I love a good pie crust. I have this great recipe for a graham cracker crust that is easy to make and yummy to eat. Once you have this recipe, it can be used with lots of delicious desserts.
Homemade Graham Cracker Crust Recipe:
- 1 ½ c. graham crackers – 1 package of 9-10 crackers
- 1/3 c. sugar
- 6 Tbs. butter, melted
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
1. Crush your graham crackers until really fine. I like to let my kids help with this part, adding them into a sealed plastic bag and crushing them with a rolling pin.
2. Mix all the ingredients together.
3. Using a the back of a spoon, press your mix into a pie pan. Make sure to press it up the edges as well, making it nice and even all across.
4. Bake your pie crust for 7 minutes in a pre-heated oven of 375°.
A few good Pie fillers for your homemade crust:
- Cheesecake, Oreos with ice cream, pudding, fruit and whipped cream
Fill your crust with slightly melted Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream and then re-freeze it. You may need to thaw it out a little before cutting and serving. (I love Dreyer’s 1/2 the fat ice cream, but I seem to eat twice as much!)
Written by Marie LeBaron
Marie LeBaron is the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes. Always having a love of crafts, she enjoys getting messy with glue and glitter. There’s always some sort of project going on, her kitchen counter is often cluttered with crafts. When she’s not crafting and creating with her kids, she loves to run, read, and blog! Read other posts by Marie
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OH….YEAH! Love the pumpkin ice cream in the homemade crust.
I bought a graham cracker crust the other day because they were super cheap at Target. Never again. I remembered why I had never bought one before. Homemade is SO much better!
I could seriously just eat this pie crust by itself.
My favorite graham cracker pie crust filling is pink lemonade ice cream filling. 1 small can of pink lemonade to 1/2 gallon of ice cream with whipping cream mixed in as well. Soften the ice cream first, add the lemonade and whipping cream and stir. Put it back in the graham cracker crust and freeze firm. Serve after frozen.
Yummy
I don’t like the standard rolled out flour based crust on pumpkin pies, so I use Graham Cracker crusts..now I will make my own! They’re getting SOOO expensive!
I love this recipe! This is the first time that I have ever made a homemade graham cracker crust! This was wonderful!!! No more store bought for me!
This was a great pie crust. I have never made one until now and I think I will use this recipe forever, and it is super easy. Thanks a lot! Coconut cream with sliced Cara Cara Oranges sounded like a good filling! Thanks again!
I have made homemade crusts before, but this one tastes absolutely the best! I think it is the addition of the cinnamon that makes a difference. It was a wonderful crust for my lemon icebox pie.
I have never made a pie crust from scratch. But this one sounds easy enough that even I can do it. I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks
Hi!
I live in germany so I have to use german crackers, will write you again how it turns out! greetings to eveybody who loves a good PIE!!!
I was looking for a homemade pie crust for my special chocolet pie and I Came here, I love trying new pie crusts!
P.S. I am 9 years old and whenever I say who Wants pie Everyone says ”I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
P.S.S. My real name is Elizabeth Joy Hancock
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This looks like a great crust recipe to have on-hand for a million different pies and cakes. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the great recipe!! I just used it yesterday to make a delicious pie.
I made this yesterday for the kids but used capn crunch crunchberries and filled it with raspberry yogourt and raspberry gelatin mixed with whipped cream and WOW! It was fantastic! Won’t ever buy desserts again. Thanks for helping out!
used this pie crust recipe for a pumpkin pie and added pecans mixed in the crust.
Hey so mine didn’t really come out as planned as in it’s not really a crust as it is just graham cracker crumbs with pudding on top.
Sounds great! It’s very close to the crust of the recipe for this wonderful and delicious Key Lime Pie at this restaurant I work in. TIP: The more BUTTER you use, the BETTER!!
I have made it similar to this before but it seemed to dry. So I gave this a try and OMG… its AWESOME!!!! My filling was Philly Cream Cheese,Vanilla Pudding with Cool Whip on top and then ya top it with whatever fruit slices you would like. I prefer strawberries.
Thank You Again
P.S.It was a last minute Christmas desert.. lol
hope its good with bread crumbs dont have graham crackers let you know
This is a good recipe to use for banana cream pie too… just substitute the graham crackers for Vanilla Wafers. =)
looking for the recipe for Lemon Mousse on a graham cracker crust. I know it has Eagle Brand milk, eggs, lemon juice — but sure of the rest! Help
Cindy,
Hope you can still use this. It is THE BEST lemon pie…EVER. My mom made this…any other lemon pie just tastes so artificial to me now.
18 graham crackers, crushed; 1/4 cup sugar and 1 stick of butter, melted. Press into pie pan and bake for 10 mins. at 350.
Mix together:
juice from 3 lemons
1 can eagle brand milk
1 egg yolk (save whites for topping)
Pour mixture into crust.
Beat 2 egg whites (room temp) until frothy and while beating, add 1/4 tsp. creme of tarter. Beat appr.
10 mins. (yep, you hear right….10 mins.)
Slowly add 1/2 cup sugar while still beating and 1/2 tsp. vanilla. Meringue should peak. Top pie with meringue mixture and brown carefully for appr. 15 mins. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours prior to serving.
Hope this is what you were looking for…it’s wonderful!
SOo…strawberry pie is my fav but it never has enough crust! if it were up to me, there would be equal parts crust/strawberries! i’m gonna double it up…we’ll see what happens! i’m gonna have to find a huge pic pan hehe!!
i meant *pie pan.
i think its delicious !!!
Literally have it in the oven as we speak and this is so unbelievable yummy! I can only pray the cheese cake part turns out half as good as the crust!!!!…thank you :)
This was a delicious crust!! I loved it!! It makes a delicious banana cream pie crust!!!!
thanx!! :) :) :) :)
hi, I guess the graham cracker pie crust should cool before adding chocolate pudding pie mix?
Why when i use a graham cracker crust to make cookie bars, do I end up with the crust sticking and my bars cannot be cut into nice even squares?
That is a great question. I’ve never made this crust for bars, only pies. But give it a try and see what happens. Let me know how it goes if you use it.
I think this is the best way for enjoy the crakcer crust. Really nice post!
Couldn’t find my recipe for the crust so I got on line and found this one. I made this crust and it’s the best I’ve ever made. My family calls it the cookie crust. Excellent with pie filling or ice cream filling like an ice cream sandwich cookie. Yum!
I am going to use this recipe for my pumpkin cheesecake that I am making for Thanksgiving! I didn’t realize making my own graham cracker crust would be so easy!
What recipe do you use for pumpkin pie and this crust?? It sounds amazing!!
Will this work for Pecan Pie? Apple Pie?