Gingersnap Cookie Crumb Pie Crust
"This cookie crumb pie crust is for pie fillings that don't require baking. Jell-O offers a plethora of recipes that are simply folded into a crust, chilled, and served. The crust is excellent for pumpkin, sweet potato, and key lime pies. Recipe #401203, is awesome served as a pie in this crust. Just double the dip recipe, fold it into this baked and cooled crust, and serve immediately."
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
-
1 crust
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 36 gingersnap cookies, pulverized (about 2 cups)
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 egg white (optional)
directions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Pulverize the ginger snap cookies in a food processor if you have one, if not, you can crush them with a rolling pin.
- Combine the first three ingredients and mix well.
- Using your fingers, press the mixture into the bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch pie pan.
- To smooth and pack the crust, place another 9-inch pie pan down into the crust (as if you are stacking the pans) and press firmly.
- Brush the crust with egg white. (optional).
- Bake about 10 minutes at 375° or less. Watch closely as you do NOT want to overcook this crust.
- Remove from the oven and cool before filling.
- Goes great with my Super Easy Pumpkin Spice Dip recipe, or any pumpkin, sweet potato, or key lime pie that does not require baking.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Stoblogger
Allen, TX
I come from a very large family which attributed to my mother spending a great deal of her time in the kitchen cooking, cleaning, and preparing. I was fascinated at how she prepared wonderful dishes (especially desserts) without using a cookbook. We grew many of our own fruits and vegetables and my summers were spent washing jars and preparing fruit and vegetables for canning. I dreaded the mountains of green beans, tomatoes, peaches, etc., etc. that had to be picked, washed, peeled, snapped.... More than anything, I hated spending my summer washing jars!
But now, I wouldn't trade that kind of upbringing for anything. I'm glad I learned how to do all those things because it's becoming a lost art. It really was a simpler time then and I'm a much better person for knowing how to do all those 'old fashioned' things.
In my early years of learning to cook, I watched Julia Child on PBS every chance I got. I was so thrilled when I was about 11, my mother let me prepare Julia's Pastry Tarts. If I remember correctly they didn't turn out so well but it didn't matter.
Oddly, today, I enjoy reading cookbooks and recipes even more than actually cooking.
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