Graham Cracker Crust

Name: Graham Cracker Crust
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 9 inch crust
Ingredients: 3 cups graham cracker crumbs; 3/4 cup butter, melted; 1 cup light brown sugar or 1 cup white sugar, for less sweet crust

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Submitted by MommyMakes

"This is a great graham cracker crust, not dry or crumbly. It is sweet, almost like caramel. I recommend filling it with Recipe #115634. This will make a 9 inch crust but you can easily adjust it to make a taller 10 inch cheesecake crust."

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Ready In:: 10mins
Ingredients:: 3
Yields:: 3 9 inch crust

ingredients

3 cups graham cracker crumbs
³⁄₄ cup butter, melted
1 cup light brown sugar or 1 cup white sugar, for less sweet crust

directions

Mix ingredients together.
Press onto bottom and up sides of pan until desired size.
Bake silver pan at 350F for 8-10 minutes, or dark pan at 300F for 8-10 minutes.
Fill!

Questions & Replies

K

If I'm using this to make a cheesecake, do I cook the crust by itself then fill it with the cheesecake then cook again? Or do I fill it before it's cooked so it only cooks once? Will it get too brown?

Kelly H.
L

How many graham crackers for 1 cup of crumbs?

lpalmiere47
D

I made a lemon blueberry cheesecake desert. It was 13 x 9. The filling was great, but graham cracker crust much too hard. The crust recipe was 3 cups graham cracker crumbs, 3/4 cups melted butter and 1/4 cup sugar baked at 350 for 14 minutes. I let it cool completely, added the filling then refrigerated overnight. Crust is so hard I can't cut it with a fork! Please help! Thanks!

dadonnell
T

Making a graham cracker crust for individual paper cup cake holders for mini key lime pies. Do i bake the the crust in the holders before putting the key lime mixture in the baking cups?

tanddtavern
L

Can I use a square pan for cheese cake.

Lorayne A.

Reviews

B

This was really good and really easy! I used cinnamon graham crackers from Trader Joe's and the result was REALLY good!

BurgundyS
T

I used this recipe for my pumpkin pies this Thanksgiving and it was perfect! I did not bake the crusts beforehand since it takes so long to bake pumpkin pies. Everyone raved and it was SO easy!

truth70x7
M

So good and easy! I added some cinnamon, fresh grated nutmeg and.a pinch of salt. Made the whole house smell great and went.lovely with my tart lime pie :)

Momster Mash
K

I baked it with the filling in it. It turned out great!

kdg123
J

Smells incredible coming out of the oven! You don't get that with store-bought. Pretty quick and easy. I just used one whole package (I think it's 8 whole crackers), which gave me a little more than 1 c., but it turned out ok.

jimnyo

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Tweaks

J

Like the other commenters, I used about 1 1/2 cups of crushed graham crackers. When measuring the sugar, I did about a 65/35 brown to white sugar ratio. I also added about 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.

jesstacles
C

I should have read the tweak before making this crust. Definitely need more crackers to go up the edge of the pan.

Cathy H.
K

Added a few extra crackers.

Kat's Mom