Gluten-Free Almond Flour Pie Crust

This almond flour pie crust is a recipe that originally came with a chocolate pie. The chocolate pie was pretty good. However, since I have so many better ones I decided to just keep the gluten-free crust recipe which you can use with any cream pie.

The recipe is adapted from Kate McDermott's Art of the Pie, a Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings and Life. It's a combination cookbook and autobiography which doesn't lack for recipes and reads like a cooking class with a trusted baker friend. So far I've only tried one pie recipe with the almond flour crust, but there are plenty of others to tackle.

Almond Flour Pie Crust

The crust is made by mixing nut flour, sugar, salt and butter and just pressing it into the pan. You can use almond meal, almond flour or a mixture of different nut flours such as almond and hazelnut. The crust below is a blanched almond flour crust so it's kind of pale, but it was very tasty nonetheless.

Here is the recipe. I've yet to try baking this, but I think baking it at 350 for about 6 minutes would enhance the flavor even more.

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Recipe

Almond Flour Pie Crust

Anna

A gluten free pie crust made with almond flour, sugar, salt and flavoring. If you'd like more almond flavor, you can add about ¼ teaspoon of almond extract.

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 minute min

Total Time 31 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Ingredients

 

Almond Flour Crust

• 2 cups almond meal or blanched almond flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon optional
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter or salted lightly melted

Instructions

 

• Mix the almond flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon together in a large bowl, then pour in melted butter. Stir until moistened.
• Press mixture into bottom and up sides of a 9 inch pie dish. Chill for 2 hours.

Notes

haven’t tested this filling with gluten-free flour, but I think using 1 T. of gluten free flour blend instead of wheat flour would work, should you need to make the flour gluten free. The filling is already pretty stiff from the cornstarch and egg yolks. You might be able to get away with just leaving it out completely. For the crust, you can use almond meal, almond flour or a mixture of other nut flours.

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