let me inform. You mix the five ingredients (recipe below) into the pie plate, and smash around the edges. Bake for a few and add your filling. Super simple, eh?

Now that I had resolved myself to this experiment, then came the difficult questions. How much to do you add? And, if you do add honey, do you still add sugar?

I decided that I would try two tablespoons and keep the sugar.

It was delicious.

Oil Pastry Recipe with Honey.

1½ cup of flour
½ cup of oil
2 tbsp of sugar
2 tbsp of cold water
2 tbsp of honey
½ tsp of salt

Add all ingredients to you pie plate. Mix together (preferably with a silicone spatula) and flatten around the edges.

Bake without filling at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until slightly golden.